Podcast appearances and mentions of Sabrina Mahfouz

In advance of their event at Shakespeare and Company this February 8th, poets Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen answer our café's Proust Questionnaire. Be warned, this gets saucy quickly…Find out more about their event here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/hollie-mcnish-michael-pedersen*Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet, writer and performer.She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Slug (and other things I've been told to hate) and won the Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry with her poetry and parenting memoir Nobody Told Me. She has two further poetry collections, Plum and Cherry Pie, one modern adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone and alongside fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz, co-wrote Offside, a play relating the history of UK women's football. She loves writing and her live readings are not to be missed.Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, and the current Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. He's published three acclaimed collections of poetry, with the title poem from his third, The Cat Prince & Other Poems, currently shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prizes. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews in the UK and North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. Pedersen has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. His work has attracted praise from the likes of Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Shirley Manson, Maggie Smith and many more. He also co-founded the prize-winning literary collective Neu! Reekie!.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Dream Space, Sabrina Mahfouz invites us into her triple-room extravaganza featuring nostalgic '90s beats, pastel colours and a collaborative fine art space.Sabrina Mahfouz is a multifaceted playwright, lyricist, poet and screenwriter. Her critically acclaimed work includes the theatre adaptation of Noughts & Crosses and memoir These Bodies of Water. She explores themes around class, inequality and her British, Egyptian and Guyanese heritage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 29 September 2022, Manchester International Festival officially announced its plans for the opening of its new permanent performance venue, to be called Factory International, in the St John's area of Manchester city centre. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to John E McGrath, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of both Manchester International Festival and Factory International, about what the new building would provide for Manchester and the international arts scene, as well as about the opening production, Free Your Mind, a stage adaptation of the film The Matrix directed by Danny Boyle with a script by Sabrina Mahfouz, music by Mikey J Asante, choreography by Kenrick Sandy and design by Es Devlin. Following this, you can follow us on a tour of the building led by lead architect Ellen van Loon of OMA and Creative Director Low Key Hong. Free Your Mind will run from 18 October to 5 November 2023, and tickets are now on sale. (Photo of John E McGrath at the Factory International Launch, credit: James Speakman / PA Wire)

In this Book Club, we talked to Sabrina Mahfouz about her book "These Bodies of Water."  The novel is about imperialism, and the history of the Middle Eastern coastlines and waterways that were vital to the British Empire's hold.Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer, performer and educator. Her first short play, That Boy, was performed at the Soho Theatre in 2010 and won a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights. In 2011, she was Creative in Residence at The Hospital Club. In the same year, she produced her first solo show, Dry Ice, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won her the Stage Award for Acting Excellence. Subsequent plays, which include Clean (2012) and Chef (2014), have been performed at the Fringe, the Soho Theatre, the Roundhouse and in New York, and have won numerous awards, including a Fringe First and an Off West End Award in 2018 for the children's show Zeraffa Giraffa. Her 2015 play With A Little Bit of Luck was also adapted as a radio drama for BBC Radio 1Xtra. Most recently, her adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses for Pilot Theatre went on tour around the country. Her latest book, These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet, was published in 2022.Created and hosted by Mikey MuhannaEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About Book Club:Book Club is an interview series that calls for afikra community members, who are interested in literature and reading, to spend time reading along with the entire community. Books in Arabic and English will be announced on afikra's reading list and the members will be asked to do the reading at home at their leisure and then join afikra for a conversation with the authors of those books. Every two weeks, a conversation will be held with an author to discuss their work and the book in particular. Individuals joining the call will be expected to have read the book and prepared questions regarding the context, motivation, and background stories. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

Welcome to "How To Be...", guiding you through life's tricky topics and skills by reading through the best books out there. Selective amnesia has allowed deep misunderstandings about nations to become embedded in the public imagination, enabling large proportions of the population. So why is it important to learn an accurate version of history? Hence, I spoke to poet and These Bodies of Water author Sabrina Mahfouz on why it is important to learn about accurate history, as well as other experts' books to see if their advice can help all of us. I also heard from others who have gained some mastery over themselves. Please hit subscribe to hear the whole series on life skills! It should be short and sweet. I look forward to journeying with you through this maze of hacks.Trigger warning: References to slavery, police brutality, colonialism, sexual and physical violence.

