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.

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. ...

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…

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 ...

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!

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-…

Thanks DUA LIPA!

A sighting of Quaranta Nomi at La Biennale Dr Parwana Fayyaz AguaplanoLibri

Three years of teamwork Untold Narratives Big thanks to the 21 Afghan women writers, Will Forrester Sunila Galappatti Dr Parwana Fayyaz and the many others who made this book. #Don’tForgetAfghanistan

Look what just arrived! Personal accounts from an Afghan women writers’ WhatsApp group in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover, collated by Untold Narratives. It’s been a while since I pre-ordered a book, but I’m excited to read this and wanted to get it ASAP!

Congratulations on new book “My Dear #Kabul” by Afghan women writers - some of their team came in to the BBC Radio 4 Today studio - Lucy Hannah Batool Haidari Dr Parwana Fayyaz Untold Narratives 📚

Join BritishLibraryEvents plus lyse doucet, Lucy Hannah, Batool Haidari, Dr Parwana Fayyaz, Untold Narratives, charlie higson, Mariana Mazzucato, Samira Ahmed, Tracy Borman OBE, Medieval Manuscripts, Fiona Sampson, Dan Jones, Julian Harrison, and HistFest

🎉 Celebrating Women in Translation Month literary translators Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Dr Negeen Kargar share their  favourite books: Memorial by Alice Oswald & The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Deidre Freely 📚 #WomenInTranslationMonth #LiteraryTranslation

One of My Dear Kabul’s literary translators Dr Parwana Fayyaz was on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire with Louise Hulland talking about her translation of My Dear Kabul (1:19:30 to listen): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #AfghanWomen #AfghanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation

My recent conversation with Dr Parwana Fayyaz is now live on Hyphen! Connecting with other Afghans through journalism has been so rewarding. MashAllah their voices carry so much strength and wisdom. #journalism #Afghanistan #afghanstories hyphenonline.com/2024/08/30/par…

Glad to be joining the event for My Dear Kabul Untold Narratives - an extraordinary interwoven narrative of change and solidarity by 21 Afghan women writers King's Libraries #maughamlibrary - with Lynne O'Donnell Sunila Galappatti Dr Parwana Fayyaz Batool Haidari

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the British Library to hear the story behind My Dear Kabul (Coronet , 2024). Special thanks to lyse doucet, panelists Marie, Batool Haidari, Dr Negeen Kargar, Dr Parwana Fayyaz, Sunila Galappatti, Lucy Hannah, Lillie Razvi Toon and Bee Rowlatt.

🎙️📷"The writers of 'My Dear Kabul' emphasise that the diary is not a plea to the world. These women are not writing to be saved, but to be seen and be heard." A conversation with Marie, Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Sunila Galappatti of Untold Narratives. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQJPw…