news | Wednesday May 7, 2025

Hot Off the Press! Revolutions Has Arrived!

It’s here! Revolutions, the debut book by Hajer Mirwali, has arrived and is available now at a bookstore near you! 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.

An excerpt from “January 23”:

“+ and –, I have come too far to feel nothing.

Wait for me in the dark room. Strip apart my
arms. Hear me change. Daughter of + and –.
Daughter. Daughter. More daughterly with
every rotation.

… Yes, a very good daughter who loves
her motherlands and her God.

A daughter more and less.

A daughter + and –.

Never the same twice.”

Working between a Palestinian, Iraqi, and feminist Canadian poetics, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles. Order your copy here.