Rana Kabbani
Rana Kabbani (; born 1958) is a British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster who lives in London. Most famous for her works ''Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of the Orient'' (1994) and ''Letter to Christendom'' (1989), she has also edited and translated works in Arabic and English. She has written for ''
Spare Rib'', the ''
International Herald Tribune'', The ''
New Statesman'', ''
The Guardian'', ''
British Vogue'', ''
The Independent'', ''
Al Quds al Arabi'', and ''
Islamica''. She has made and contributed to many television and radio programmes for the
BBC, on subjects such as literature, music, minority rights, Islamic culture, food, feminism, women's rights, painting, and British politics. She has spoken out against
islamophobia, defining its historic roots in colonialism. Her famous relatives include
Abu Khalil Qabbani, her uncle
Nizar Qabbani, her father
Sabah Qabbani, and her daughter
Yasmine Seale whose father is
Patrick Seale.
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