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Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman - by Anne Aly (Paperback)

 Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman - by  Anne Aly (Paperback)
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<p><strong>From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman</strong></p> <p/><p><strong>'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - <em>The Good Weekend</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also most probably the first parliamentarian to have seen <em>Zoolander</em> 23 times.</p><p> </p><p>'What am I doing here?' she asked herself as she was sworn in with her hand on her English translation of the Quran. </p><p> </p><p>It's a question the former professor has raised more than once since she arrived in Australia aged two bearing the name Azza Mahmoud Fawzi Hosseini Ali el Serougi. The answer is a fascinating and moving story of a Muslim girl growing up in suburban Australia in the seventies, a girl who danced the divide between the expectations and values of their parents' culture and that of their adopted land, and whose yardstick for 'a normal' Australian family was <em>The Brady Bunch</em>. </p><p>Told with warmth, humour and insight, <em>Finding My Place</em> is an irresistible story by an irrepressible Australian woman who has truly found where she belongs, and who continues to make her mark internationally and in public life.</p>

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