Fantastic news today that Zaiba Malik’s We Are a Muslim, Please has been longlisted for The Orwell Prize, Britain’s most pretigious award for political writing. Click here to read the full announcement.

‘[We Are A Muslim, Please] vividly conveys the secure by stifling atmosphere Malik left behind when she went to college…but it is to thoughtful people like Malik that the future belongs’ - Joan Smith, Independent

‘Award-winning journalist Zaiba Malik has made a name for herself with uncompromising investigations of corruption, prejudice and extremism.  Her autobiography, We Are A Muslim, Please takes us from her childhood in 1970s Bradford to her experience in a Bangladeshi interrogation chamber.  Few people are better placed to explore the issues facing Muslim women in Britain and the softness of the title …belies the hard-hitting nature of Malik’s work.  The final part of the book, a letter to one of the 7/7 suicide bombers, is particularly heartfelt and thought-provoking’ - Waterstone’s Books Quarterly