Sahera Patel

Hi

I am a forty-seven year old primary teacher, public speaker and now, a real life author! Forming coherent sentences with the English language has always been a passion of mine, but the routines of life came in the way of becoming a published author. Marriage, work, children and the responsibilities of day to day life restricted my ability to free the author in me, but finally, after years of perhaps and maybes I have achieved my goal.

My first book is I'm not a celebrity I am a Muslim, and being an autobiography, the content was not difficult to find, and the second one, Unveiling Arabia, also didn't prove a struggle in terms of material as it recounts my year spent in Saudi Arabia, teaching and living in the land of the Arabs with an intense heat and desert sands as far as the eye can see. I have also recently published my third book, The Voice of Palestine, recounting a trip to the Holy Land just before the Pandemic hit with a group of Muslim/Christian women. It was an incredibly spiritual yet heart breaking experience.

The front cover of my first book is a picture of myself taken by my 12 year old son in Kerala, India and the second cover is a picture of two colleagues and close friends at the Al Rahma mosque in Jeddah and the final book has one of my favourite pictures on the cover: A wall with bricks dating back from the Roman era all the way to the Ottoman empire.

Check out the following article - http://m.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/former-teacher-hopes-memoir-will-dispel-islam-myths-1-7028206

Visit my facebook page on:https://www.facebook.com/UnveilingArabia/