Jun 7, 2022 · Muddy People is a very candid and entertaining memoir by Sara El Sayed, a young Egyptian Muslim woman who grew up in Australia. Her story telling is light and simple, but the cultural truths and implications of the overt racism and 'otherness' that she and her family have faced in this country really tug at the heart strings.

Muddy People is El Sayed's memoir of growing up Muslim, mostly in Australia, though her family is originally from Egypt. The book is composed of vignettes that range in tone from sad to humorous, and they are not strictly chronological.

‘With elegant lyricism, compelling urgency and a dark sense of humour, Muddy People by Sara El Sayed is an impressive debut memoir … El Sayed’s coming to voice reflects her journey of self-realisation, of understanding what it means to be a migrant millennial.’

Sep 21, 2022 · The ways in which we communicate – and miscommunicate – as Arab families is the crux of Egyptian Australian writer Sara El Sayed’s memoir Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age, which was published in Australia last year, and was recently released in the UK.

How do you find yourself without losing your family? A memoir about growing up, breaking the rules and negotiating culture, from a new Australian voice. Soos is coming of age in a household with a lot of rules. No bikinis, despite the Queensland heat. No boys, unless he’s Muslim. And no life insurance, not even when her father gets cancer.

Oct 13, 2021 · Muddy People by Sara El Sayed is an engaging, perceptively written memoir illuminating the challenges faced by Muslim girls growing up within secular society.

When her family falls apart, she comes to see her parents as flawed, their morals based on a muddy logic. But she will also learn that they are her strongest defenders. Sara El...

Aug 23, 2021 · Muddy People is a hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming yourself in an Egyptian Muslim family in suburban Brisbane. Sara, known to her family as Soos, is coming of age in a household with a lot of rules.

"By turns heartfelt, bitingly funny, and emotionally devastating, Muddy People is not your average coming-of-age tale. I loved this memoir of a young Egyptian-Australian girl growing up Muslim....