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  "en": "Imtiaz Dharker — Big Issue North author Q&A (2017)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "حوار «بيغ إيشو نورث» مع إمتياز داركر ⁦(تشرين الأول 2017)⁩، وفيه توضح بلسانها أن وصفها لنفسها بأنها «مسلمة كالفينية إسكتلندية» ليس حديثا عن الإيمان.",
  "en": "Big Issue North's author Q&A with Imtiaz Dharker (October 2017), in which she explains in her own words that her 'Scottish Calvinist Muslim' self-description was not a statement about faith."
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  "title": "Author Q&A: Imtiaz Dharker",
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    "family": "Big Issue North",
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2017,
     10
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  "publisher": "Big Issue North, October 2017",
  "URL": "https://www.bigissuenorth.com/reading-room/2017/10/author-qa-imtiaz-dhaker/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "A magazine interview with the poet herself, read in full on the publisher's site on 1 November 2026. Asked about describing her upbringing as 'a Muslim Calvinist in faith', she answers that she described herself as 'a Scottish Calvinist Muslim adopted by India and married into Wales', and adds, in terms, 'I wasn't really talking about faith', explaining that the phrase refuses easy labels. It is the primary evidence that her famous self-description is an identity statement rather than an attestation of belief.",
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   "review": "published",
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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