Kamila Shamsie
Biographic Data
| ID | 156481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamila Shamsie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamila |
| FAMILY NAME | Shamsie |
| SIGNATURE | SHAMSIE K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembering Sara Suleri
Librarians, rebels, property owners, slaves
This article argues that a great deal of the writing about women in al-Andalus is obscured either by patriarchal narratives or by a skewed Islam versus the west argument in which al-Andalus is made to stand in for one or the other to further a political agenda. Even so, the biographical dictionaries, fatwas, poems and other sources that exist allow at least a partial picture of women’s lives to emerge. Through considering the lives of two women –…
The Missing Picture
A novelist reflects on writing the story a photograph purports to tell and, sometimes, the one it doesn't
International Writing’
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broke
Winter
Librarians, rebels, property owners, slaves
This article argues that a great deal of the writing about women in al-Andalus is obscured either by patriarchal narratives or by a skewed Islam versus the west argument in which al-Andalus is made to stand in for one or the other to further a political agenda. Even so, the biographical dictionaries, fatwas, poems and other sources that exist allow at least a partial picture of women’s lives to emerge. Through considering the lives of two women –…
International Writing’
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broke
Winter
International Writing’
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broke
The Missing Picture
A novelist reflects on writing the story a photograph purports to tell and, sometimes, the one it doesn't
Librarians, rebels, property owners, slaves
This article argues that a great deal of the writing about women in al-Andalus is obscured either by patriarchal narratives or by a skewed Islam versus the west argument in which al-Andalus is made to stand in for one or the other to further a political agenda. Even so, the biographical dictionaries, fatwas, poems and other sources that exist allow at least a partial picture of women’s lives to emerge. Through considering the lives of two women –…
Remembering Sara Suleri
Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · Hispanic-African Historical Relations (1 work)