Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Maryam Azam discussing her poetry collection The Hijab Files.

The Hijab Files emerged as a response to the paucity of representations of hijabi women in Australian literature. The collection engages with modern assumptions about women who wear the hijab and expands these limited, often racist imaginings to encompass the variety and fashion of the hijab.