Revolutions

By Hajer Mirwali

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 Er n Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772016500
• ISBN13: 9781772016505
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"