Podcast appearances and mentions of leila aboulela

In this conversation, you can listen to me conversing with one of my favorite novelists, Leila Aboulela. What's even more remarkable about Leila's work, apart from her delicious writing style that makes me wish her books and short stories never end, is that she intentionally brings Muslim characters, usually women, into her work as the protagonists. Leila describes her work as centering Islam, giving Muslim readers a chance to see themselves in her work and for non-Muslim readers to get a glimpse into the fictionalized, nuanced, and non-stereotypical lives of Muslims.Apart from discussing the spirituality of her novels and stories, I ask Leila to share more about herself and her spiritual journey. We hear more about what motivated her and how her life experiences inspired her writing, especially that of her Muslim women characters. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to Leila's work, this episode promises an enriching and heartfelt conversation about the intersections of spirituality, creativity, and the power of storytelling.Find Leila Aboulela online here:*http://www.leila-aboulela.com*https://www.instagram.com/leilaaboulela/*https://www.facebook.com/laboulela/Support the Show.Find out more about Rose's work here: https://lnk.bio/dr.rose.aslanWebsite: https://compassionflow.comSupport Rahma with Rose so I can keep producing more episodes here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197727/supporters/new Music credits: Vocals: Zeynep Dilara Aslan; Ney/drum: Elif Önal; Tanbur: Katherine Hreib; Rebap: Hatice Gülbahar Hepsev

Leila Aboulela er en sudansk forfatter som bor i Skottland. Hun er forfatter av seks kritikerroste og prisvinnende romaner, blant annet The Translator (1999), Bird Summons (2019) og River Spirit (2023), samt en rekke skuespill og flere novellesamlinger. Abouela var den aller første vinneren av Caine Prize for Fiction, og hun er valgt inn i The Royal Society of Literature.Dette er Leila Aboulelas leseliste:Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (Skyggekongen)Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Trekket mot nord) The Wedding of ZeinNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) - Kairo-trilogien (Mellom to slott, Begjærets palass, Sukkerhuset) The Thief and the dogs Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the SunFatin Abbas, Ghost Season Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (Pariseren) Enter Ghost (Gjenferdet inn) I denne podkastserien inviterer Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset forfattere og tenker til å snakke om sine forfatterskap, lesepraksis og sin leseliste fra det afrikanske kontinentet og diaspora. Intervjuer i denne episoden er Åshild Lappegård LahnRedigering og produksjon ved Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset. Musikk av Ibou Cissokho Litteraturhusets satsning på afrikansk litteratur er støttet av NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer, currently living in Scotland. She is the author of six award winning novels, including The Translator (1999), Bird Summons (2019) and River Spirit (2023), as well as a number of plays and short story collections. Aboulela was the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for Fiction, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.This is Leila Aboulela's reading list:Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow KingTayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North The Wedding of ZeinNaguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) The Thief and the dogs Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the SunFatin Abbas, Ghost Season Isabella Hammad, The Parisian Enter Ghost In this podcast series the House of Literature in Oslo, Norway invites writers and thinkers to talk about their work, what they read and present their reading list from the African continent and diaspora. Host in this episode Åshild Lappegård LahnEditing and production by the House of LiteratureMusic by Ibou CissokhoThe House of Literature's project to promote African literature is supported by NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Elgrably in conversation with Sarah AlKahly-Mills, with readings from both authors. City Lights celebrates the publication of "Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction," edited by Jordan Elgrably, published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/stories-from-the-center-of-the-world/ "Stories from the Center of the World" gathers new writing from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, offering a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world. The authors included in the book come from a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco. In “Asha and Haaji,” Hanif Kureishi takes up the cause of outsiders who become uprooted when war or disaster strikes and they flee for safe haven. In Nektaria Anastasiadou‘s “The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff,” two students in Istanbul from different classes — and religions that have often been at odds with one another — believe they can overcome all obstacles. MK Harb‘s story, “Counter Strike,” is about queer love among Beiruti adolescents; and Salar Abdoh‘s “The Long Walk of the Martyrs” invites us into the world of former militants, fighters who fought ISIS or Daesh in Iraq and Syria, who are having a hard time readjusting to civilian life. In “Eleazar,” Karim Kattan tells an unexpected Palestinian story in which the usual antagonists — Israeli occupation forces — are mostly absent, while another malevolent force seems to overtake an unsuspecting family. Omar El Akkad‘s “The Icarist” is a coming-of-age story about the underworld in which illegal immigrants are forced to live, and what happens when one dares to break away. Contributors include: Salar Abdoh, Leila Aboulela, Farah Ahamed, Omar El Akkad, Sarah AlKahly-Mills, Nektaria Anastasiadou, Amany Kamal Eldin, Jordan Elgrably, Omar Foda, May Haddad, Danial Haghighi, Malu Halasa, MK Harb, Alireza Iranmehr, Karim Kattan, Hanif Kureishi, Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Diary Marif, Tariq Mehmood, Sahar Mustafah, Mohammed Al-Naas, Ahmed Naji, Mai Al-Nakib, Abdellah Taia, and Natasha Tynes. Jordan Elgrably is a Franco-American and Moroccan writer and translator, whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and reviews, including Apulée, Salmagundi, and The Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001-2020), and producer of the stand-up comedy show “The Sultans of Satire” (2005-2017) and hundreds of other public programs. He is based in Montpellier, France and California. Sarah AlKahly-Mills is a Lebanese-American writer. Her story “The Salamander” is included in the new book "Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction," edited by Jordan Elgrably, and just published by City Lights. Her fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays have appeared in publications including Litro Magazine, Ink and Oil, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, PopMatters, Al-Fanar Media, Middle East Eye, and various university journals. Born in Burbank, CA, she now lives in Rome, Italy. Originally hosted live in City Lights' Poetry Room on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation cosponsored with Golden Thread Productions. citylights.com/foundation

