Finding My Place Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Anne Aly (Author, Narrator), Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd (Publisher)

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The warm, funny and insightful story of growing up a brown Muslim girl in suburban Australia by the nation's best-dressed counterterrorism expert and MP.

Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counterterrorism expert to be elected to Federal Parliament. She was also most probably the first parliamentarian to have seen Zoolander 23 times.

'What am I doing here?' she asked herself as she was sworn in with her hand on her father's copy of the Quran. It's a question the former professor has raised more than once since she arrived in Australia aged two bearing the name Azza Mahmoud Fawzy El Housseini Ali Al Serougi.

The answer is a fascinating and moving story of a Muslim girl growing up in suburban Australia in the '70s, when The Brady Bunch appeared to epitomise Western family life and girls like Anne danced the divide between the expectations and values of their parents' culture and that of their adopted land.

Told with warmth, humour and insight, Anne's book is an irresistible story by an irrepressible Australian woman who has already made her mark internationally and in public life.

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8 hours and 58 minutes
Author

Anne Aly
Narrator

Anne Aly
Audible release date

26 March 2018
Language

English
Publisher

Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
ASIN

B079SG1HM8
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	8 hours and 58 minutes
Author	Anne Aly
Narrator	Anne Aly
Audible.com.au Release Date	26 March 2018
Publisher	Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B079SG1HM8
Best Sellers Rank	25,722 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 154 in Biographies of Politicians 328 in Biographies of Political Leaders 2,804 in Memoirs (Books)

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Jenell

We need more people like you

Reviewed in Australia on 16 May 2018

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From a white woman to a brown woman : go girl! Inspiring. Proud to be Australian . I learnt a lot about what creates terrorism. We need to know what we are fighting before we can stop it.

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Linda

Anne my friend

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2021

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I met Anne a year ago and reading her book brought me into her world. She is crazy and loveable.

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Fascinating memoir of a woman who seizes every opportunity that life gives her with both hands - excellent

Reviewed in Australia on 19 July 2018

Anne Aly has had a remarkable life and this book tells the story so far. I stayed up really late reading it because I couldn't bear to put it down - I just had to finish it.

I breathed a sigh of relief when her family got to Australia but then her family worried that she had become too Western and wanted her to go back to Egypt and my heart was in my mouth. I didn't want her to go because stupidly, for just a moment, I was scared that she'd be stuck there forever. Which is crazy because I've seen her on TV and I know she's currently in the Australian parliament but I was so caught up in her story that I was afraid. And that's really the story of the book. At any moment anything could happen and Anne's life could take any kind of twist and turn and that was scary. She really is a resilient and amazing woman and this is a great read.

If you ever read this, Ms Aly, thank you for sharing your incredible story.

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Angelika63

Ein Buch voller Zuversicht

Reviewed in Germany on 20 September 2020

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Die Beschreibung von Anne Aly über ihren Weg von Ägypten in das australische Parlament ist eine spannende Autobiographie, die voller Wärme sowohl für ihre ägyptischen Wurzeln als auch ihre Heimat Australien ist. Sie begegnet positiven und negativen Erlebnissen mit Tatkraft und Humor und zeigt, dass es auch Bücher über Migration geben kann, die ohne Schuldzuweisungen oder Gefühlsduseleien auskommen. Das Buch ist - sofern die Englischkenntnisse gut sind - sehr angenehm zu lesen und uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert.

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