As part of this year’s Festival of Encounters, join us on Sunday, September 14 from 2pm – 3pm for a talk by Dalia Al-Dujaili. In this talk Dalia Al-Dujaili discusses her book Babylon, Albion and considers what it means to belong in your land. She traces the rich heritage of the earth beneath our feet and the wildlife that call […] The post Festival of Encounters 2025: Dalia Al-Dujaili appeared first on Saqi Books.| Saqi Books
Join us at Gay’s The Word bookshop from 7:30pm on 18 September to celebrate This Queer Arab Family – a powerful new book on identity, love and chosen family. We’ll be hearing from the editor Elias Jahshan alongside some of the featured contributors. Fierce, vibrant and unapologetic, This Queer Arab Family honours the spirit of those who, despite challenges, build community and […] The post This Queer Arab Family Launch at Gay’s the Word appeared first on Saqi Books.| Saqi Books
Join us at Bàrd Books on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, from 7:30pm for a special evening of stories, connection and community as we launch the much-anticipated anthology, This Queer Arab Family. Bàrd Books will be hosting a Queer Open Mic Night featuring readings from queer writers across the city. Expect moving prose, powerful poetry and joyful storytelling. This Queer Arab […] The post This Queer Arab Family Pre-Launch at Bàrd Books appeared first on Saqi Books.| Saqi Books
To celebrate the publication of This Queer Arab Family, join us from 6:30pm on Friday 12 September in welcoming author and editor Elias Jahshan for an in-conversation event at Bookmarks Bookshop, Britain’s leading socialist bookshop. In Arab culture, tradition often dictates an individual’s role in a family, with personal desires subsumed in favour of unity. So, what happens when Queer […]| Saqi Books
Calling our US friends – come and celebrate the US release of Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration with author Dalia Al-Dujaili at Ursula Bookshop, from 6pm-8pm on Friday, 19 September 2025. Babylon, Albion offers a poetic reflection on belonging – not only to a place or a people, but to the stories that bind them together. […] The post Book Launch & Signing: Babylon, Albion appeared first on Saqi Books.| Saqi Books
Join us for a conversation with writers Dalia Al-Dujaili and SJ Kim as part of this year’s Birmingham Literature Festival. Dalia Al-Dujaili’s Babylon, Albion traces the rich heritage of the earth beneath our feet – from oak trees to myths about dragons and unicorns – weaving together Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral. A love song […]| Saqi Books
What would you do if you were given a second chance? An opportunity to start again and do things differently? Leila Aboulela’s A New Year and Karen Campbell’s This Bright Life explore what happens when we are forced to rebuild our lives. Join us for this heartwarming event celebrating the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s theme of Repair. Chaired by Claire Urquhart. The Edinburgh International Book […] The post Edinburgh International Book Festival: Leila Aboulela & Karen C...| Saqi Books
Mahmoud Munaand Matthew Teller join the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss Daybreak in Gaza, an anthology they have co-edited which illuminates in vivid detail the extraordinary individuals, meaningful places and incredible richness of a people, culture and heritage undergoing traumatic devastation. Through vignettes of writers and artists, but also farmers, doctors, students, athletes, shopkeepers and teachers, Daybreak in Gaza […] The post Edinburgh International Book Festiv...| Saqi Books
The freedom to write and sell books is fundamental to a democracy, so in these censorious times how best can we disagree without silencing? To talk it out robustly are Audition author Katie Kitamura, who’s spoken out against Trump’s attacks on language; novelist Yiyun Li, who’s written about self-censorship in China and online; and bookseller Mahmoud Muna, whose Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem was recently […] The post Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mahmoud Muna, Katie K...| Saqi Books
Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, co-editors of the Palestine Book Award-shortlisted Daybreak in Gaza, talk culture, literature, storytelling and their role in resistance. Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They […] The post Lighthouse Book Fringe: Stories of Palestine: Life & Culture...| Saqi Books
From a foremost expert on the Middle East, a searing indictment of the forces that led to genocidal war on Gaza and its reverberations across the globe.| Saqi Books