{"product_id":"taslm-we-are-the-prophets-poems-on-a-coptic-girlhood-9781774151860","title":"Tasl\u0026#x012b;m: We Are the Prophets: Poems on a Coptic Girlhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume of pithy, defiant poetry and prose explore the burden of \u003ci\u003etaslīm\u003c\/i\u003e--an oral transmission of heritage and ancestral knowledge--on Coptic Orthodox women. These poems highlight the ways in which Coptic women navigate the responsibilities of transmitting ancestral knowledge while reckoning with its costs: deferred joy and pleasure until the afterlife, an almost compulsory notion of motherhood, and a gendered comportment of sacrifice and submission, even in diaspora. \u003ci\u003eTaslīm\u003c\/i\u003e in the Christian minority of Egypt becomes an even more rigid bind in immigrant communities abroad. This book is ultimately a feminist manifesto for freedom, and the choice to live and desire out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774151860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Carolyn Ramzy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45396519780533,"sku":"9781774151860","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ca43e87a-1bd5-46de-9cfc-73dbd69f0609.jpg?v=1747750175","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/taslm-we-are-the-prophets-poems-on-a-coptic-girlhood-9781774151860","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}