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The Culture Shift - Sheima Benembarek The Culture Shift
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After a hiatus, I had the pleasure of speaking with author and journalist Sheima Benembarek. Sheima's new book, Halal Sex, was released this spring, and explores the lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living in North America. We spoke about literary nonfiction, solidarity journalism and her experiences navigating the magazine publishing industry as a woman of colour.
Sheima Benembarek is a Moroccan Canadian writer and magazine publishing professional. She has worked as an arts and culture senior editor for Toronto Life, an events manager for The Walrus (where she focused on developing programming for The Walrus Talks series that featured underrepresented voices), a business development-brand communications lead at Corporate Knights, and as an associate editor at Broadview. Currently, she is the special reports + C-Suite editor at Strategy Magazine.
Sheima writes about social justice, immigrant narratives, and intersectional feminism. Her writing has appeared in print and online publications including the Literary Review of Canada, Maisonneuve, Corporate Knights, The Walrus, Quill & Quire, Chatelaine, Broadview, Reader’s Digest, This, and Vogue Arabia. She was named one of the five RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writers in 2020.
After a hiatus, I had the pleasure of speaking with author and journalist Sheima Benembarek. Sheima's new book, Halal Sex, was released this spring, and explores the lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living in North America. We spoke about literary nonfiction, solidarity journalism and her experiences navigating the magazine publishing industry as a woman of colour.
Sheima Benembarek is a Moroccan Canadian writer and magazine publishing professional. She has worked as an arts and culture senior editor for Toronto Life, an events manager for The Walrus (where she focused on developing programming for The Walrus Talks series that featured underrepresented voices), a business development-brand communications lead at Corporate Knights, and as an associate editor at Broadview. Currently, she is the special reports + C-Suite editor at Strategy Magazine.
Sheima writes about social justice, immigrant narratives, and intersectional feminism. Her writing has appeared in print and online publications including the Literary Review of Canada, Maisonneuve, Corporate Knights, The Walrus, Quill & Quire, Chatelaine, Broadview, Reader’s Digest, This, and Vogue Arabia. She was named one of the five RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writers in 2020.
40 min