Are you not made of Suez silt? How do we know you won't shore our boats by making yourself bigger than we made you? Sabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage, could she really be trusted? Years later, Sabrina found herself confronting the meaning behind this interrogation, and how it was specifically informed by the British Empire's historical dominance in the Middle East. These Bodies of Water investigates this history through the Middle Eastern coastlines and waterways that were so vital to the empire's hold. Interwoven with her own personal experiences, Sabrina combines history, politics, myth and poetry in a devastating examination of this unacknowledged part of Britain's colonial past. Part history, part polemic and part intimate memoir, These Bodies of Water is a tapestry of writing that tells the story of Britain's relationship with the Middle East in the most revealing terms.

Na velikem odru Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega so uprizorili zadnjo premiero sezone – Junakinje v režiji Aleksandra Popovskega. Nastanek besedila je povezan s pandemijo – v londonskem gledališču Jermyn Street so leta 2020 povabili 15 britanskih avtoric, naj za spletne nastope petnajstih igralk napišejo monološka besedila po motivih Ovidovih Heroid. V Mestnem gledališču so jih izbrali 9, prevedla jih je Alenka Klabus Vesel. Dodatno besedilo moškega lika je napisal Nejc Gazvoda. Lettie Precious, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hannah Khalil, Stella Duffy, Isley Lynn, Chinonyerem Odimba, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Samantha Ellis, Juliet Gilkes Romero, Nejc Gazvoda 15 Heroines, 2021 Prva slovenska uprizoritev Premiera: 12. maj 2022 Prevajalka Alenka Klabus Vesel Režiser in scenograf Aleksandar Popovski Dramaturginja Eva Mahkovic Kostumografka Mia Popovska Avtor glasbe Kiril Džajkovski Lektorica Barbara Rogelj Svetovalka za gib Anja Möderndorfer Asistent scenografa Janez Koleša Asistentka dramaturginje in režiserja Urša Majcen Oblikovalec svetlobe Andrej Koležnik Oblikovalec zvoka Sašo Dragaš Nastopajo Viktorija Bencik Emeršič, Ajda Smrekar, Judita Zidar, Tanja Ribič, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Julita Kropec k.g., Mirjam Korbar, Tjaša Železnik, Veronika Železnik k.g., Jernej Gašperin Foto: Veronika Železnik, Tjaša Železnik, Mirjam Korbar, Julita Kropec, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Tanja Ribič, Judita Zidar, Ajda Smrekar, Viktorija Bencik Emeršič Avtor fotografije je Peter Giodani https://www.mgl.si/sl/predstave/junakinje/#gallery-1321-1 Besedilo sodobnih britanskih avtoric po motivih Ovidovih Heroid je režiral Aleksandar PopovskiNa velikem odru Mestnega gledališča ljubljanskega so uprizorili zadnjo premiero sezone – Junakinje v režiji Aleksandra Popovskega. Nastanek besedila je povezan s pandemijo – v londonskem gledališču Jermyn Street so leta 2020 povabili 15 britanskih avtoric, naj za spletne nastope petnajstih igralk napišejo monološka besedila po motivih Ovidovih Heroid. V Mestnem gledališču so jih izbrali 9, prevedla jih je Alenka Klabus Vesel. Dodatno besedilo moškega lika je napisal Nejc Gazvoda. Lettie Precious, Sabrina Mahfouz, Hannah Khalil, Stella Duffy, Isley Lynn, Chinonyerem Odimba, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Samantha Ellis, Juliet Gilkes Romero, Nejc Gazvoda 15 Heroines, 2021 Prva slovenska uprizoritev Premiera: 12. maj 2022 Prevajalka Alenka Klabus Vesel Režiser in scenograf Aleksandar Popovski Dramaturginja Eva Mahkovic Kostumografka Mia Popovska Avtor glasbe Kiril Džajkovski Lektorica Barbara Rogelj Svetovalka za gib Anja Möderndorfer Asistent scenografa Janez Koleša Asistentka dramaturginje in režiserja Urša Majcen Oblikovalec svetlobe Andrej Koležnik Oblikovalec zvoka Sašo Dragaš Nastopajo Viktorija Bencik Emeršič, Ajda Smrekar, Judita Zidar, Tanja Ribič, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Julita Kropec k.g., Mirjam Korbar, Tjaša Železnik, Veronika Železnik k.g., Jernej Gašperin Foto: Veronika Železnik, Tjaša Železnik, Mirjam Korbar, Julita Kropec, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Tanja Ribič, Judita Zidar, Ajda Smrekar, Viktorija Bencik Emeršič Avtor fotografije je Peter Giodani

