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Race, Fantasy, and Anti-Cinema: An Interview with Sol Mussa by Paula Teixeira Moláns
In this interview, academic Dr Paula Teixeira Moláns speaks to interdisciplinary artist Sol Mussa – both are from Galicia, 'a non-state nation known for its waves of migration' – about Mussa's artistic practice and personal experiences of migration. Across her work in film and visual art, Mussa thoughtfully explores her Galician-Mozambican identity, speaking the Galician language (known as galego), representation in the art world, finding comfort in the cosmopolitanism of London, trash and hierarchy, and more.
This is an extract from Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue.
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Porous Lines: An Interview with Mantra Mukim by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Victoria Adukwei Bulley interviews poet Mantra Mukim about his debut collection, Glitchwork (the87press, 2026). They discuss the grid or mesh as a form of poetics; a failed moon landing thwarted by unexpected error that informed Mukim's writing; other inspirations from visual art and music, like Nasreen Mohamedi and Aphex Twin; and the influences of growing up in the industrial and forest landscapes of Central India.
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On Guest-Editing The Spain Issue: María del Pilar Kaladeen and Marta Fernández Campa
We spoke to María del Pilar Kaladeen and Marta Fernández Campa about guest co-editing Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue, which explores racialised and migrant existences in Spain that are intentionally overlooked in favour of more white, ethnonationalist narratives of the country. They discuss their deeply intentional process of putting the issue together, intersectionality, colonial and historical memory, editing at a time of catastrophe, and more.
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A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo by Shady Lewis, trans. by Katharine Halls
Read an excerpt from Chapter One of Shady Lewis's third novel, A Brief History of Creation and Eastern Cairo (Dar Elain, 2021), translated by Katharine Halls. The novel is set in a modest middle-class neighbourhood of the titular city, and its story unfolds over the course of a single day, against the backdrop of real-life events that took place in the 1980s. In this chapter, the narrator introduces us to his home and family members.
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24 July 2026
Announcing our 2026/7 International Translator in Residence – Haider Shahbaz
We are thrilled to announce Pakistani translator and writer Haider Shahbaz as Wasafiri's new International Translator in Residence, as part of Wasafiri’s three-year partnership with the SALT (South Asian Literature in Translation) Project, which supports and promotes English-language translations of literature written in the languages of South Asia.
29 August 2026
Global Solidarities: Wasafiri at Edinburgh International Book Festival
What shapes can solidarities take in these times we live in? Join our Editor and Publishing Director Sana Goyal for a conversation on connection and public and private revolutions with Y M Abdel-Magied, whose novel At Sea offers a searing takedown of Big Oil; Molly Crabapple, who tells the story of the Jewish Bund movement in Here Where We Live Is Our Country; and Hannah Lillith Assadi, whose Paradiso 17 is loosely based on her father’s exile from Palestine after the Nakba.
21 May 2026
Languages of Resistance: Indigenous Poetics Workshop Series with Juana Adcock
We’re thrilled to announce a series of four creative, exploratory online writing and translation workshops led and curated by Wasafiri’s Translator in Residence (Endangered Languages), Juana Adcock. Building on short, pre-recorded audio and video of the authors reading their work, as well as translated reading material, participants will explore some of the issues at stake when bringing works from Indigenous languages into English. These workshops will run monthly from June to September 2026.
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