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An Extract from ‘The Book Smuggler’ by Bina Shah
Read an exclusive extract of Bina Shah’s short story ‘The Book Smuggler’, first published in Issue 108: House of Wisdom, and available for free until the end of January.
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Craft Episode 2 Transcript: Chen Chen
Welcome to Craft. Each month we bring you one international writer talking about one of their works for about thirty minutes. This month, Chen Chen talks about his poem ‘Nature Poem’ from his debut collection When I Grow Up, I Want To Be a List Of Further Possibilities. Chen Chen’s second book of po…
An Extract from ‘The Book Smuggler’ by Bina Shah
Read an exclusive extract of Bina Shah’s short story ‘The Book Smuggler’, first published in Issue 108: House of Wisdom, and available for free until the end of January.
Two Poems by Alison Glenny
Two short, complex, and evocative poems from Aotearoa New Zealand poet Alison Glenny, author of Bird Collector.
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Featuring Bina Shah, Hamja Ahsan, Nisha Ramayya, Latifa Ayad and more, House of Wisdom: Libraries and Literatures of Islam collects writing that uses the libraries that were the hallmark of Islamicate empires around the globe as its cornerstone to reflect creatively and critically on Islamic literary culture.
Guest Edited by Rehana Ahmed and Nadia Atia
Editorial Libraries and Literatures of Islam
Interviews Ahdaf Soueif and Kamila Shamsie, Nur Sobers-Khan
Articles Archiving Islam in Nadeem Aslam’s Libraries; The Craft of the Catalogue in Sinan Antoon’s The Book of Collateral Damage; Libraries, Literature, and Literacy in Palestine; Restoring Medieval England’s Arabic Books to View
Art The Power of Books: Wafaa Bilal’s 168:01 and Edmund de Waal’s library of exile
Fiction Latifa Ayad, Mohammed Barber, Bina Shah
Poetry Moniza Alvi, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Zaffar Kunial, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nisha Ramayya
Life Writing Hamja Ahsan: The Library to Come
Review Essay Textual Responses to Muslim Migration and Displacement
Reviews Diana Darke, Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe; Caroline Rooney, Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings; Samira Shackle, Karachi Vice; Sabina Akhtar, ed., Cut from the Same Cloth: Muslim Women on Life in Britain
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Beyond Protest: Writing for Action
Wasafiri is excited to announce ‘Beyond Protest: Writing for Action’, an online writing workshop tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, taking place on 26 January, from 7-9pm, on Zoom.
Become Our New Publishing Director
Wasafiri is looking for an experienced, dynamic and passionate candidate to be our next Publishing Director! Applications due by 10 January 2022.
Poetics of Home: A Chinese Diaspora Poetry Festival
Announcing Poetics of Home, an online festival celebrating Chinese diaspora poets taking place 22 September – 6 October 2021.