Swooning over these gorgeous covers of #LeilaAboulela new book ‘River Spirit - My copy is in the post & can’t wait! 💃🏻The Markaz Review المركز ريفيو
Great to be at my first in-person literary event in a couple of years! Really enjoyed tonight's Lancaster Litfest with the excellent Layla AlAmmar | ليلى العمار talking about her novel #SilenceIsASence and Lindsey Moore @PocoLCMoore's brilliant interview with #LeilaAboulela !
Armed Conflict in Sudan: 10 Books to Read in Solidarity With The People of Sudan
#LeilaAboulela River Spirit Grove Atlantic
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Five Sudanese writers on what's happening in Sudan including myself, Reem -ريم Rania Mamoun|رانيا مأمون Suzannah Mirghani and #LeilaAboulela tinyurl.com/4n7pvbds #KeepEyesOnSudan
Check it out👇- I’ll be chatting with two stunning fiction writers #LeilaAboulela & Layla AlAmmar | ليلى العمار - live & hybrid Lancaster Litfest 📚
'Congratulations to Qaisra Shahraz MBE JP for organising so many wonderful events. For the first time ever I signed a copy of one of my books for a policewoman!'
Very kind words from critically acclaimed #Sudanese -born #author #LeilaAboulela about #MACFEST !
📚 #Litfest 2022 goes on and what a lovely time we're having! This evening we were joined by the wonderful Anita Sethi 🍃 and Layla AlAmmar | ليلى العمار, as well as Lindsey Moore @PocoLCMoore & #LeilaAboulela via video.
Roll on tomorrow for much more - see litfest.org !
Radical Books Collective GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative River Spirit by #LeilaAboulela
historical fiction, set in 1890's #Sudan , foreshadows the rush to claim sovereignty over the region by competing foreign interests, while conveniently crushing a local uprising, using morally divisive tactics.
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3 writers from #Sudan on BRITTLE PAPER's anticipated #African #books of 2023: @leilaaboulela for River Spirit, Fatin Abbas for Ghost Season, and myself as a contributor to #RELATIONSanthology edited by nanaekua
#MargaretBusby and #LeilaAboulela will be in conversation at Essex Book Festival on Saturday at an event chaired by Sheila Ruiz, Deputy Director at Royal African Society.
Come along to hear about the publication of #NewDaughtersOfAfrica , the landmark anthology.
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Happy Sunday, writers.
'Words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction.' — Leila Aboulela
#africanwriting #Africanliterature #leilaaboulela #africanart
Aki Schilz @DameDeniseMina Abir Mukherjee Louise Welsh Jason Donald @AlanBissett kirsten Innes James Robertson Janice GALLOWAY Zoe Strachan Chris Brookmyre @leilaaboulela Owen Sheers Ewan Morrison . I think I had better stop now
Chatting with #LeilaAboulela about her up and coming work and her journey through writing #ElseWhereHome on #storyzfromyhairpodcast
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Full house at Durham Book Festival for the Unbound #Others anthology with Louise Doughty Charles Fernyhough and #LeilaAboulela
Looking forward to my first Edinburgh International Book Festival event of the day with Val McDermid #LeilaAboulela #RobinRobertson What is Home?
Birmingham followers, an event is coming to you this October, courtesy of BookBlast® all things books & translation and Waterstones Birmingham!
Contributors from 'The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write' will discuss their work and the anthology as a whole. Tickets below!
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(feat Jenni Fagan @ely_percy Kerry Hudson Amy Liptrot Graeme Armstrong david f ross Rachelle Atalla Karen Campbell @leilaaboulela and there would have been even more if I hadn’t already gone WAY over my word count)
Very pleased to be welcoming #MargaretBusby #LeilaAboulela + #SheilaRuiz #NewDaughtersOfAfrica Firstsite Colchester #Colchester as part of #PLACE 23MAR @essexbookfest Saqi Books Essex Cultural Diversity Project AfricanCaribbean_Lit AFiUK Metal Southend APPETITE BOOK CLUB Arts Council England, South East Arts Council England, South East MyriadEditions
talking to #LeilaAboulela about #literature #history and #HumanRights in her book 'The Kindness of Enemies' as part of ReadRespond project on the 19th of March! DM for video link,
The anthol feat. much fine writing incl. by Fadia Faqir Kamila Shamsie #leilaaboulela Sabrina Mahfouz Nafeesa Hamid @aliyahhasina #bookblast10x10tour