Jordan Elgrably, the Morrocan-French editor of the Markaz Review, wants us to read complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa that our simplistic newspaper headlines mostly ignore. In his new anthology, Stories from the Center of the World, Elgrably includes short stories from writers as diverse as Leila Aboulela, Amany Kamal Eldinn and Hanif Kureishi that reflect the rich mosaic of life in the region. Elgrably's anthology offers a refreshing alternative to the standard apocalyptic slant of most conversations in Western media about the Middle East and North Africa.Jordan Elgrably is the Editor in Chief of The Markaz Review. For many years he worked in Los Angeles where he was a social entrepreneur, producer & the founding director of the former Levantine Cultural Center (est. 2001), renamed The Markaz, Arts Center for the Greater Middle East. The Markaz closed on May 31, 2020 (as reported in the Los Angeles Times) but returned in September 2020 as The Markaz Review. A former curator of public programs, Jordan is of Moroccan and French heritage. He has been passionately committed to strengthening Arab/Muslim/Christian and Jewish relations for many years. In addition to The Markaz he cofounded the New Association of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists & Writers International in 1996 and Open Tent Middle East Coalition in 1999. He was a producer for the Dalai Lama's World Festival of Sacred Music in 1999, 2002 and 2005. As well, he has launched several original initiatives, among them Arabs, Blacks & Jews: The Art of Resistance (2005-2010); Sultans of Satire: Middle East Comic Relief (2005-2017); Beirut-Los Angeles.org—an effort to help victims of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war (2006); CelebratePalestine.org (2013-2014); New Voices in Middle Eastern Cinema (2010-2015), with funding from the Golden Globes/Hollywood Foreign Press Association; and Gaza Surf Relief (2007). Jordan attended the American University of Paris (formerly ACP) and was based for a number of years in Paris and Madrid, where he worked as a journalist and associate producer for TF1. His essays, articles and stories have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals. In 2008, the L.A. Weekly featured Jordan Elgrably in its People of the Year issue and he received the Local Hero Award from the Foundation for World Arts and Culture; in 2011 and 2014, he was an Annenberg Alchemy Fellow; in 2013 and 2015 he was nominated for the James Irvine Leadership Award. In 2014 he received an American Express Award and in 2015, the Rachel Corrie Conscience and Courage Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 2016 he was a Ariane de Rothschild Foundation Fellow. Jordan divides his time between Los Angeles and Montpellier.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Historien skrives av seierherrene. Men trenger vi ikke også å høre historien fra den andre siden, fra vanlige mennesker fanget midt i historiens omveltninger, tvunget til å velge side, eller bare forsøke å overleve? Til de som forvises til fotnotene i historiebøkene, eller som aldri nevnes.Dette kan sies å være utgangspunktet i romanene til sudansk-skotske Leila Aboulela og etiopisk-amerikanske Maaza Mengiste, som begge skriver med utgangspunkt i sine hjemlands historiske begivenheter.I Aboulelas nye roman River Spirit er bakteppet den dramatiske tiden i Sudans historie på slutten av 1800-tallet. I løpet av få år gikk landet gjennom flere okkupasjoner og en blodig revolusjon anført av en mann som påsto å være al-Mahdi (islams Messias). Gjennom et flettverk av ulike stemmer som havner på ulike sider i konfliktene, og med den foreldreløse ungjenta Akuany som omdreiningspunkt, tar Aboulela oss med gjennom Sudans nyere historie.En ung, fattig kvinne er også sentral i Maaza Mengistes roman Skyggekongen (til norsk ved Hilde Stubhaug), som forteller historien om da Etiopia i 1935 ble invadert av Mussolinis Italia. Fortalt fra så forskjellige perspektiver som Etiopias keiser Haile Selassie, den italienske soldaten Ettore og tjenestejenta Hirut, gir romanen et mangefasettert bilde av begivenhetene. Mengiste har selv sagt at hun var særlig opptatt av å utforske kvinnenes rolle i motstandskampen.Mengiste er født i Etiopia, og bor i dag i USA. Hun har utforsket Etiopias historie i begge sine kritikerroste romaner, debuten Beneath the Lion's Gaze og Skyggekongen, sistnevnte ble kortlistet til den prestisjetunge Booker-prisen. Mengiste har også gjort seg bemerket som fotograf og essayist.Aboulela er født i Sudan, og bor i dag i Skottland. Hun har utgitt en rekke prisvinnende romaner, novellesamlinger og skuespill. River Spirit er første roman i en planlagt serie som utforsker Skottlands rolle i britenes kolonisering av Sudan.På Litteraturhuset møter Aboulela og Mengiste forfatter og kunstnerisk leder for Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, til samtale om å skrive historiske romaner, og om å løfte fram kvinners og hverdagsmenneskers opplevelser i den store historien. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

