Home: It’s Complicated
This is a past event and is no longer available for booking - please head to our What's On page for our current programme
Home: It’s Complicated
Saba Karim Khan, Selali Fiamanya & Yousif M Qasmiyeh
Join us for a powerful and insightful conversation as three writers explore the shifting landscapes – and their own unique experiences – of home and belonging, in conversation with television and radio presenter Nikki Bedi.
Bringing together a Pakistani filmmaker, a Scottish-Ghanian doctor and a Palestinian poet, this event will unpack what it means to be home and whether one place can offer this for those who have left their birthplace. Through poetry, prose, and personal reflection, they will delve into what it means to belong, to leave, and to carry fragments of home across borders and generations.
In Saba Khan’s recently published anthology, contributing writers of Pakistani origin explore their relationship with home. Selali Fiamanya’s debut novel is set between Ghana and Glasgow, and delves into themes of identity, love, language and belonging. Yousif M Qasmiyeh is a Palestinian poet and researcher whose work explores his experience growing up in Baddawi refugee camp, memory and displacement.
About the authors
Saba Karim Khan is an author, award-winning filmmaker and educator whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and Huff Post. She has recently edited an anthology of Pakistani writers exploring their relationship with home, discussing themes
ideas of identity, family, politics, migration and more.
Selali Fiamanya works as a doctor in the UK and was born and raised in Glasgow, with a couple of years spent in Accra, Ghana. He was named runner-up in the 2021 Pontas & JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize, and won The Borough Press open submission competition with his debut novel Before We Hit the Ground.
Yousif M Qasmiyeh is a Palestinian researcher and poet who was born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in North Lebanon. His debut poetry collection Writing the Camp was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and was one of the Daily Telegraph’s Best Poetry Books of the Year.
Limited number of free tickets to residents in postcodes CR4, CR7, SM3 and SM4 (restricted to two free tickets per event, per household).
Under-30s tickets : £6.50