Tofik Dibi

Een jonge vrouw van kleur begint op te vallen door haar scherpe commentaar op social media tegen institutioneel racisme in Nederland. Er gaat geen dag voorbij zonder dat ze een journalist, politicus, bekende Nederlander, bedrijf of tv-programma confronteert met zijn racistische vooroordelen. Algauw staat ze bekend als de meest beruchte social justice warrior in het land.0Het levert haar een grote schare fans maar ook de toorn van internettrollen op. Haar onlineactivisme begint echter langzaam zijn sporen achter te laten in de relaties met haar familie, vrienden en collega?s, en leidt tot een klopjacht die niet lijkt te stoppen tot ze een toontje lager zingt.0'Het monster van Woke Ness' is een beangstigende roman over de wanen van de dag op social media, die tot gruwelijke gevolgen kunnen leiden.

Het monster van Woke Ness

Djinn / druk 1

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament. From a young age, Tofik Dibi feels “it”—a spirit, or djinn, that follows him everywhere. Where “it” goes, “they” go—his classmates, his colleagues, all the people who fear and hate “it,” his homosexuality. The son of Moroccan immigrants, Dibi was elected to the Dutch Parliament in 2006 at just twenty-six years old. During his six years in office, he fought for the equal rights of Dutch Muslims against a political elite that cast them as misogynists, homophobes, and, after 9/11, terrorists. But Dibi himself never came out publicly as queer—until he wrote Djinn. A bestseller upon its publication in Dutch in 2015, it tells the poignant, at times heartbreaking, story of Dibi’s coming-of-age as a gay Muslim man with humor and grace. From his Amsterdam childhood to his experiences in New York City clubs and internet chatrooms to his unlikely political ascent, Djinn explores contemporary issues of race, religion, sexuality, and human rights in and beyond Europe. Yet it also promises readers who may not see themselves reflected in popular culture—like Dibi as a young man—an all-too-rare sense of visibility and recognition. Tofik Dibi is an author and playwright who served as Member of Parliament in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2012. Nicolaas P. Barr teaches in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington.

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