History is written by the victorious. But do we not also need to hear the story from the other side, from ordinary people caught in the middle of historical upheavals, forced to pick a side, or just try to survive? To those relegated to the footnotes in the history books, or not mentioned at all.This can be said to be the starting point for the novels of Sudanese-Scottish Leila Aboulela and Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste, both writing about historical events in their home countries.The backdrop in Aboulela's new novel River Spirit is the dramatic time in the Sudan's history in the late 19th century. In the span of just a few years, the country underwent several occupations, as well as a bloody revolution led by a man claiming to be al-Mahdi (the Islamic Messiah). Through a multitude of voices from different sides of the conflicts, and with the young orphaned girl Akuany as a turning point, Aboulela leads us through a central historical time in the Sudan.A young, poor woman is also central in Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King, telling the story of 1935 Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini's Italy. Told from as different perspectives as Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie, the Italian soldier Ettore and the servant girl Hirut, the novel offers a complex picture of the events. Mengiste has emphasized that she was particularly interested in exploring women's role in the resistance movement.Mengiste was born in Ethiopia, and is currently living in the United States. She has explored Ethiopia's recent history in both her critically acclaimed novels Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King, with the latter shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. Mengiste has also made her mark as a photographer and an essayist.Aboulela was born in the Sudan, today she lives in Scottland. She has published a number of award winning novels, short story collections and plays. River Spirit is the first novel in a planned series exploring Scotland's role in the British colonization of the Sudan.At the House of Literature, Aboulela and Mengiste meet writer and creative director of the Radical Books Collective, Bhakti Shringarpure, for a conversation about writing historical fiction, and about foregrounding the stories of women and ordinary people within big historical events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amira Ghazalla reads a new short work from Leila Aboulela, as a woman remembers a childhood gift from her vibrant and beloved grandmother. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), she is the author of novels, including Bird Summons, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her collection of short stories Elsewhere, Home won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila's work has been translated into fifteen languages, and her plays The Insider, The Mystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Novelist Leila Aboulela joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on their 200th episode to talk about the fighting between rival military factions in her native Sudan, which has displaced millions of civilians. She compares the situation of Sudan, which underwent a coup in 2019, with the six other African countries that have experienced coups since 2020. Aboulela explains the historical precedents and particularities and reflects on how, when a country's military is its mightiest institution, a coup can be the only way to change leadership. She also reads from her new novel River Spirit, which covers the period of time leading up to the British occupation of Sudan.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Leila Aboulela River Spirit Bird Summons Elsewhere, Home The Kindness of Enemies Lyrics Alley Minaret Coloured Lights The Translator Articles in The Guardian Others: “What's behind the wave of coups in Africa,” Al Jazeera “Chaos in Sudan: Who Is Battling for Power, and Why It Hasn't Stopped,” by Declan Walsh and Abdi Latif Dahir "How To Write About Africa," Granta, by Binyavanga Wainaina, 2005 “Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Writer And LGBTQ Activist, Dies At 48,” by Colin Dwyer, NPR, May 22, 2019 Sudan, a coup laboratory - ISS Africa Khartoum (1966 film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I 2021 ble Abdulrazak Gurnah tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur, som den første afrikansk-fødte forfatteren på nær 20 år. I begrunnelsen fra Svenska Akademin heter det at han «kompromissløst og med stor medfølelse har belyst kolonialismens virkning og flyktningers skjebne i kløften mellom kulturer og kontinenter».Verden over får stadig flere lesere øynene opp for Gurnahs forfatterskap. Romanene Paradis, Etterliv og Svik utforsker Øst-Afrikas og Zanzibars historie, mens andre, som Taushetens øy og Ved sjøen, skildrer møtet med det britiske samfunnet som migrant. Felles for dem alle er at han skriver fram minneverdige personer som ikke er helter, men som tvert imot er unike i all sin stille hverdagslighet, og som ofte kan kjenne seg fremmedgjort fra verden rundt.Gjennom disse menneskenes fortellinger gir Gurnah oss mesterlige skildringer av en region og dens historie, av kolonitid, eksil og migrasjon. I en stille revolusjon forskyver han perspektivet fra det kjente, vestlige narrativet til et øst-afrikansk utgangspunkt, og tar oss med inn i den store historien sett gjennom vanlige menneskers blikk.«Gurnahs bøker er glimrende, engasjerende og fascinerende. Han er en mester i å skrive om de menneskene som trykkes ned av urett og undertrykkelse.»Det har forfatter Leila Aboulela uttalt om Gurnahs forfatterskap, som hun har et nært forhold til. Aboulela er født og oppvokst i Sudan, og bor i dag i Skottland. Hun har utgitt en rekke romaner, novellesamlinger og skuespill, senest romanen River Spirit i 2023. Nå møter hun Abdulrazak Gurnah til samtale om hans forfatterskap, om å skrive Øst-Afrikas historie, om migrasjon og kolonihistorie, og om de unike menneskeportrettene og relasjonene han skriver fram.Arrangementet ble støttet av NORAD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the first African-born writer to receive the award in close to 20 years. The Swedish Academy awarded Gurnah the prize «for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents».Across the world, more and more readers are discovering Gurnah's body of work. His novels Paradise, Afterlives and Desertion explore the history of East Africa and Zanzibar, while other works, such as Admiring Silence and By the Sea, portray a migrant's encounter with British society. What they all have in common are the memorable characters created by Gurnah, characters that are not heroes, but rather unique in their quiet everydayness, and who often feel alienated from the world around them.Through these characters, Gurnah gives us masterful depictions of a region and its history, of the colonial era, of exile and migration. In a quiet revolution, he shifts the perspective from the familiar, Western narrative to an East African point of view, leading us into great history as seen through the eyes of ordinary people.