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World Service,1 min

Muslim author Leila Aboulela on her daughter's decision not to wear the headscarf

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Leila Aboulela discusses her novel Minaret, her story of exile, heartache, love and religious faith in which a young Sudanese woman called Najwa flees a coup d’etat with her mother and brother to London.

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