Ep2: Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan on Uprooting Islamaphobia

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet and educator disrupting understandings of history, race, knowledge and violence. She works to equip herself and others with the tools and faith to resist the unliveable conditions we find ourselves in, and work towards another reality.
In 2019 Suhaiymah’s debut poetry collection Postcolonial Banter (vervepoetrypre...) was published, featuring eight years worth of poetry including her viral poem This is Not a Humanising Poem ( • The Last Word Festival... ) which placed her as runner-up of the National Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2017 and has over two million views online. Postcolonial Banter critiques and troubles narratives about racism, systemic Islamophobia, the function of the nation-state and secularist visions of identity.
Her latest book, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (www.plutobooks...) was published with Pluto Press in 2022. The non-fiction work has been widely endorsed and is described as ‘our book’ by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Moazzam Begg, 'courageous' by rapper, Lowkey, 'one of the most exciting voices of her generation' by award-winning channel 4 journalist Fatima Manji, and 'fierce' by feminist activist Lola Olufemi.
In this interview, we talk about moving beyond acknowledging Islamaphobia and towards understanding its impact and doing something to bring it to an end. Suhaiymah talks about the work, research and experiences that have fuelled her recent book, and the importance of conversations like these taking place all over the world.
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