4 years 💔 There are no words adequate to describe how much I miss you. What a long, relentless journey grief is. And yet I feel your love and encouragement every day guiding me. Sharing your beautiful poem Amber which resonates so much today.

Thanks DUA LIPA!

Delighted to feature on Service95, the global editorial platform founded by DUA LIPA. Issue 102: Women In Resistance is dedicated to incredible Afghan women & features an excerpt by Batool Haidari from 'My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird'🕊

Read more: service95.com/my-pen-is-the-…

Excited to be hosting the poets Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Tristram Fane Saunders (Tristram Fane Saunders) this Monday at Peterhouse. The perfect Barbenheimer of poetry!

Happening Now: Concurrent Session 1
Afghanistan Imagined by Afghans

Ian Almond, Georgetown University in Qatar
Dawood Azami, BBC World Service/University of Westminster
Parwana Fayyaz, University of Cambridge
Abdul Khaliq Rashid, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Zahra Wakilzada,

Joyful, moving and galvanising in equal parts. A few photos from our event @Stanfordstravel to mark the launch of ‘Rising After the Fall, Afghan Women Share their Stories' and ‘A Fistful of Moonlight, Stories from Assam'. We're so proud of the writers and teams who made these ...

Rising After the Fall gives children aged 8-12 a better understanding of life as the Taliban retook Afghanistan. The characters are fictional but based on real diaries of Afghan women writers. Without their courage this book wouldn't exist.
Available now: amazon.co.uk/Rising-After-F…

Happy National Poetry Day! Happy Refuge Day for those living in poems
...
It was wartime, and
she wanted to shelter the bird.
The winter melted away
and the bird flew back
to its unknown nest.
Only my mother and the war remained
for the rest of the winters that came after.
...

Happy National Poetry Day 📚To celebrate, we’ve put together a collection of five books that explore this year's theme of ‘refuge’, that you can read for free this weekend! ✨

Explore the collection here on Exact Editions: bit.ly/3tk2kcB

Expires 23:59 on 8/10/23.

Eid Treats 🥰

Since the Taliban’s resurgence in 2021, womens lives have once again become restricted.

Today at Bradford Literature Festival , Dr Aviva Dautch, christinalamb, Dr Parwana Fayyaz and I, had a conversation on the critical situation facing the women of #Afghanistan today.

That's all, folks! We're saying goodbye to #BBF23 - and looking forward to #BBF24 !

Thanks to everyone who made this year's festival so special 🫶

See you soon for more literary adventures!

The theme of this workshop is inspired by my own experience of writing poetry [in English] and believing that poetry gives us a familiar land...We will explore our deepest aspirations and fear, by reading poets like Rumi and T. S. Eliot and then write about our own journeys of ∞

Delighted to be part of @belfastbookfest & to read with these wonderful poets -⁦Dr Parwana Fayyaz⁩ & ⁦Rachel Long⁩. So many great events! Girlhood: Maureen Boyle, Parwana Fayyaz & Rachel Long | Belfast Book Festival belfastbookfestival.com/whats-on/writi…

یک از قمر ها دور از وطن ...
Afghanistan International English Moonchik Media
youtube.com/watch?v=Hj7KYS…

Finally read Financial Times award winning book
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
from ⁦MacLehose Press⁩ translated by ⁦Dr Parwana Fayyaz⁩.
Sorry stories from 18 Afghan women. One author submitted her story by taking photos of handwritten pages & sending them via WhatsApp.

5 year ago, PN Review published its May-June 2018 issue 🖋

Featuring: kei miller 'The Fat Black Woman', Dr Parwana Fayyaz 'Forty Names & other poems', and Craig Raine 'You Plural, You Singular'.

Read the issue: exacted.me/PNReviewMay_Ju… 📖

#ThisMonthInHistory

A wave of colors dived behind the mountains,
freedom was sought in their veils

These mountains became their cots.
The wind their wings, and those pebbles their friends.
Their rocky cave, a cave for all the forty women.

#MondoDiVersi Fayyaz #QuarantaNomi

©️Fatimah Hossaini 🇦🇫

AnnaSaba©️ AguaplanoLibri Dr Parwana Fayyaz Arturo Dielle 'Le montagne divennero il loro giaciglio.
Il vento le loro ali
e i ciottoli i loro amici.
La loro grotta rocciosa
una grotta per tutte e quaranta
le donne.
E i loro padri e le loro madri scomparvero'.

#MondoDiVersi Fayyaz

Buon pomeriggio cara Anna
🫶📚🫂🌷

🎨Miranda Sofroniou