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Women in Film and Photography, Bagri Samaya Series, London

Women in Film and Photography, Bagri Samaya Series, London

Join Professor Jinhee Choi and curator Sarah Allen to explore women’s rights through Korean ...

September 4, 2025

Writing from the Heart, Bagri Samaya Series, London

Writing from the Heart, Bagri Samaya Series, London

Join us for Writing from the Heart: Memoirs, Poetry and Diaries panel discussion to explore the power of ...

July 31, 2025

Step into my shoes, Exiled Lit Cafe, London

Step into my shoes, Exiled Lit Cafe, London

Join Paranda writer Tamanna Easar at Exiled Lit Cafe panel Step into my Shoes, exploring ...

June 24, 2025

My Dear Kabul, Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival

My Dear Kabul, Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival

Join us to hear My Dear Kabul (Coronet Books, 2024) contributor Batool Haidari, co-translator Dr Negeen Kargar, ...

June 2, 2025

Stitching Stories: Family Workshop

Stitching Stories: Family Workshop

Join Afghan writer and activist Batool Haidari to explore the power of words and have a go at creative ...

June 22, 2025

Afghan women’s words: My Dear Kabul, Sydney Writers’ Festival

Afghan women’s words: My Dear Kabul, Sydney Writers’ Festival

My Dear Kabul (Coronet Books, 2024) contributor Rana Zurmaty former Afghan judge Shakila Abawi Shigarf, and Afghan ...

May 22, 2025

A year in the life of an Afghan women’s writing group, Cambridge Literary Festival

A year in the life of an Afghan women’s writing group, Cambridge Literary Festival

Writer Batool Haidari, translator Dr Negeen Kargar, and Untold director Lucy Hannah were at Cambridge Literary ...

April 24, 2025

The Guilty Feminist at Amplify Festival

The Guilty Feminist at Amplify Festival

Parwana Fayyaz, Afghan poet, scholar, author of Forty Names (Carcanet Press, 2021), co-editor and ...

December 7, 2024

Stories of Afghanistan: Reporting from the front line, Wimbledon BookFest

Stories of Afghanistan: Reporting from the front line, Wimbledon BookFest

Writer Batool Haidari and translator Parwana Fayyaz joined Elizabeth Briggs from Saqi Books to discuss the making ...

October 19, 2024

Write Assamese: Writing, translating and publishing regional languages, Frankfurt

Write Assamese: Writing, translating and publishing regional languages, Frankfurt

Ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, we joined a panel event to explore writing, translating and publishing with a ...

October 14, 2024

International Translation Day: Translating fiction from Afghanistan, Online, 1 October 2024

International Translation Day: Translating fiction from Afghanistan, Online, 1 October 2024

In conversation with literary translators Parwana Fayyaz (Dari/English), Sabrina ...

October 1, 2024

Dear diary: From the personal to the collective, Maughan Library, London

Dear diary: From the personal to the collective, Maughan Library, London

Hand writing history: 200 years of personal diaries, an exhibition at The Maughan Library, King’s College London, ...

September 17, 2024

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