Ep 55: Whiteness and identity - British Egyptian writer Sabrina Mahfouz is an author, editor, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and TV writer (Netflix and Amazon Studios). Her debut non-fiction book, 'These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet' (May 2022)explores questions of identity and belonging - she joins me to talk about growing up in the 9/11 shadow, her egyptian roots and representation in TV.

Finding power in the things we're told to hate. My guest is Hollie McNish, writer and poet. We explore her  upcoming book “SLUG and other things I was told to hate” and SO much more. We talk masturbation, grief, feminism, being blunt and of course, her poetry.  PRE-ORDER MY BOOK >>  NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood https://www.triumphpress.co/books/p/noise  Hollie McNish is a UK writer based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She has published three collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum – a play relating the history of UK women's football – Offside, co-written with Sabrina Mahfouz - and one poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me – of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book' and which won the Ted Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry. Her poems have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish and Japanese and she has performed them worldwide alongside the likes of Irvine Welsh, Kae Tempest, Jackie Kay, Helen Pankhurst and Young Fathers.Her forthcoming title – Slug: and other things I've been told to hate – is to be released in May 2021 with Fleet, Hachette. Read the full show notes over on our website: >> https://www.schoolformothers.com/podcast_sfm/118-slug-hollie-mcnish/ School for Mothers Website ●  School For Mothers Private Facebook Group ● School for Mothers Instagram

Dr Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music tells John Wilson of his fears and hopes for music-making as his country falls under the control of the Taliban. Some things can only be expressed in song. That's the idea behind The Song Project at the Royal Court Theatre where five of our foremost female playwrights - E.V. Crowe, Sabrina Mahfouz, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Stef Smith and Debris Stevenson - collaborate with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, choreographer Imogen Knight, designer Chloe Lamford and the Dutch singer Wende, who will be performing the songs. These explore the hopes and anxieties women face, diving into the messiness of birth, death, rage, grace, friendship, motherhood, mothers, loss and ageing. So, the whole of life and its end, then. Chloe Lamford and Wende talk to John Wilson about the project and Wende, accompanied by Nils Davidse sings, live, one of the songs. The Manchester Collective are making their debut at the Proms tomorrow. Founder Adam Szabo explains the ethos behind the group, why music genre shouldn't get in the way of programming, and bringing little-known composers to light. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May Studio Manager: Sue Maillot Production Co-ordinator: Hilary Buchanan

