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I completed my PhD in Creative Writing in 2025 and my novel, Daughters of the Nile won the Unbound Firsts Writers of Colour Award and is a New Arab ‘Best Book of 2024’
Daughters of the Nile has featured in Harpers Bazaar Arabia, The New Arab, Dubai’s Mojeh Magazine and DIVA Magazine. My jokes have featured in Channel 4’s Only Jokes a Muslim Can Tell, BBC Radio, BBC Asian Network and BBC Period Dramas.
I received the Runner Up Prize for the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished prize 2020.
A bold multi-generational debut from Zahra Barri, exploring themes of queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
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