The Girl Child

I grew up as a Muslim in Britain, was educated here and, in fact, teachers told girls at my school they should strive to be whatever they wanted in their lives, regardless of whether the profession was traditionally thought of as a boy's job. In history, however, it was a different story as the treatment …

Star Wars and Girl Power

When the first trilogy was ending it was well known George Lucas had envisaged a nine film epic of which the first three films released made up the middle trilogy. For my siblings and cousins and I Star Wars was a part of life. How did we feel about Star Wars? The day before the …