“Gurnah's novels are stunningly beautiful, immersive and enticing. He exceeds all others in depicting the lives of those made small by injustice and oppression”, writer Leila Aboulela has said about Gurnah's writing, with which she has a strong connection. Aboulela grew up in Sudan, and currently lives in Scotland. She has published a number of plays, short story collections and novels, most recently River Spirit.Aboulela will join Abdulrazak Gurnah for a conversation about his body of work, about writing the history of East Africa, migration, colonial history, and the unique portraits of characters and relationships he gives us in his books.The event was supported by Norad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Extrañezas Cosmopolitas (KRK 2023) es una antología literaria que recopila traducciones de nueve relatos, dos poemas y una pieza teatral escritos por autoras y autores de distintos orígenes y circunstancias: Suhayl Saadi, Leila Aboulela, Tendai Huchu, Fatoumata Fathy Sidibé, Mojisola Adebayo, Marina Lewycka, Simone Lazaroo, Patricia Cottron-Daubigné, Alecia McKenzie, Chika Unigwe, Wayde Compton y A. L. Kennedy. Los textos incluidos en la antología tienen en común su interés por abordar experiencias de extrañamiento y otredad a través de la literatura contemporánea, y comparten un escenario similar: los personajes se enfrentan a cambios vitales sustanciales o a movimientos migratorios físicos, mentales o emocionales, ante los que reaccionan con procesos de asimilación, de adaptación, de aceptación o de hostilidad y marginalización. Todos ellos han sido traducidos al español por primera vez. Entrevista realizada por Elena Igartuburu, Investigadora post-doctoral en literatura y cultura caribeñas con perspectiva de género. Miembro de Intersecciones https://www.intersecciones.net... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extrañezas Cosmopolitas (KRK 2023) es una antología literaria que recopila traducciones de nueve relatos, dos poemas y una pieza teatral escritos por autoras y autores de distintos orígenes y circunstancias: Suhayl Saadi, Leila Aboulela, Tendai Huchu, Fatoumata Fathy Sidibé, Mojisola Adebayo, Marina Lewycka, Simone Lazaroo, Patricia Cottron-Daubigné, Alecia McKenzie, Chika Unigwe, Wayde Compton y A. L. Kennedy. Los textos incluidos en la antología tienen en común su interés por abordar experiencias de extrañamiento y otredad a través de la literatura contemporánea, y comparten un escenario similar: los personajes se enfrentan a cambios vitales sustanciales o a movimientos migratorios físicos, mentales o emocionales, ante los que reaccionan con procesos de asimilación, de adaptación, de aceptación o de hostilidad y marginalización. Todos ellos han sido traducidos al español por primera vez. Entrevista realizada por Elena Igartuburu, Investigadora post-doctoral en literatura y cultura caribeñas con perspectiva de género. Miembro de Intersecciones https://www.intersecciones.net... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extrañezas Cosmopolitas (KRK 2023) es una antología literaria que recopila traducciones de nueve relatos, dos poemas y una pieza teatral escritos por autoras y autores de distintos orígenes y circunstancias: Suhayl Saadi, Leila Aboulela, Tendai Huchu, Fatoumata Fathy Sidibé, Mojisola Adebayo, Marina Lewycka, Simone Lazaroo, Patricia Cottron-Daubigné, Alecia McKenzie, Chika Unigwe, Wayde Compton y A. L. Kennedy. Los textos incluidos en la antología tienen en común su interés por abordar experiencias de extrañamiento y otredad a través de la literatura contemporánea, y comparten un escenario similar: los personajes se enfrentan a cambios vitales sustanciales o a movimientos migratorios físicos, mentales o emocionales, ante los que reaccionan con procesos de asimilación, de adaptación, de aceptación o de hostilidad y marginalización. Todos ellos han sido traducidos al español por primera vez. Entrevista realizada por Elena Igartuburu, Investigadora post-doctoral en literatura y cultura caribeñas con perspectiva de género. Miembro de Intersecciones https://www.intersecciones.net... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Human beings have been telling stories for thousands of years, but what actually makes for a good story? Authors have been trying to settle on the great principles of compelling writing for as long as people have been writing. Yet, as Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro argue, something has gone amiss in these manuals on the art of storytelling: they have tended to privilege a Western perspective. Anappara and Soomro came to Intelligence Squared to talk about their new anthology, Letters to a Writer of Colour, in which they ask us to critically examine the assumptions that shape the way we think fiction should be written. What might fiction look like if we considered alternative ways of constructing narratives that were grounded in the experiences of a person of colour? Together with with two of the contributors to the collection, Sharlene Teo and Leila Aboulela, they explored one of the things we all have a primal need for – stories, and lots of different kinds of them. This podcast was recored on the 4th of April 2023 and was produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye. Editing was by Executive Producer Rowan Slaney — Thanks for listening to this episode of Intelligence Squared! We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2. And if you'd like to get  ad-free access to all Intelligence Squared podcasts, including exclusive bonus content, early access to new episodes and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared today for just £4.99, or the equivalent in your local currency .  Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The writer Sarah Bakewell explores the long tradition of humanist thought in her latest book, Humanly Possible. She celebrates the writers, thinkers, artists and scientists over the last 700 years who have placed humanity at the centre, while defying the forces of religion, fanatics, mystics and tyrants. But placing humans at the centre isn't without problems – critics point to its anthropocentric nature and excessive rationalism and individualism, as well its Euro-centric history. The philosopher Julian Baggini guides the listener in unpicking the tenets of humanism. His latest books is How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking. Humanism may have relegated the divine to the side lines, but for the characters in Leila Aboulela's novels faith and devotion are integral to their sense of themselves. In her latest book, River Spirit, set in Sudan in the 1880s, her young protagonists struggle to survive and find love amidst the bloody struggle for Sudan itself. Producer: Katy Hickman

