Tag: postcolonial
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On Memory: An Evening with Palestinian Writers
London, October 29th– The Arab British Centre hosted an event on Memory with four displaced Palestinian artists. During a brief presentation, I learnt that the ABC is a registered charity which promotes Arabic culture, language and knowledge in the UK and aims to enhance relationships of respect, support and collaboration. In fact, it is one of […]
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From the pages of “The Handsworth Times”, a novel by Sharon Duggal
This is a extract from 2016 novel The Handsworth Times by Sharon Duggal, set in the early ’80s in the rioting Birmingham area and in the middle of a job crisis. I found it quite an easy reading, although I got somehow absorbed into this family tragedy some controversial aspects came out of it and […]