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Hanifa Deen Hanifa Deen i(A83826 works by)
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1 My Descent into Purple Hanifa Deen , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Purple Prose 2015; (p. 162-174)
1 5 y separately published work icon Ali Abdul v The King : Muslim Stories from the Dark Days of White Australia Hanifa Deen , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2011 Z1791799 2011 selected work biography Award winning author Hanifa Deen enters the wonderful world of the archives and discovers a tribe of men with a hidden history - men whose stories are rarely told: the 'Ghans', cameleers, 'sepoys', hawkers, herbalists, and pearl divers, known collectively as 'Mohammedans' in early Australian history.

'Mahomet Allum, wonder herbalist and ladies' man, bush battler Ali Abdul, the feisty Afghan Rock men, and Sam the republican pearl diver, are some of Deen's 'men from the archives'. To others they are troublemakers and 'lustful aliens'. Unwelcome and a threat to Australian workers, these are the dark strangers in the days of the White Australia Policy, when race was used to classify people and bar them from entering the country.

'This fascinating collection of narratives combines Deen's gift for storytelling with history and nostalgia as she takes the reader back into Australia's past. These stories may even help explain some of the moral ambiguities and strange ironies that trouble us today.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 y separately published work icon The Jihād Seminar Hanifa Deen , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2008 Z1791816 2008 single work non-fiction In March 2002, three Muslims attend an evangelical Christian seminar promoted to reveal the inner secrets of Holy Jihad. Shocked by what they hear, they convince the Islamic Council of Victoria to lodge a complaint against Catch the Fire Ministries, under a controversial new hate speech law.
2 1 y separately published work icon Caravanserai : Journey among Australian Muslims Hanifa Deen , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 Z1136283 1995 single work non-fiction
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