poet & photographer - [email protected]
London
Joined February 2010
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I’m facilitating a ‘Reading Round’ group at Walworth Library from January. A book club with no homework and completely free. Please reach out if interested. You can apply directly here: forms.gle/KK2wtURDKYrzsmvv6
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The annual @PhotoLondonFair showcase is on at @SomersetHouse. Go now to see some of the best photography from more than 40 cities around the world. ✍️ @amaalsaid
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First session is this Sunday! Don’t forget to sign up if interested. 📚
I’m facilitating a ‘Reading Round’ group at Walworth Library from January. A book club with no homework and completely free. Please reach out if interested. You can apply directly here: forms.gle/KK2wtURDKYrzsmvv6
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Thanks to @lithub for putting together this list of 40 beautiful & brilliant Palestinian books:
lithub.com/40-books-to-under…
I’m so grateful to have my work exhibited as part of Brighton Digital Festival! If you’re not in Brighton you can watch/listen here: ificouldgettoyou.com/ 🥰
'If I Could Get to You', @amaalsaid's audio-visual work that uses interviews, film and photography to explore the process of knowing our personal histories and documenting our perception of them can be experienced every night starting 6:30 pm at @enter_gallery #digitalmocracies
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"For the Palestinian Martyrs Who Never Came Home," a 1980 poem by Pakistani communist Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written while in exile in Beirut. Translated by Asad Haider
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Meet our new Artists in Residence @amaalsaid , Simone Carty and Munotida Chinyanga!
They are currently participating in a3 week at home residency to explore new ways of working and develop new ideas and methodologies.
Read more:
lighthouse.org.uk/events/pie…
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Join Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) and No More Exclusions on June 6th from 4-6pm (GMT) for an Abolition 101 webinar.
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Saturday THREAD - So much solidarity from coast to coast! This is an updated thread on bail funds supporting people arrested for demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, & all victims of police violence. 1/
#FreeThemAll
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The End of Policing by @avitale is free to download (ebook) on our website. There is no reforming a system designed to be violent. Burn it down.
If you can, please donate the cost to a Black led local organisation or minnesotafreedomfund.org/don…
versobooks.com/books/2817-th…
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.@picadorbooks picks up @rachelnalong's debut poetry collection—a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences of the learning and unlearning of shame, the body, sex, faith, blackness, lineage, prophecy and healing”: bit.ly/2T0QWOk
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On this suddenly terrifying night, I find myself thinking of this epigraph in Solmaz Sharif’s Look (2016), quoted from Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry (1949).
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found this to be a really informative listen on the U.S coup in Iran in 1953 - helpful context for anyone completely unfamiliar. any reading on US/Iran relations (pref non-U.S centered) would be much appreciated podcasts.google.com/?feed=aH…
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Hey folks. Things look grim.
I've compiled an extensive but not exhaustive list of crisis & support organisations which can be found here:
justpaste.it/UK-crisis-and-s…
Please share this far and wide. I think many of us may need to call upon one of these numbers in the coming months.