These Bodies of Water

<p><h3>''Sabrina Mahfouz is a <b>tidal wave of truth</b> swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned<b>'' Lemn Sissay</b><br><br>''A <b>bold, brave</b> look at the ways imperialism affects us all, from the <b>universally political to the insightfully intimate</b>'' <b>Riz Ahmed</b><br><br>''<b>Impossible to put down</b> while you''re reading, and <b>impossible to forget</b> about when you''ve finished'' <i>Glamour</i></h3><br><br><i>Are you not made of Suez silt?</i><br><i>How do we know you won''t </i><br><i>shore our boats </i><br><i>by making yourself bigger </i><br><i>than we made you?</i><br><br>Sabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage, could she really be trusted?<br><br>Years later, Sabrina found herself confro