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Revolutions
Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s artwork + and –, Revolutions asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable – make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
Published March 18, 2025
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Hajer Mirwali
2 books12 followersHajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has been published in The Ex-Puritan, Brick Magazine, Room Magazine, and Joyland.
IG: @hajermirwali
IG: @hajermirwali
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
May 31, 2025
Fascinating poems!
Thank you to the publisher for my copy!
Thank you to the publisher for my copy!
May 18, 2025
On my 10th read since receiving it a week ago.
Revolutions is a searing poetic excavation of shame and pleasure, of girlhood and muslim daughterhood. with precision and vulnerability, it flips the script on surveillance. where once the gaze sought to contain, here it is reclaimed, reshaped. where once xxxxxxx was hidden and silenced, xxxxxxx is seen and heard. Mirwali's collection insists: young muslim and arab women - despite being under both external and internal censor, or perhaps even in SPITE of it - deserve agency, pleasure, and the right to inhabit their bodies fully. a poignant, necessary revolution in verse.
"xxxxxxx wants to be good. I want to be good too xxxxxxx. Sometimes we are. xxxxxxx there is only one system of Mothers and daughters."
- also i heard the author is acc super hot and genius level smart xoxoxoxoo
Revolutions is a searing poetic excavation of shame and pleasure, of girlhood and muslim daughterhood. with precision and vulnerability, it flips the script on surveillance. where once the gaze sought to contain, here it is reclaimed, reshaped. where once xxxxxxx was hidden and silenced, xxxxxxx is seen and heard. Mirwali's collection insists: young muslim and arab women - despite being under both external and internal censor, or perhaps even in SPITE of it - deserve agency, pleasure, and the right to inhabit their bodies fully. a poignant, necessary revolution in verse.
"xxxxxxx wants to be good. I want to be good too xxxxxxx. Sometimes we are. xxxxxxx there is only one system of Mothers and daughters."
- also i heard the author is acc super hot and genius level smart xoxoxoxoo
May 12, 2025
This book changed my life. It is the most beautiful exploration of Arab girlhood. Can’t wait to read it a million more times.
May 11, 2025
One of the best, if not the best poetry books I've read! So touching and written so beautifully!
January 19, 2026
Radical sculpture through language.
Miriam Richer and I chatted with Hajer on Craftwork: listen here.
Miriam Richer and I chatted with Hajer on Craftwork: listen here.
February 1, 2026
G E N I U S
the way the words popped off the page
Def a collection worth rereading and digging deeper
the way the words popped off the page
Def a collection worth rereading and digging deeper
May 11, 2025
Might be the best work of poetry ever conceived, I'm on read sixteen and it just gets better and better 🔥 🔥 🔥
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