The Intended Seva Novgorodtsev

The Intended Seva NovgorodtsevThe narrator of The Intended is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There he is abandoned into social care, but with determination seizes every opportunity to follow his aunts farewell advice: but you must tek educationpass plenty exam. With a scholarship to Oxford, and an upper class white fiance, he has unquestionably arrived, but at the cost of ignoring the other part of his aunts farewell: you is we, remember you

Celebrating Shi’r magazine – Issue No 1

then overlap with

We talked till evening

old photos of the regiment lined up on Cheltenham Station just before leaving for the east

The issue opens with tributes to the “writer of the world”

Sue Coll of Garnet Publishing talks about their Arab Women Writers Series

Translation itself is an act of beneficent diaspora

Khaled Mattawa once remarked how rare it was "to see a poet growing in experimentation as he grows in age"

Fidel Sbeity

thereby “debunking the heroic self” of previous generations

The final part

Young Adam Awad