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Muslim author Leila Aboulela on her daughter's decision not to wear the headscarf
Leila Aboulela discusses her novel Minaret, her story of exile, heartache, love and religious faith in which a young Sudanese woman called Najwa flees a coup d鈥檈tat with her mother and brother to London.
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