Leila Aboulela is one of my go-to authors. I know her words are always full of wisdom and inspiration, telling fascinating and insightful stories. I've read quite a few of her books over the last few years, and so I'm so thrilled that she was my guest on the show.In this episode, we talk about her new novel, River Spirit which is out in March 2023, published by Saqi Books in the UK. We also talk about historical fiction, re-centring women in historical narratives, understanding slavery and how it differed over time and throughout the world, and the role that faith plays in Leila's writing. Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including Bird Summons, The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her collection of short stories Elsewhere, Home won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year. Leila's work has been translated into fifteen languages, and her plays The Insider, The Mystic Life and others were broadcast on BBC Radio. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.You can find Leila on instagram on: @leilaaboulela If you enjoyed this episode, please like and follow the podcast on your platform of choice and do consider leaving a review. It helps more people find the podcast.Connnect with me on social media:www.instagram.com/readwithsamiawww.instagram.com/thediversebookshelfpod Support the show

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Leila Aboulela to talk about her latest novel, 'River Spirit', which will be published with Saqi Books on the 7th March. Leila spoke about her reasons for writing it, the research required, her interest in Sudanese history, why this period is so important to the country and its people, exploring history through fiction, managing the balance between real events (and individuals) and fiction, the Scottish strand to the story, and much more. The two also discuss Leila's desire to bring Sudanese and Scottish culture together, the importance of memory, history repeating itself, and Aberdeen's current, and thriving, writing, arts, and culture scene. It's a wonderful and warm conversation with one of Scotland's finest and most admired writers, and we hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did recording it. All the relevant links as to where you can learn more about Leila Aboulela's life and work, and where you can buy a copy of 'River Spirit', are over at scotswhayhae.com

