Quraisha Dawood

Quraisha Dawood is a South African sociologist and writer. In 2002, she published an anthology of poems entitled Jewels of Faith: Poems for Muslim Youth.  She has since been published in Reader’s Digest,  Irtiqa magazine,  Al-Qalam,  Al-Ummah,  the Sunday Tribune,  Riding the Samoosa Express  and Saffron,  as well as academic journals. In 2020, she published Almost Me,  an autobiographical account of her journey through miscarriage, postpartum depression and motherhood. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and is currently the research manager of a private higher education institution. Stirring the Pot  is her first novel.