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Sabyn Javeri Jillani

Sabyn Javeri Jillani

Sabyn Javeri - Jillani is the author of Hijabistan (Harper Collins, 2019) and the novel Nobody Killed Her (Harper Collins, 2017). She teaches literature, and writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Waiting for Yesterday

Posted on Monday, Jan 25, 2021 1:25AMMonday, January 25, 2021 by Sabyn Javeri Jillani

by Sabyn Javeri Jillani In April 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote in the Financial Times, “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine the world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” Her words reminded me of the state of Barzakh,…

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Matters of the Heart

Posted on Monday, Oct 5, 2020 1:20AMMonday, October 5, 2020 by Sabyn Javeri Jillani

by Sabyn Javeri Jillani Sometimes it’s the anatomical heart, a muscle the size of a fist, pumping furiously to keep us alive, at other times it is the beating of the metaphorical heart that leads us astray. Fact or fiction, real or symbolic, the heart is central to the story of our lives. The heart is…

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Beauty, Lies & Sontag

Posted on Monday, Aug 10, 2020 1:45AMMonday, August 10, 2020 by Sabyn Javeri Jillani

by Sabyn Javeri Jillani ‘To be a woman is to be an actress’, writes Susan Sontag in her 1972 essay The Double Standards of Ageing. She is referring to the beauty norms that expect women to freeze ageing while levying no such expectations on men. As the popular saying goes, men become wiser with age…

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Skin Deep

Posted on Monday, Jul 13, 2020 1:35AMMonday, July 13, 2020 by Sabyn Javeri Jillani

by Sabyn Javeri Jillani In the early 2000s, when I was expecting my first child, I became acutely aware of ‘skin’. Not only had my skin stretched beyond imagination without splitting, but it had taken on a dark glow that made my brownness stand out amidst the light-skinned London neighbourhood I lived in. Pregnancy cravings…

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On Isolation

Posted on Monday, Jun 15, 2020 1:25AMMonday, June 15, 2020 by Sabyn Javeri Jillani

by Sabyn Javeri Jillani Now that we are witnessing a world that has withdrawn indoors, many people are reading plague literature, discussing Camus and Defoe, and reflecting on the nature of fear and contagion. But there is another kind of literature that lies neglected: stories that reflect the disconnect and dejection of seclusion -the literature…

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