Ep 3. Homegrown and The Diary of A Hounslow Girl with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar

Episode 3 - #BringAFeministFriend special on representations of Muslim girls, with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar talking about Homegrown and Hounslow Girl. Firdos Ali is a playwright, currently writing a musical which will be previewed at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Firdos is co-curator of the Bunker Without Borders, and has 2 pieces of work being staged at the Bunker on April 4th and 8th. Firdos' #FeministFaves were Deeya Khan of sister-hood.com, Edna Adan who founded a hospital for women and children in Somaliland, and anti-FGM campaigner Layla Hussein. Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar is a business woman, founder of perfume company The Scented Souq and writer of several books on Arabian and Islamic history. Shaneela's #FeministFave was Mona Eltahawy. We watched The Inconvenient Muslim - An Evening to Launch Homegrown at Conway Hall. Some of the publicity around the cancellation of the National Youth Theatre's production: The Guardian, Telegraph, Channel 4 and BBC. & The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Featuring Nyla Levy, directed by Sophie Moniram. We also watched a rehearsed reading of Coconut by Guleraana Mir, work in progress to look out for, which we'll be talking about more in the future.