Issue 03: MUZHGAN SAMARQANDI
Issue 03: MUZHGAN SAMARQANDI
MUZHGAN SAMARQANDI: The Reed Flute’s Friend
Meet Muzhgan Samarqandi, an Afghanistani broadcaster and mother who is making Aotearoa New Zealand home with her young family.
She tells her own story in Issue 03, one where Kiwis tell her to shut up and be grateful or go home, of being stereotyped as a mail-order bride, and of the connection she has found with Māori people, a relationship that reaches outside Western notions of who is welcome to live where.
Muzhgan recalls her family’s migration history, one that began 800 years ago in the time of Ghengis Khan. Her writing is exacting and compassionate, and there’s plenty of joy, too.
$25NZ Aotearoa New Zealand / €16 Rest of world
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Digital edition for blind and low vision readers available here
In this issue
IN THIS ISSUE WE:
Eat Qabuli Pulao from Muzhgan’s upcoming cookbook
Meet Bangladeshi-born hip-hop artist ABRZY
Annotate the lyrics of Immigration New Zealand’s call waiting music (inexplicably written by its own staff!)
Explore an Indigenous approach to immigration policy
Call out ableist immigration policy that dehumanises disabled migrants
Offer our suggestions for building the migrant utopia we all want
Limited edition print: 88 pages, full colour, 165 x 240 mm