We're heading to the barely dystopian world of Albion today in the newest play adaptation of Malorie Blackman's 2002 powerful award winning YA novel Noughts and Crosses. Meg relives her teenage years devouring the original novels and Lexie gives a TED talk on the history of skin coloured bandages.Co Hosted by Lexie Ward and Meg Robinson.Music By Connor Barton (Sethera Sound Design)Find SCRIPT IN HAND on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook  - Give us a like/follow to keep up to date with episode information and extra content.EPISODE BIOMalorie Blackman websitehttps://www.malorieblackman.co.ukSabrina Mahfouz websitehttp://www.sabrinamahfouz.comWhats on Stage Reviewhttps://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/noughts-crosses-stratford-east-malorie-blackman_48953.htmlUK Tour Infohttps://www.pilot-theatre.com/past-work/noughts-crossesProduction Trailerwww.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvhJ8z8zAAExeunt Magazine Review and thoughts on YA Theatrehttp://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-noughts-crosses-derby-theatre/Malorie Blackman Penguin Featurehttps://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/mar/malorie-blackman-why-she-wrote-noughts-crosses.htmlMalorie Blackman Q&Ahttps://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/noughts-and-crosses-qa/The Story of the Black Band-Aid - The Atlantic Article 2003https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/the-story-of-the-black-band-aid/276542/Tru-Colour Bandageshttps://trucolourbandages.com/blogs/blog/history-of-black-bandages

A timely session which brings together a cross section of voices and perspectives to understand feminism and its kaleidoscopic dimensions. Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey looking at the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, in her latest book In Search of Mary. Mariam Khan in her anthology It’s Not About The Burqa, writes about why feminism needs to die. Both of these writers, alongside playwright, poet and editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, Sabrina Mahfouz discuss the ways in which feminism has changed over the years. The three committed writers come together to inform us, critique and reframe feminism for contemporary women. In conversation with Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi.

Finding power in the things we’re told to hate. My guest is Hollie McNish, writer and poet. We explore her  upcoming book “SLUG and other things I was told to hate” and SO much more. We talk masturbation, grief, feminism, being blunt and of course, her poetry.  PRE-ORDER MY BOOK >>  NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood https://www.triumphpress.co/books/p/noise Hollie McNish is a UK writer based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She has published three collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum – a play relating the history of UK women’s football – Offside, co-written with Sabrina Mahfouz - and one poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me – of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’ and which won the Ted Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry. Her poems have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish and Japanese and she has performed them worldwide alongside the likes of Irvine Welsh, Kae Tempest, Jackie Kay, Helen Pankhurst and Young Fathers.Her forthcoming title – Slug: and other things I’ve been told to hate – is to be released in May 2021 with Fleet, Hachette.Read the full show notes over on our website >> https://www.schoolformothers.com/podcast_sfm/118-slug-hollie-mcnish/ School for Mothers Website ●  School For Mothers Private Facebook Group ● School for Mothers Instagram

Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, sitting in for Michael Rosen, talks to producer Tobi Kyeremateng and classicist Professor Katherine Harloe about othering in language: describing people in ways that exclude them and make them seem lesser. Translations of the classics have been politicised in identity terms, for example adding in 'white skin' in where it didn't exist. The current language around 'BAME' and "BIPOC" is contentious, even if people think they are being helpful. The opposite of this is the power of language to include. What are the ways forward from here? Image copyright : Greg Morrison Suggestions for further reading from Professor Harloe: There is much current debate within Classics over the racialised hierarchies based on skin colour and other physical features that existed in the ancient world, about how ideas about Greek and Roman culture have functioned to bolster and uphold White supremacist ideas, past and present. Much, though not all, of this scholarship is being done by woman classicists of colour. Aimee Hinds, a classicist and art historian, has written essays on “Hercules in White: Classical Reception, Art and Myth” and “Pygmalion, Polychromy and Inclusiveness in Classics’ about the pernicious effects of the Whitewashing of the ancient world in modern artistic traditions, scholarship and educational contexts. Dr Sarah Derbew’s research concerns the ways in which race and skin colour are represented and theorised in ancient Greek literature and art. Dr Mai Musié is an expert on the representation of Persians and Ethiopians in ancient Greek novels. Shelley P. Haley, Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, has been applying Black feminist approaches and critical race theory to study of Classics. Key essays of hers that discuss anti-blackness in classical translations include “Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies,” in Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies and "Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-membering, Re-claiming, Re-empowering" in Feminist Theory and the Classics. Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer, raised in London and Cairo. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and resident writer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Her most recent theatre show was A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court) and her most recent publications as editor include Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (Saqi) and Poems From a Green and Blue Planet (Hachette Children's).

