How to be a Bad Muslim
“The book is amazing. Mohamed Hassan is so talented. In How To Be A Bad Muslim, he pulls off that rare trick of taking a poet's grace and applying it to his essays, making them as beautiful to read as they are illuminating.”
– Dominic Hoey
“Mohamed’s is a fresh voice but most of all, an important voice. We already have his poetry, which has been rightly recognised, but now New Zealand literature is all the richer for his elegant and powerful non-fiction.”
– Rachael King
“These essays navigate migration and grief, Islamaphobia and love, family and society. Kaleidoscopic in tone, they sear at both the personal and the political level, and open up the immigrant experience. There is no other book like this published in Aotearoa. It refreshes our views of the world and of each other.”
– Paula Green
How to be a Bad Muslim is an essay collection published with Penguin Random House blending storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the 21st Century. Available May 31.