HOW TO BE A BAD MUSLIM: MOHAMED HASSAN (2022)

Auckland Writers Festival

Mohamed Hassan’s life has taken him from Cairo to New Zealand and on to Istanbul and London, covering the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Pacific as a journalist. Through it all he has developed a keen eye for questions of identity and culture, which he beautifully brings to bear in his non-fiction essay collection 'How to Be a Bad Muslim'. Ranging across surveillance, migration, language, Islamophobia and the Christchurch attacks, it is a compelling account of growing up Muslim in a post- 9/11 world, told with humour and astute observation. A former slam poetry champion and prize-winning podcaster, Hassan joins Mike McRoberts in conversation.