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Past events
Stitching Stories: Family Workshop
Afghan writer and activist Batool Haidari was leading creative writing workshops for families (ages 5+) as part of ...
June 22, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
In conversation with literary translators Parwana Fayyaz (Dari/English), Sabrina ...
October 1, 2024
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
The story of an Afghan women’s writing group, The British Library, London, 16 September 2024
To mark the launch of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), some of the Afghan writers and translators joined us at ...
September 16, 2024
The Afghanistan Society, London
The Afghanistan Society held an event with Afghan food, music, and a talk with writer Batool Haidari, poet and ...
January 25, 2024
Rising After the Fall & A Fistful of Moonlight, Stanfords, London
To mark the publication of Rising After the Fall, Afghan Women Share Their Stories (Scholastic, 2023) and A ...
November 14, 2023
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, Goethe Institut im Exil, Berlin
The Goethe-Institut in Exile dedicated the second half of 2023 to Afghanistan’s cultural scene and to giving ...
July 2, 2023
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