Samuel Graydon reviews two new albums, by the folk troubadour Sam Lee and indie rock band Cornershop, both of which offer innovative and intelligent musical perspectives on modern England; the TLS’s arts editor Lucy Dallas presents this month’s ‘Audio/Visual’, a monthly round-up of listening and watching; Josephine Livingstone grapples with the 'omnivore paradox' in the arts sector: why broader tastes in art have not led to wider participationFeatured works Old Wow by Sam LeeEngland is a Garden by CornershopAudio: ‘Reply All’, the podcastVisual: ‘Five Guys a Week’, Channel 4Entitled: Discriminating tastes and the expansion of the arts by Jennifer C. LenaSteal as Much as You Can: How to win the culture wars in an age of austerity by Nathalie OlahSmashing It: Working class artists on life, art and making it happen, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For this first episode of the new season, Chris meets writer and performer Sabrina Mahfouz at Shakespeare's Globe for a conversation about her practice and perspective. http://www.sabrinamahfouz.com Please feel free to respond: podcast@chrisgoodeonline.com or you can comment and rate us at Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts. See you next Friday!

Playwright, poet, performer, presenter, screenwriter, anthologist and librettist Sabrina Mahfouz has written and produced up to twenty plays in the last ten years. She is a compelling performer, passionate and witty and savage and self-deprecating by turn, and her energy has driven one of the most dizzyingly prolific and formally surprising careers in contemporary British Theatre.

The Guilty Feminist Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Susan Wokoma Episode 171: Fresh Starts with special guests Sabrina Mahfouz, Chris Whitehead and Reem Othman Recorded 7 September 2019 at Kings Place in London. Released 14 October 2019. The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon. Photo by Kobi Omenaka. More about Deborah Frances-White http://deborahfrances-white.com https://twitter.com/DeborahFW https://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-book More about Susan Wokoma https://twitter.com/siwokoma https://www.channel4.com/programmes/year-of-the-rabbit https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006pkj More about Sabrina Mohfouz https://twitter.com/SabrinaMahfouz http://www.sabrinamahfouz.com https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/ahistoryofwater https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smashing-Working-Artists-Making-Happen/dp/1908906405 https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/titles/sabrina-mahfouz/poems-from-a-green-and-blue-planet/9781444951257/ More about Seek UK https://twitter.com/helloseek https://www.seekuk.org https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the-ban https://www.linkedin.com/in/reem-othman-27902276/ For more information about this and other episodes… visit guiltyfeminist.com tweet us twitter.com/guiltfempod like our Facebook page facebook.com/guiltyfeminist check out our Instagram instagram.com/theguiltyfeminist or join our mailing list eepurl.com/bRfSPT Guilty Feminist jewellery is now available https://www.road-from-damascus.co.uk The Negotiations special episode of the podcast is now available to purchase. http://guiltyfeminist.com/product/include-yourself-podcast/ Come to a live recording! Monday 21 October, Kings Place in London. Tickets on sale now. Tuesday 5 November, Manchester podcast festival. Tickets on sale now. Wednesday 6 November, Dublin podcast festival. Tickets on sale now. Tuesday 3 December, Secret Policeman’s Ball in Manchester. Tickets on sale now. Monday 9 December, Kings Place in London. Tickets on sale now. Saturday 4 January, Gramercy Theater New York. Tickets on sale now. Leave us a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts!

Joining Eleanor Penny this week are poets Sabrina Mahfouz, Geraldine Clarkson and Stuart Buck. Together they explore our relationship with mythical characters; re-imagining stories of Prometheus, Bluebeard, and the little-known Lob Lie-by-the-fire, who'll do your housework in return for a saucer of milk.   Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Writer Sabrina Mahfouz is this month's Slow Readers Book Club. She'll be discussing her latest play at the Royal Court - A History of Water in the Middle East Sabrina, who is British Egyptian, grew up with ambitions of being a spy but was turned down by MI6. After turning her attention to writing she has won numerous awards and has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sabrina is the editor of 'The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write' and is currently editing a new creative anthology Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen which includes contributions from the likes of Riz Ahmed and Maxine Peak and a children's poetry anthology Poems From a Green and Blue Planet both of which will be out in early October. She is also currently writing a biopic of the legendary 'Godfather of Grime', Wiley.

