I am Sadia Azma, an author and engineer passionate about human rights, focusing on women’s rights.
I was born in India to a loving Muslim family. I completed my professional studies there and, after marriage, immigrated to the USA.
I love writing and always found it very liberating.
Even though I wrote three novels and poems during high school and later in college, I never published them or considered becoming a writer.
Parents then generally encouraged their children to focus on academic studies and obtain a professional degree. The concept of identifying and nurturing extracurricular talent early in a child was less common. Unfortunately, I lost all that work to insignificance and oversight.
After working for 9+ years in the computer software industry, thanks to my mother's encouragement and my husband's advice to rekindle my writing skills, I decided to pursue my longstanding passion to work for the upliftment of women and their subsequent empowerment through writing and volunteering activities.
I saw Muslim women getting deeply impacted by many of the pre-Islamic and local cultural practices enforced as Islamic obligations. Women protesting against them are met with suppression, abuse, torture, violence, separation, divorce, and sometimes even death.
I understood this to be a critical issue that must be addressed urgently, as it affects not only women but also entire families. I embarked on a journey to write this book Prisoners of Traditions to create awareness and tackle these challenging and emotionally charged topics regarding Muslim women’s rights in South Asia.
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