What If It Were You?
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What If It Were You?

A Collection of Human Rights PoetryBy Elizabeth Arif-Fear
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Length1h 40m

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A child bride paralysed by fear, a man trapped in a life of slavery, a couple imprisoned for simply loving one another, a woman who refuses to bow to social pressure. For many, such nightmares are unimaginable, however, across the world, these struggles are all too real. What If It Were You? draws back the curtain on the men, women and children who suffer in silence, giving a voice to those whose rights, freedom and wellbeing are so often compromised. The hard-hitting realism of Arif-Fear's poetry uncovers the reality of child marriage, modern slavery, Female Genital Mutilation and many other forms of abuse, and presents such issues in a way which is direct and uncompromising. From women struggling to break free from restrictive socio-cultural norms, to communities in conflict and under prohibitive rule, social cohesion and justice are often compromised in the name of religion, culture or for the purposes of money and politics. Arif-Fear uses her wealth of experience campaigning for human rights and a more just society to expose these global injustices through poetry based upon real people and real issues.

Audiobook details

GenrePolitics and Government
Length1 hr 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Dedication
24Hypocrisy Is Spelt with a Y
2Acknowledgments
25Idol of Oppression
3Foreword
26Binaries
4What If It Were You?
27Two-Faced Feminist
5I Am a Woman
28Blind Hearts
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6Cut
29Invisible
7Your Guilty Secret
30Warriors of Barbarity
8Covered
31Steps of Hate
9Free
32Angel beneath the Ground
10Double Standards
33Ya Suriya! (Oh Syria!)
11Family Reunion
34Shattering the Glass
12Dry Wounds
35My Prophet
13Strength
36Inhuman
14Fear
37Not You
15Why Do You Hate Me?
38Honour
16Fragile
39Undesirable Muslim
17Home
40The Jungle Never Dies
18Just Like You
41Weapon of War
19Hope
42#MeToo
20What Do You See?
43Kafir
21Empty Streets
44What Is Freedom?
22Coconut
45Further support and information
23I Am Not Human
46About the author

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