Tamam Kahn

Tamam Kahn is author of Fatima’s Touch, Poems and Stories of the Prophet’s Daughter, Ruhaniat Press, 2016, and Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, Monkfish Press, 2010, International Book Award winner, 2011. She includes stories and poems as well as an occasional Spoken Word piece on these 7th century women. Tamam has traveled widely among the mystics of the Middle East, India, and North Africa, was invited by the Royal Ministry of Morocco to read her poetry at the symposium in Marrakesh in 2009. Tamam lived in Damascus in 2003. She read from her book on Fatima at Poet’s House in NYC for The Wide Shore, A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry, 2015. She has been awarded writing residencies at Ragdale Foundation and Jentel Artist Residency.