Tayeb Salih in London. The novelist Leila Aboulela meets Henry in London to discuss Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, which was voted the most important Arab novel of the 20th century by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus. The novel is set in both a small village in northern Sudan and various locations in London, the city that Tayeb Salih made his home. Leila and Henry visit Victoria Station, Speaker's Corner, the London Central Mosque, the Old Bailey and Cleopatra's Needle. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Penguin Modern Classics)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57444/season-of-migration-to-the-north-by-tayeb-salih-trans-denys-johnson-davies/9780141187204 Leila Aboulelahttp://www.leila-aboulela.com/ The Translator by Leila Aboulelahttps://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/https://apple.co/3UGl6Uy The Minaret by Leila Aboulelahttps://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/https://apple.co/3xSuwTq London Central Mosquehttps://www.iccuk.org/ The Old Baileyhttps://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tayeb-salih/products/the-wedding-of-zein Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela spoke with host Bhakti Shringarpure about East African and Sudanese literature, about Abdulrazak Gurnah's Nobel prize win, on writing about Muslim lives and Muslim cultures, and the ways in which the exciting shifts in readership across the Muslim world are shifting publishing paradigms. She commented on the ways in which the events of 9/11 and the ensuing wars altered the reception of books by her and other Muslim authors. Leila Aboulela is a writer from Sudan and currently lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. She has published five novels, two short story collections and many radio plays. She was the first every recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing in the year 2000 for her short story "The Museum" and her novels have been long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Aboulela's short-story collection Elsewhere, Home was the winner of the 2018 Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. Bhakti Shringarpure is the Creative Director of the Radical Books Collective and the host for their BookRising podcast.

