Rana Kabbani
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"I'm working on a sort of Muslim heritage in Europe that's been written out [...] what is going to be done with us? Are we going to be put in gas chambers? If we aren't, if a final solution isn't in the making for us, although I wonder about that after Bosnia, [...] then we have to digested into European life, we are Europeans, we've contributed to this continent and its culture." --Rana Kabbani, Into the European Mirror (1994), 41:15 |
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Rana Kabbani (born 1958) is a British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster who lives in London. Most famous for her works Europe's Myths of Orient (1986) and Letter to Christendom (1989), she has also edited and translated works in Arabic and English. She has spoken out against islamophobia ("Bible of the Muslim Haters", 2002), defining its historic roots in colonialism.
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She has written for Spare Rib, the International Herald Tribune, The New Statesman, The Guardian, British Vogue, The Independent, Al Quds al Arabi, and Islamica. She has made and contributed to many television and radio programmes for the BBC, on subjects such as literature, music, minority writes, Islamic culture, food, feminism, women’s rights, painting, and British politics.
Works
Books
- Europe's Myths of Orient: Devise and Rule, London: Pandora, 1986.
- Women in Muslim Society, University College, Cork. Department of Sociology. 1992
- Letter to Christendom, London: Virago, cop. 1989.
Articles
- "Bible of the Muslim haters" (2002)
See also
- Mahmoud Darwish (married to)
- Patrick Seale (married to)
- Syrian Turkmen
- Sabah Qabbani
- Syrians in the United Kingdom
- Write down, I Am an Arab (2014), a biographical documentary film about her first husband Mahmoud Darwish
