{"product_id":"taslm-carolyn-ramzy-9781774151860","title":"Tasl\u0026#x012b;m: We Are the Prophets: Poems on a Coptic Girlhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese poems by an author of Coptic (Egyptian Christian Orthodox) daughter of immigrants, depict, explore, and question the burden of \u003ci\u003eTaslim\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Commandments\") on Coptic girls. Taslim is the \"oral transmission of heritage and ancestral knowledge.\" The poems highlight the ways in which diaspora Coptic women navigate \u003ci\u003etaslīm\u003c\/i\u003e or the responsibilities of transmitting ancestral knowledge while reckoning with its costs: deferred joy and pleasure until the afterlife, an almost compulsory notion of motherhood, and a gendered comportment of ascetic and martyr living, even in diaspora. Taslim in the insecure Christian minority of Egypt became a rigid bind in the immigrant communities abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Ramzy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1774151863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781774151860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Carolyn Ramzy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747774320895,"sku":"9781774151860","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bce4de93-793b-4e13-a6a5-c313716f9034.jpg?v=1743584697","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taslm-carolyn-ramzy-9781774151860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}