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Farah Ahamed
Farah Ahamed’s short stories and essays have been published in PloughsharesThe Mechanics’ Institute Review, and The Massachusetts Review, amongst others. Her non-fiction anthology Period Matters, on menstruation experiences in South Asia, is forthcoming from Pan Macmillan, India. She is currently working on a novel, Days without Sun which is about friendship and survival and follows Amanullah, a traditional maker of sweets in the backstreets of Lahore.

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Queen Victoria in the Basement

Fiction

August 2021

Farah Ahamed

Fiction

August 2021

Dear Mr Chairman,   Sir,   Yesterday, after I switched on the spotlight so that you could see the Queen properly, you covered your...

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Interview

February 2011

Interview with Manfredi Beninati

Lowenna Waters

Interview

February 2011

Time, memory, the landscape of the mind, manifestation and metamorphosis, resurgence and collapse and the crisp crust of Sicilian...

fiction

January 2016

By the River

Esther Kinsky

TR. Martin Chalmers

fiction

January 2016

  For Aljoscha   ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY   Under my finger the map, this quiet pale blue of the...

feature

July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

feature

July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

 

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