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The Flirtation of Girls announces Sara Saleh’s exquisite and defiant voice. She is a poet who knows herself and her world, stares oppression in its many faces, and envisages worlds both despite and without it.
- November 27, 2023
Laila (Laila Mourad), daughter of the wealthy Mourad Pasha (Suleiman Naguib), is a carefree college girl who loves to sing, dance, (Etmakhtary Ya Kheil/Trot, my Horse) spend time with her friends, and her bad-boy boyfriend Anwar (Mahmoud el-Meliguy).
Nov 28, 2023 · With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as they come into being amidst war, colonial and patriarchal violence, and exile and migration.
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Nov 28, 2023 · The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat is a debut collection of poetry from Sara M Saleh navigating the lives of Arab-Australian Muslim women.
Oct 24, 2023 · The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat, Sara M Saleh’s first published poetry collection, is a cathartic personal and political journey. Saleh sets the tone with the first few poems, saying in one of them, ‘Pain keeps travelling through lineage until one of us is ready to feel it.’.
Jan 22, 2024 · Divided into three parts – forgotten girls, flirty girls and girls who live forever – Saleh weaves her experiences with the history of her home countries. In doing so, she reminds us starkly that the past is not as distant as some would like it to be:
With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as they come into being amidst war, colonial and patriarchal violence, and exile and migration.
- Sara M Saleh