2021 is being roundly pronounced as “a great year for African writing.” From Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah's Nobel award to South African Damon Galgut nabbing the Booker—the list of African and diaspora writers winning prestigious literary prizes this year is long. Does this represent a paradigm shift in global literature, typically dominated by Western authors? Do these victories do anything to advance African publishing and literary culture? Joining us in this week's AIAC Talk to unpack these themes, are Ainehi Edoro, Bhakti Shringarpure and Leila Aboulela.

Mary Haddow has a dramatic illustration of Perfect Peace. Adrian Plass sympathises with victims of sarcasm. Malcolm Guite updates Psalm 14. Mariella Frostrup quizzes award winning novelist Leila Aboulela about her latest book on Islam.

At last year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, bestselling author Val McDermid and professor of geography Jo Sharp were inspired by the festival theme, We Need New Stories. So inspired, in fact, that they turned to a loveable rogues gallery of Scottish cultural folk to submit a piece of writing about their dreams for a better future. Edited by McDermid and Sharp, Imagine A Country is the fascinating, eclectic and often inspiring result. In this event, recorded live at the 2020 Book Festival, Val McDermid and Jo Sharp host acclaimed writers Doug Johnstone, Jo Clifford and Leila Aboulela, who read their contributions and discuss how we might create a better future for the greatest number of people.

The Sudanese writer on developing a story about the rebuilding of Khartoum

On this episode, Nicole speaks with award winning Sudanese writer, Leila Aboulela. They discuss the role identity plays in the stories we tell, the character development process and unique ways to deal with readers and writers block.

Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer based in Aberdeen, Scotland. An author of 5 novels , 2 short story collections and plays that have been broadcast on the BBC radio. She is also a Caine prize winner. Leila lets us take a peek through her writing journey as a woman of color and of Arabic/ Islamic descent , a voice that's rare and refreshing on the Diasporan-African writer terrain. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucie-chihandae/support

Hosts Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Claire Urqhuart discuss Leila Aboulela's short essay from the book Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future (ed. Val McDermid & Jo Sharp) and the poems 'Coffee Ceremony' by Anne Hay and 'What Work Is' by Philip Levine in this episode of Open Book Unbound. Find out more about us on our website: www.openbookreading.com/unbound Music: Ragland. Image credit: Susan Torkington

As coronavirus crisis unfolds, with its confusion and heartbreak, John McCarthy brings together reflections from people around the world. In this programme he hears stories of compassion. Most religions teach that compassion is what allows us to understand the suffering of others, but you need no faith to give or receive it. Compassion nurtures kindness and charity, both sorely needed now. We hear from Bernard Gabbott, an Anglican minister in rural Australia. His community has suffered years of drought. The rains have only recently arrived. And now they face further hardship as farm machinery and seeds coming from China are delayed due to the virus. How does he balance compassion for his community with the needs of his young family? The Sudan-raised novelist Leila Aboulela thought she would spend Ramadan this year with her mother and she looked forward particularly to the joy of breaking their fast together. Now her mother is instead completely isolated in Cairo. Kindness to others might be at the heart of all faiths, but it is not always practised. How can faith guide the conversations that need to be had with families as we all face the prospect of illness? Are there words to ease the fear of not being able to say goodbye intimately to a loved one? How do we show compassion to children or young people who see this as injustice and maybe even a sign that God has abandoned them? As we face the prospect of a long period of lockdown, could nurturing compassion mean the world emerges as a kinder place? Presenter: John McCarthy Producer: Olive Clancy

