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(0)Dawn Bates
Looking at her younger brother and sister, she knew something bad had happened. The silence in the house was no longer a welcome relief; it was deafening, all encompassing.
Then the police came, and then a nice lady, then something about a new family.
Everything a blur, until she became lost in her own silent world of colour and canvas.
Being the unwanted child of a prostitute, life was never going to be easy.
Becoming a
...5) Walaahi – A Firsthand Account of Living Through the Egyptian Uprising and Why I Walked Away From Isl
Her breathing became shallow and laboured and the paramedics were talking about what was happening... "milligrams of this, heart rate dropping, breathing erratic... need to get there quick" all of it sounding as though she was back underwater where she belonged.
She imagined herself floating, sun on her face, bobbing along on the crest of the waves miles out to sea.
He said he loved her. Everything seemed perfect. She
...In this compelling duology, Dawn Bates shares with the world a rare and unique insight to what it means to be a 'Posh Paki' and a 'traitor' to those who knew her, her ethnicity, nation and her faith, simply because she embraced the faith of Islam at the age of 15 – without having ever met a Muslim!
Dawn shares how she discovered Islam and knew she wanted to become a Muslim, and the journey that followed.
Becoming 'revert' rather than
There are wifely duties, and there is obeying your husband. In public he was the kind hearted Pastor, the voice of reason and wisdom in those moments of need. Behind closed doors he was a monster, and the reign of terror he inflicted was worse than the devil himself.
Finding the courage and the strength to leave is one thing, taking that courage out on to the streets is another. No longer was it acceptable for women and girls to be mutilated,
He was outgoing, the shining star in the social firmament. She was reserved and timid as a mouse. He seemed to have it all; the notoriety, the love of the community, the successful business and the money that came with it. She rarely left the house and had the love of a man who protected her fiercely.
And then there was Pandora.
A defiant loner, quiet like her mother, she was obsessed with cold water, with holding her breath until she
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