Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure.

In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum's artwork + and –, Revolutions asks how young Arab women — who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable — make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.

(From Talonbooks)

Revolutions is available in March 2025.

Hajer Mirwali is a Toronto-based Palestinian and Iraqi writer. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Ex-Puritan, Brick Magazine, Room Magazine and Joyland. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph.