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Samina Ali

Samina Ali
Samina Ali is the author of Madras on Rainy Days, which won the French Prix Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is a public speaker, and her Tedx talk, “What the Qur’an Really Says About the Hijab,” currently has over 8 million views. Her writing has been featured in various outlets, from national NPR to The Economist.


Samina Ali on Writing Through the Fear

“Why are aspiring writers convinced that ‘real’ writers don’t struggle?”
November 27, 2024  By Samina Ali
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