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Congratulations to Leila Aboulela on winning the 2025 @englishPEN Pinter Prize! To celebrate, we're sharing an essay she wrote for Wasafiri, where she looks back over her career – and her history with the magazine – offering advice to emerging writers. buff.ly/PRT36Db
...something I love about poetry: it never gives you full access to a culture. It's always like, no, there is some distance. That distance is really important. It is an important estrangement. Mona Kareem, @WasafiriMag wasafiri.org/content/this-e…
Safa Khatib speaks to poet and translator Mona Kareem about their collection I WILL NOT UNFOLD THESE MAPS (trans. by Sara Elkamel) and the evolution of their poetics and practice amid Arabic and American publishing industries. Read now: buff.ly/a09RgfM
Read a short story from the book here: wasafiri.org/content/exclus…
'The Book of Sana'a, for outsiders, is a way in. But for people who know it, it brings it alive.'✍️ In the latest Comma blog, editor Laura @kasinof talks first impressions, Yemen's overlooked role in the region, & engaging with a place through fiction. 📜commapress.co.uk/blog/the-book-…
The Reviews section of Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue covers some of the latest contemporary poetry, research, fiction, and nonfiction coming out of the UAE and wider region. Read now: buff.ly/hBuOxqB
On 6 June 2025, we collaborated with @WasafiriMag to host an event at Waterstones Gower Street, London, with Devika Rege in conversation with Pankaj Mishra on her debut novel, Quarterlife. Watch their conversation here: thepolisproject.com/read/quarterli…
Read an exclusive extract from Ana Paula Maia's forthcoming ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH – translated by Padma Viswanathan – which enters the world of an unusual penal colony in the wilderness with only male inmates. Out with @CharcoPress in August 2025. buff.ly/dD1jYNL
Writing the Self, Writing Berlin is a new Wasafiri limited series led by our CHASE intern, @DivyaGhelani – stay tuned for writing, interviews, and meditations by various international writers who call this complex city home, at wasafiri.org
In celebration of Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue, join us for a FREE roundtable discussion TODAY with three NYU Abu Dhabi alumni & issue contributors: eventbrite.co.uk/e/weve-got-his…
Summer reading = Sorted! Read every new issue of Wasafiri as it's published + gain access to our entire archive of fiction, poetry, life writing, essays, art, reviews, and more, by literary heavyweights and emerging writers alike. Digital subscription: buff.ly/SmJX0VI
In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wasafiri has curated a selection of issues from our archive that showcase his rich contribution to the magazine over the decades. Including both fiction and essays, the collection portrays the immense breadth of his work. buff.ly/37LMpZJ
Read an extract from @saimabgm's forthcoming debut, THE FIRST JASMINES (@HajarPress), that centres two sisters who – around the dawn of Bangladesh as a nation – are captured by Pakistani soldiers and forced to waste their days in a makeshift prison. buff.ly/vu4zfGC
“It captures this reality like no other novel I’ve read." — Pankaj Mishra on Devika Rege’s Quarterlife, which explores India’s ruptured consciousness in an age of profound change. Conversation hosted by @project_polis and @Wasafirimag at Waterstones, London…
Happening tomorrow evening, 7pm BST! Couple of spaces left so book quickly!
There are still some spaces left for our online workshop 'Writing through Fugitivity' hosted by @lolaolufemi_ this Thursday! Four subsidised spaces remain specifically for Black writers. Other concession tickets are also available. Book your spot: buff.ly/JpqsX04