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, pop culture, and emotional renewal, hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf. Every week we answer some hypothetical questions as agony aunts, then discuss what we think are the best examples of break-up in media to help cope with heartbreak and focus on the upside of breaking up.Join us in Part Two for discussion of Blue Valentine (2010; Dir. Derek Cianfrance) and Magic Mike XXL (2015; Dir. Gregory Jacobs) and our other recommendations. Big spoilers ahead for both films!Music recommendation:IGOR. Tyler the Creator. Columbia Records. 2019.Book recommendation:Bird Summons. Leila Aboulela. Orion Publishing Co.. 2019.In the first part of our third episode we think about the ramifications of acting on your crush on someone's dad and becoming friends first and romantic interests second.With huge thanks to Laurie Brown for designing our cover art.If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact breakinguppodcast@gmail.com.

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Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2PbqT3p Salma, Moni and Iman are embarking on a road trip to the highlands to pay homage to Lady Evelyn Cobbold, the first Muslim woman of Scotland. The women are looking for more than a holiday. Each wants to escape her life; each wants an answer. Salma came up with the idea for the trip. Born in Egypt, she moved to Scotland for love, giving up her right to practise medicine. Now a successful masseuse, married to David and bringing up their children, she feels that she still has to make an effort to belong. And when her old boyfriend Amir starts messaging her, she is tempted to risk the life she has worked so hard to build. Moni has been caring for her disabled son Adam for five years and is reaching breaking point. Her husband wants them to join him in Saudi Arabia, but Moni is reluctant to uproot her son, taking him to a country where his condition will render him an outcast. Iman, the youngest of the three, in her late twenties and yet on her third husband, is burdened by her beauty. Treated like a pet by her lovers and friends, she longs to be alone and free. On a remote hillside in Inverness, each woman is visited by the Hoopoe, a messenger bird of Islamic lore, and forced to question how much they have sacrificed in the name of love. Bird Summons is a haunting, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and religion, faith and culture collide - confirming Leila Aboulela as a leading storyteller of our times. (p) Orion Publishing Group Ltd with Audible Studios 2019

Leila talks in-depth to Donna about her life in writing as an award winning novelist and playwright. Leila moved to Aberdeen following her husband with a baby and small child. Even though she had never considered being an author she frequented the library and found solace in the feminist novels she read. Reading inspired Leila to write.  #RadioGorgeous #Author #Syria

Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-born writer whose work, written in English, has received critical acclaim and a high profile for its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. Highlighting the challenges facing Muslims in Europe and “telling the stories of flawed complex characters who struggle to make choices using Muslim logic”, Aboulela's work explores significant political issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Draft interview with Leila Aboulela

In this month's Africa: Stories in the 55, we take a look at two award-winning writers - Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, and Leila Abulela, Sudanese novelist - who speak about the influences on their craft. Life in Somalia becomes increasingly difficult before the start of the country's civil war. The lives of two women and a girl intertwine in the final days before chaos breaks out in The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed. Partially inspired by her own grandmother, Mohamed speaks to Stories in the 55 about her novel, current writing and reads an excerpt from her award-winning work: Manoeuvering within British academia is something Natasha Wilson (née Hussein) struggles with while working on research about Imam Shamil, a 19th century Caucasian Muslim leader. But life becomes increasingly difficult when her favourite student is accused of jihadist tendencies. Showing Shamil's personal struggle with Russian imperialists in parallel to Khartoum-born Natasha's own identity crisis, novelist Leila Aboulela talks about her writing process in The Kindness of Enemies: a Novel. She also speaks about her own return to Khartoum and why her next novel is a Scottish-based fantasy:

This month World Book Club talks to Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela about her award-winning novel Minaret. This poignant and lyrical tale traces the journey of a young woman, Najwa, who is forced to flee her native Khartoum in Sudan, amidst conflict and political turmoil and exchange it for the anonymity of London. Drawing on her own experience, Leila Aboulela creates a rich and moving narrative, exploring the fault lines between traditional Islamic culture and the modern, cosmopolitan life of Western Europe. This beautiful, challenging novel traces Najwa’s struggle with bigotry and faith; isolation and love as she attempts to make sense of her new life and surroundings whilst not losing sight of her roots and heritage.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Leila Aboulela about her new novel The Kindness of Enemies.