Sep
15
5:30pm
Sufiya Ahmed and Mariam Khan on Noor-in-Nissa Inayat Khan
By Scholastic
Join author Sufiya Ahmed to talk about her new book Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan, in conversation with Mariam Khan, editor of It's Not About the Burqa.
It's 1940 and hundreds of families are forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to sit back and do nothing while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people. Having joined the war effort, she is soon chosen by prime minister Winston Churchill's team to fly undercover into France... Noor returns home - but this time, as a secret agent. Can Noor keep her true identity hidden, report her findings back to London and help the Allies win the war?
Noor-un-Nissa was one of the great heroines of the World War II, a wireless operator working undercover in Paris. Sufiya and Mariam will discuss her life, from how she was selected to be an SOE, to why she was awarded the George Cross. Do join us to hear about the remarkable life that should be included in every school's history lessons.
Sufiya Ahmed is the author of YA novel Secrets of the Henna Girl and a contributor to the bestselling non-fiction anthology It’s Not About the Burqa. In 2010, Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children. She has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author.
Mariam Khan is a British writer, journalist and activist. She is the editor of It's Not About the Burqa, an anthology of essays by Muslim women. She is a columnist at the i Paper, and has written for publications including the Metro, Stylist, and Huffington Post.
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