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Researching The Muslim Diaspora: Towards Developing New Approaches Of Reading, Esmaeil Zeiny

Esmaeil Zeiny

This paper discusses the current postgraduate level research into the corpus of Muslim Diaspora at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics which reflects the increasing interests into the corpus by students from within and outside the country. The first research focuses on minority Muslim women writers who reside in different host countries: Standing Alone by Indian American, Asra Q. Nomani, We are a Muslim, Please by Pakistani British, Zaiba Malik and The Land of Invisible Strangers by Pakistani British, Qanta A. Ahmed. In these narratives the Muslim women’s selves often face competing binary discourses of Islam and the West/Orientalism. …