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Heba Hayek is a London-based writer born and raised in Gaza, Palestine. In this extract from Sambal Beneath Unlikely Skies, a collection of vignettes of a girlhood spent growing up in Gaza, Hayek examines the weight of old memories and what it means to leave a place behind.
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Heba Hayek is a London-based writer born and raised in Gaza, Palestine. In this extract from Sambal Beneath Unlikely Skies, a collection of vignettes of a girlhood spent growing up in Gaza, Hayek examines the weight of old memories and what it means to leave a place behind.
William Tham Wai Liang, Wasafiri’s Editor at Large based in Malaysia, reflects on Malaysia’s multilingual literary scene, where numerous languages intersect against a backdrop of complex colonial history.
‘A body is disobedient; it is a river flowing backwards and splitting off in many directions.’ Aotearoa New Zealand artist and writer Hana Pera Aoake writes about the waterways that make up their ancestry, their body, and their future.
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Editorial In the Wake of the Wake of the Wake
Interviews Paul Mendez, Niven Govinden, Ivan Vladislavić, Arundhati Roy
Articles J M Coetzee and African Studies; Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing; Of Women's Bonds: Female Friendships and Feminist Ethics of Care in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane
Art Painting the Sea and Sky; Pandemic Vicissitudes and Contemporary Art in Singapore
Fiction Michelle Hamadache, Karina Lickorish Quinn
Poetry Hala Alyan, Cecilia Knapp, Shakespeare Okuni, Celia A Sorhaindo
Life Writing Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, S J Kim
Review Essay Writing Watersheds: Climate, Prejudice, and Paranoia
Reviews Women Dreaming, Salma; The Orchid Folios, Mok Zining; Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga; Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, Saeed Yousef; Postcolonial Disaster, Pallavi Rastogi; Travelling while Black, Nanjala Nyabola; Antiemetic for Homesickness, Romalyn Ante
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Wasafiri is seeking applications from UK-based writers in all genres for our new 2021/22 Writer-in-Residence, for a six-month residency between September 2021 – March 2022.
Announcing a new series of free online events, Transformative Testimonies: Writing and Human Rights, taking place 17 – 23 May, 2021.
A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
