Allegra Stratton

Allegra Stratton is political correspondent for the Guardian in London. She attended Cambridge University, studying archaeology and anthropology. She has worked as a producer for the BBC, on the foreign desk at the Times and written for the Independent and the New Statesman.

She is also the author of the novel "Muhajababes", which explores the youth culture of the Middle East. While she did not coin the term "muhajababe" herself, she did penetrate the contradictions of modern life of young adults in Muslim societies. (The term arises from "mahajababe," itself a term for "veil.") [Laura Miller, "Here come the muhajababes!: How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today." salon.com July 10, 2008 http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/10/young_islam/index.html?source=newsletter] [Susan Easton, "Hijabs and Muhajababes " June 19, 2007 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21171]

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Articles and interviews

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/authors/allegra_stratton/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/allegrastratton

Book

*"Muhajababes" New York, Melville House, 2008 ISBN 1933633506