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World returns on Monday 16 September, bringing you another six episodes of poetry for our apocalyptic age. Each episode will feature brand new poetry from some of the best UK poets, including: Malika Booker, Andrew McMillan, Sabrina Mahfouz, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Jack Underwood and many more. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss en episode. For more information visit endoftheworldpodcast.com, or contact us on Twitter or Instagram @goodbyeworldpod

In this episode of Think Aloud we turn our attention to poetry, and sit down with the London poet and founder of poetry collective Out-Spoken, Anthony Anaxagorou. With him we delve into how poetry can rewrite history, the ways in which he has developed and established his own voice, and how, when this is not a poem, he is not a poet. We also hear from South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, for whom breaking established rules has been key to her poetry, on why the language of women comes from more than just the mouth. "I mean as a kid I absolutely despised poetry...it was as dry as trigonometry… it was like looking at a traffic cone” 
 ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU Out-Spoken’s year-long residency at Southbank Centre continues on 20 June with poetry from Ilya Kaminsky, Kei Miller and Sabrina Mahfouz and live music from Gabriella Vixen and Lloyd Llewellyn. Book tickets and find out more: http://bit.ly/2MgMvgH

PHENOMENAL WOMEN SPEAK OUT While comedy still struggles with gender equality, the spoken word scene is well used to its biggest, most exciting exports being female. Following in the footsteps of Kate Tempest and Hollie McNish, we bring you some of the most exciting new talents in spoken word. Jemima Foxtrot, Iona Lee, Sabrina Mahfouz and Sophia Walker perform their work relating to (and not relating to) themes of womanhood. Chaired by Becky Fincham. Part of our Babble On - Spoken Word series of events.

Gillian Clarke, Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet Wilfred Owen with their own new commissions from the Royal Society of Literature. Shahidha Bari hosts a discussion recorded with an audience at the British Library on the 100th anniversary of Owen's death during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal on 4 November 1918, exactly 7 days (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice which ended World War I. Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke’s work has been on the GCSE and A Level exam syllabus for the past thirty years. She was the first woman to win the Wilfred Owen Award – for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems – in 2012. Sabrina Mahfouz was brought up in London and Cairo, and is a playwright, poet, novelist and editor. She was elected an RSL Fellow in 2018. Poet and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael Symmons Roberts grew up less than a mile from Greenham Common and has often written about the Cold War ‘peace’. Producer: Fiona McLean

This week Mikill Pane is joined by one part of previous guests The Beatbox Collective, Rupert Oldridge. They have a chat filled with plenty of high-brow topics, including cannibalism & public pooing and Mikill tries his hand at beat-boxing. To bring the tone up a bit Sabrina Mahfouz came into the studio to talk about writing the Wiley biopic, confusing lexicon and the Critics of Colour Collective. After that in the studio was Marci Phonix to talk about the hard hitting issues happening right now that inspired his latest single ‘Liberties'. Rounding off the show The New Machine joined in to chat about his new material and play the game inspired by him, ‘The Boys Who Cried Wolf'.

This week Mikill Pane is joined by one part of previous guests The Beatbox Collective, Rupert Oldridge. They have a chat filled with plenty of high-brow topics, including cannibalism & public pooing and Mikill tries his hand at beat-boxing. To bring the tone up a bit Sabrina Mahfouz came into the studio to talk about writing the Wiley biopic, confusing lexicon and the Critics of Colour Collective. After that in the studio was Marci Phonix to talk about the hard hitting issues happening right now that inspired his latest single ‘Liberties’. Rounding off the show The New Machine joined in to chat about his new material and play the game inspired by him, ‘The Boys Who Cried Wolf’.

