‘At the age of thirteen, I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. 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.
Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina’s captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers her faith and herself.
A memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain’s leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman.
Shelina Janmohamed is a columnist for the Muslim News and EMEL magazine and regularly contributes to the Guardian., the BBC and Channel 4. She is much in demand as a commentator on radio and television and has appeared on programmes including Newsnight and The Heaven and Earth Show. Her award-winning blog, Spirit 21, is hugely popular. Love in a Headscarf is her first book.
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‘[Shelina’s] hilarious first book…charts her ten-year journey to find “The One”, Muslim style, with more than 50 dates and plenty of heartache, laughter and learning experience along the way.’
(Daily Mail )‘Janmohamed shows her desire to nudge her culture in a more enlightened direction, while at the same time offering an insight into the life of a British Muslim woman.’ (****)
(Sameer Rahim The Daily Telegraph )‘Irreverent and feminine… hovers somewhere between chick-lit and memoir’
(Laura Barton Guardian )‘A deliciously funny journey… witty and eloquent.’
(Remona Aly EMEL )‘An entertaining insight into what it means to be a young British woman’
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An exciting and captivating memoir about what it means to be young, looking for love and Muslim.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By z.
Format:Paperback
This book is very well written and kept me entertained. Shelina's quest to find her true love goes through hurdles that are easy to empathise with being a British Asian Muslim and utterly believable. I read from page 45 until the end in one night.
The whole process of "arranged" marriages deserves airing because most people think arranged means someone else chooses your spouse and you just agree. This is in fact not the case and Shelina's book gives a great insight into the process and how it works. Ultimately the choice is with the bride and groom and noone else.
The whole process of "arranged" marriages deserves airing because most people think arranged means someone else chooses your spouse and you just agree. This is in fact not the case and Shelina's book gives a great insight into the process and how it works. Ultimately the choice is with the bride and groom and noone else.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By N.
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I think I have found "The One" - I have fallen in love with this book! "Love in a Headscarf" is totally irresistable. I smiled, I giggled, I laughed, I cried, I gasped and nodded in agreement & recognition. Shelina has told "our" story - the story of the un-oppressed, queuing up at Starbucks, sitting next to you at the movie, sharing your office, walking past you in the street British, Asian, Muslim women who are so often ignored or mis-represented in literature today. It's the story of our real lives, our hopes and dreams, oh, and it's also the story of all the frogs we kiss en route to finally meeting our Prince Charming (who may, or may not, turn out to be John Travolta!). I urge you to read this positive and uplifting tale - with or without the cappuccino and cookies recommended by the author!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book is very readable, at times laugh-out-loud funny. It's thoroughly refreshing to read something that takes one beyond the usual cliches that surround Muslim women, and read about the genuine engagement of the author with her faith and culture(s). From the other side of the gender fence, many of her comments about the communities she writes about (Muslim and British) ring true, even if young Muslim men do come off pretty badly in some ways. That's because it's definitely not a man-bashing book, and the critique and thoughts the author advances are directed as much toward herself as anyone else. As a Muslim not brought up in a Muslim family, I would guess this would make a very good read for anyone interesting in learning about the human side of daily Muslim life without the politicised stuff that normally obscures it. It also makes good reading for any Muslim of whatever stripe who wants to be provoked to think about some important aspects of the fundamental rhythms and textures of our community - where they've come from and where they might need to go.
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