Samina Ali
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Indian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Samina Ali is an American author and activist born in India.[1] Her debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction.[2]
Career
She has served as the curator of Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art and Voices, a global, virtual exhibition for the International Museum of Women (IMOW), now part of Global Fund for Women.[3]
She is the co-founder of American Muslim feminist organization Daughters of Hajar.[4][5]
In 2017, she delivered a Tedx talk, What does the Quran really say about a Muslim woman's hijab? at the University of Nevada, defining the word "hijab" as it's used in the Quran. By 2020, the video had been viewed more than 8 million times.[6]
She is a blogger for HuffPost and The Daily Beast.[7][8]
Bibliography
Honors and awards
In 2004, Samina received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in fiction.[9] One year later, Madras on Rainy Days was awarded the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award in 2005,[10] and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in fiction.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In July 2004, Madras on Rainy Days was chosen as a best debut novel of the year by Poets & Writers magazine, and she was featured on the cover in July/August 2004 issue.[11]
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External links
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- Living people
- Writers from Hyderabad, India
- American people of Telugu descent
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- University of Oregon alumni
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Islamic fiction writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
- American women writers of Indian descent
- American women novelists
- American novelists of Indian descent