"I found myself on a stage at the age of 25 with a piece of paper in my hand, shaking like I was connected to the core of the earth..."Renowned writer and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz offers her warm and funny contribution to the 100 voices for 100 years project. In her warts-and-all piece Sabrina explains how she used to think that the only people who could pick up the mic were men. Until she did it.

Harriett Gilbert, Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz talk about their favourite books. Joanna chooses The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald. Sabrina's choice is Omar Robert Hamilton's The City Always Wins, and Harriett's is Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham.

While comedy still struggles with gender equality, the spoken word scene is well used to its biggest, most exciting exports being female. Following in the footsteps of Kate Tempest and Hollie McNish, we bring you some of the most exciting new talents in spoken word. Jemima Foxtrot, Iona Lee, Sabrina Mahfouz and Sophia Walker perform their work relating to (and not relating to) themes of womanhood. Chaired by Becky Fincham.

BLOOD: Life Uncut is a four part series that collides diverse perspectives exploring questions about blood. Is Sickle Cell Anaemia a black disease? In the first episode Science Gallery London presenters Femi and Jessie talk to a Haematologist and a Clinical Psychologist; catch up the Sickle Cell Society and Sickle Cell Warrior Chantelle Pierre, and squeeze in the premiere of a new poem by Sabrina Mahfouz. Visit http://apple.co/2fB4Buw for more.

BLOOD: Life Uncut from Science Gallery London, is a four part series that aired on Resonance FM in October 2017. It explores questions about blood from a range of diverse voices. In the fourth and final episode we listen to Sabrina Mahfouz read her collection of poetry 'Bloodlines' written especially for the BLOOD season. We also hear from curator Andy Franzkowiak, a few of the artists who inspired the collection and a quick blood story from Daniel Glaser. Visit london.sciencegallery.com/blood/london/ for details of the accompanying exhibition and event series in South London.

For more Fringe tips, our blog has a long list of Edinburgh shows we recommend seeing, and a shorter but more detailed list of our Fringe #FeministFaves.   If you're not in Edinburgh, never fear! The majority of the shows that do well at the Fringe will tour across the country, so make sure you get them on your radar ahead of their inevitable future success.   Tanya Loretta Dee is starring in Offside by Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish @ Pleasance Courtyard 15:40 Tanya's #FeministFave is The Color Purple, originally a book by Alice Walker, adapted into a film in 1985 starring Whoopi Goldberg, and a Broadway musical, which is touring the US later this year.   Comedy duo 'Britney', aka Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson, are starring in Britney in: John @ Bedlam Theatre 18:30 We talked about Britney's previous show on Episode 2: Live from Vault Festival.   Rebecca Humphries is the writer of Prom Kween @ Underbelly Cowgate 20:35 Rebecca's #FeministFave is Julia Davis: comedian, actress, writer, director and producer, most famously creator and star of the comedy series Nighty Night.   This episode was recorded far from home (and our usual recording equipment) so please forgive the variable sound quality.   Thanks to Funny Women, The Gilded Balloon and Apex Hotel for our locations.  

In this episode, Stance hears about the epidemic of sexual harassment facing the tech world, with a female entrepreneur who shares her alleged experience of sexual harassment at the hands of a renowned investor. Heta and Chrystal explore the tech industry at large looking at what needs to change with regards to representation in gender and race, and why it is critical to the future of tech. They profile Sabrina Mahfouz, one of London's most promising playwrights, poets and screenwriters. Lastly, they hear two Yemeni voices on the war in Yemen and how it has become one of the world's most pressing humanitarian crises. They ask what is it like on the ground and will there ever be a unified Yemen again? Join the conversation @stancepodcast on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

A special mini-episode of Book Shambles this week as Robin and Josie go all broadsheet and breakfast TV and present their recommended summer reading, or nuclear winter if you prefer, list. Expect Rebecca Fox, Oscar Zarate, Kate Grenville, Sabrina Mahfouz, Nikesh Shukla and more. Support the podcast via Patreon at cosmicshambles.com/bookshambles

