Can a Muslim be punk rock? Gay? Feminist?

Hear author Michael Muhammad Knight discuss his new novel, The Taqwacores

Tuesday 16 March 2004
7pm
Finnegan Auditorium
Damen Hall
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.

The Taqwacores vividly depicts day-to-day life in a Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York. Characters include Rabeya, a burqa-clad riot grrl; Umar, a straightedge Sunni; Muzammil Sadiq, who struggles against orthodox Islamic homophobia; and Jehangir Tabari, a drunken Sufi saint who dreams of putting on a Muslim Punk show in Buffalo. In The Taqwacores, Michael Muhammad Knight combines the last two worlds you'd expect to see together. Both entertaining and serious, The Taqwacores tackles sex, drugs, and yes, rock ‘n’ roll, through the prism of observant (yet all-too-human) muslim mohicans and straight edgers.

“You don't expect Muslim lit to be so Hunter Thompson! And it has me hooked!" — Mohja Kahf, author, Western Representations of the Muslim Woman

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Cadence and Loyola Campus Greens.
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