Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

It is an entertaining, fresh and un-missable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman. Love in a Headscarfis a light-hearted yet sensitive book with a hilarious twist from one of Britains leading female Muslim writers. You will put the book down at the end having found a new and unexpected friend in her. Smiling cheekily at you from under her headscarf, you may never have imagined what goes on in the life of Muslim women. Shelinas captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers herself and her faith. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Last week I published part 1 of this interview, in which Shelina Zahra Janmohamed talked.

Which is why Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s chick-lit cum memoir, Love In A Headscarf is more provocative at second glance. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim: Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf - she wants to fall in love and find her faith. The headscarf is fiercely contested territory with diametrically opposite meanings ranging from ‘oppressive’ to ‘liberating’ depending on who is standing on the soapbox. I find this novel, Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed very interesting and amusing in a sense that it is readable, has its own humor and very. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. a grapping and enjoyable read LEILA ABOULELA, Author of the translator, Minaret, and coloured lights At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. fresh, sweet, joyful and full of tender moments you make the reader wish they were you.a huge achievement.