SLAMbassadors Artistic Director Joelle Taylor speaks to poet Sabrina Mahfouz in this Poetry Society podcast, to discuss How You Might Know Me, Sabrina's new poetic exploration of women who work in the sex industry. They also speak on the surprising ways that fashion, immigrant and queer cultures intersect, the battle for cultural recognition fought by today's spoken word artists, and more. Sabrina reads her poem 'Why I Can't Marry You', taken from her new book. How You Might Know Me launches on 26 October with Out-Spoken Press. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk

John Wilson reports from the Edinburgh Fringe as he talks to comedian Phill Jupitus about about his love of art and drawing, which has inspired his new Edinburgh Fringe event Sketch Comic. Jonathan Glazer remembers Lauren Bacall. Sabrina Mahfouz and Jade Anouka, the writer and performer behind a new award-winning Edinburgh monologue drama Chef, and comedian Sara Pascoe on her new stand-up show which covers Darwin, Freud and Napoleon's love life. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Jerome Weatherald.

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Sabrina Mahfouz. SABRINA MAHFOUZ began training as a civil servant after a Masters in International diplomacy but she then turned to writing poetry and prose and her first piece for theatre, That Boy, was performed at the Soho Theatre in 2010 and won a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights. Since then, she has won a UK Young Artists Award 2011 for poetry; an IdeasTap Innovator Award for theatre and one for poetry and she won a place on the Old Vic's TS Eliot Exchange 2011 to New York. She is currently Creative in Residence for Theatre & Poetry at The Hospital Club and will be the 2012 Leverhulme Trust Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre. Her recent solo show about a young stripper, Dry Ice, won widespread critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011 and was nominated for The Stage Award for Best Solo Performance. In 2012 Sabrina was nominated as World Economic Forum Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Sabrina has been part of the writers programs at The Royal Opera House and The Royal Court and a playwright on attachment with Tamasha. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

Poetry from Sabrina Mahfouz and comedy from our Cambridge researchers

From Daniel Knauf's eerily unsettling and nightmarish horror fable “Bye, Bye Blackbird” to “Flat Pack Pirate”, Sabrina Mahfouz's slick and chilling tale of domestic paranoia, there's something to chill even the hardened ghost lover. And if you want your shot of horror laced with a hint of violent realism, we have an exclusive extract from Sam Hawken's Tequila Sunset to see you through into the morning hours. There is also a short story from A. J. Kirby and an especially commissioned poem by Helen Mort. We are particularly excited about Giles Anderson's piece, "The Ghost in the (Fruit) Machine", which is his first fictional submission. The post Litro #119: Ghosts appeared first on Litro Magazine.

Two short films recently premiered at BAFTA in London as part of a project to support emerging talent. Me and My Latitude is a collaboration between BAFTA and Festival Republic, organisers of Latitude, the yearly arts and music festival. Last year two filmmakers were chosen to each make a short film about an artist preparing to perform at Latitude 2011, with the aim of reflecting the diversity and inventiveness of the UK arts scene. Caroline Bridges has made Knife Edge, which shows dance theatre company Lost Dog in action at the festival, whilst Sameer Patel has directed She Want Soul, a portrait of poet and writer Sabrina Mahfouz. Both films screened last night at BAFTA’s Run Run Shaw Theatre in London and will also feature in the line-up for Latitude’s Film & Music Arena in 2012, which is partly programmed in partnership with BAFTA. I spoke with Catherine and Sameer about their experiences making the films just after the screening. The Latitude Festival takes place from July 12th – 15th and the Orange British Film Academy Awards is on February 12th > BAFTA: http://www.bafta.org > Latitude Festival: http://www.latitudefestival.co.ukFile Download (0:00 min / 17 MB)

One of our favourite performance poets, Sabrina Mahfouz, treats us to three pieces from her upcoming solo show, 'Dry Ice', happening Wednesday 20 April 2011 - Saturday 23 April 2011 (bag your tickets now now now). Check out Sabrina's facebook page for details of other happenings & all sorts of other shiny things.