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name: Nadia Jamal
about: I currently work as a financial crime analyst at a global bank. Prior to this, I was a newspaper and digital journalist at Fairfax Media, starting my 15-year career at The Sydney Morning Herald as a reporter. I also held senior newsroom roles at Fairfax's smh.com.au and the Sunday newspaper, The Sun-Herald. After leaving journalism, I gained my qualifications to practise as a lawyer. My book, Headstrong Daughters, is about how Muslim women from a range of cultural backgrounds live in Australia. It covers diverse themes including segregated living rooms, Sunni-Shiite relationships, and inheritance rules. Headstrong Daughters is my second published book. My first book, The Glory Garage, covered the lives of teenage girls from a Lebanese Austr I currently work as a financial crime analyst at a global bank. Prior to this, I was a newspaper and digital journalist at Fairfax Media, starting my 15-year career at The Sydney Morning Herald as a reporter. I also held senior newsroom roles at Fairfax's smh.com.au and the Sunday newspaper, The Sun-Herald. After leaving journalism, I gained my qualifications to practise as a lawyer. My book, Headstrong Daughters, is about how Muslim women from a range of cultural backgrounds live in Australia. It covers diverse themes including segregated living rooms, Sunni-Shiite relationships, and inheritance rules. Headstrong Daughters is my second published book. My first book, The Glory Garage, covered the lives of teenage girls from a Lebanese Australian Muslim background. This book was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and was a runner-up in the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year for Information Books. Both of my books were published by Allen &amp; Unwin and delve into how women living in Australia straddle different cultural and religious expectations. ...more