Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman by N.S. Nuseibeh games the difficulties of food wastage

the difficulties of food wastage and the effects of commodification

Or thought about how we can weigh the earth

Her poetry transfigures that very private suffering into art that has a universal resonance

I think I can make you believe in them

she'll have to make a decision soon

Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman by N.S. Nuseibeh games the difficulties of food wastageWINNER OF THE JHALAK PROSE PRIZE 2025 WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD 2025 WINNER OF THE RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD FOR NON FICTION 2022 N. S. Nuseibeh's ancestor was none other than the legendary Nusayba bint Ka'ab al Khazrajia who fought alongside the Prophet Muhammad at the dawn of Islam. In Namesake, Nuseibeh draws on Nusayba's stories, comparing her experience as an Arab woman today to the distant past, to discover what courage looks like