Samra Habib
Samra Habib is a Pakistani Canadian photographer, writer and activist. She is most noted for "Just Me and Allah", a photography project she launched in 2014 to document the lives of LGBTQ Muslims, and "We Have Always Been Here", a memoir of her experience as a queer-identified Muslim woman published in 2019 by Penguin Random House Canada.

Born in Pakistan to Ahmadi Muslim parents, Habib emigrated to Canada with her family in 1991 to escape religious persecution. She grew up primarily in Toronto, and was forced into an arranged marriage as a teenager before coming out as queer.

"We Have Always Been Here" was the winner of the 2020 edition of "Canada Reads", in which it was defended by actress Amanda Brugel. It was also longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, and won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at the 32nd Lambda Literary Awards.
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