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The Diverse Bookshelf Podcast
United Kingdom
Приєднався 27 вер 2011
Welcome to The Diverse Bookshelf, where I interview authors from under-represented communities, exploring the themes and issues they write about with honesty, nuance and depth! This is a weekly show, with podcast episodes dropping on all platforms every Tuesday :)
On this channel, I'll also be sharing book reviews and recommendations, as well as special Q&As, behind the scenes and bonus interview content! I care a lot about diversity and representation, and blog about these things in literature on Instagram:
readwithsamia
Podcast episodes drop every Tuesday on all podcast platforms at 6am, and also here on UA-cam by 1pm. You can also listen through this link here:
thediversebookshelf.buzzsprout.com
Lastly, if you enjoy my podcast and content, you can help support me. Join me on Patreon and become part of my community. Subscribers can get access to an exclusive bonus episode each month:
patreon.com/TheDiverseBookshelfPodcast
On this channel, I'll also be sharing book reviews and recommendations, as well as special Q&As, behind the scenes and bonus interview content! I care a lot about diversity and representation, and blog about these things in literature on Instagram:
readwithsamia
Podcast episodes drop every Tuesday on all podcast platforms at 6am, and also here on UA-cam by 1pm. You can also listen through this link here:
thediversebookshelf.buzzsprout.com
Lastly, if you enjoy my podcast and content, you can help support me. Join me on Patreon and become part of my community. Subscribers can get access to an exclusive bonus episode each month:
patreon.com/TheDiverseBookshelfPodcast
Ep84: Safia Elhillo on poetry, language, friendship & Sudan
This week, my guest on the show is the incredibly talented, Safia Elhillo. Safia’s work always leaves me mesmerised and craving for more. In her beautiful poetry, she explores themes of belonging, identity, home, friendship, love, pain, suffering, and so much more.
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022), and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor.
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others
Support the Show. (www.patreon.com/TheDiverseBookshelfPodcast)
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022), and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor.
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others
Support the Show. (www.patreon.com/TheDiverseBookshelfPodcast)
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Ep83: Taiba Bajar on rewiring the brain and unlocking autism
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On the show this week, I'm talking to researcher, brain health trainer and parent coach, Taiba Bajar about her book, Unlock Autism. Taiba has developed a unique seven-step action plan to helping unlock a child's potential within 12 months. Taiba's son is autistic, and upon receiving his diagnosis, she went on a mission to do everything in her power to help her son, manage his autism and help hi...
Ep82: Saima Mir on strong women, crime, vengeance & morality
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On this week’s episode, I’m speaking to Saima Mir, journalist and crime novelist, author of The Khan, and its sequel, Vengeance. In her books, Saima introduces us to Jia Khan. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father headed up the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule...
Ep82: Saima Mir on strong women, crime, vengeance & morality
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On this week’s episode, I’m speaking to Saima Mir, journalist and crime novelist, author of The Khan, and its sequel, Vengeance. In her books, Saima introduces us to Jia Khan. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father headed up the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule...
Ep81: Susan Muaddi Daraj on loss of home, belonging & Palestinian Christian communities
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On this week’s episode, I’m speaking to Susan Muaddi Darraj about her new novel, behind you is the sea, s set in Baltimore and follows the stories of a Palestinian American immigrant community. It is a tender, sweeping novel of a family grappling with so much - loss of identity, struggling to exist in a country that is so hostile towards them, strained family dynamics, love, difficult marriages...
Ep80: Vanessa Chan on the Japanese occupation of Malaysia, big families & characters with agency
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On this week’s episode, I’m talking to Vanessa Chan about her debut novel, an absolutely mesmerising story set across two timelines: 1930s and 1945 in Malaya - what Malaysia was called before independence. It is a story with four different perspectives, following the decision made by one woman to become a spy for Japan, and the dreadful consequences that befall her family and country, afterward...
Ep81: Susan Muaddi Darraj on loss of home, belonging & Palestinian Christian communities
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On this week’s episode, I’m speaking to Susan Muaddi Darraj about her new novel, behind you is the sea, s set in Baltimore and follows the stories of a Palestinian American immigrant community. It is a tender, sweeping novel of a family grappling with so much - loss of identity, struggling to exist in a country that is so hostile towards them, strained family dynamics, love, difficult marriages...
Ep80: Vanessa Chan on the Japanese occupation of Malaysia, big families & characters with agency
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On this week’s episode, I’m talking to Vanessa Chan about her debut novel, an absolutely mesmerising story set across two timelines: 1930s and 1945 in Malaya - what Malaysia was called before independence. It is a story with four different perspectives, following the decision made by one woman to become a spy for Japan, and the dreadful consequences that befall her family and country, afterward...
Ep79: Ishi Robinson on Jamaica, colonial legacies, race & class
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This week, I'm talking to Ishi Robinson, author of the delightful novel, Sweetness In the Skin. In this book, we meet the absolutely wonderful character of Pumpkin, a teenage girl trying to make her way in the world and be true to who she really is. The story is moving and wholesome, while tackling some darker issues including colourism, classism, abusive and absent parents, strained family rel...
Ep79: Ishi Robinson on Jamaica, colonial legacies, race & class
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This week, I'm talking to Ishi Robinson, author of the delightful novel, Sweetness In the Skin. In this book, we meet the absolutely wonderful character of Pumpkin, a teenage girl trying to make her way in the world and be true to who she really is. The story is moving and wholesome, while tackling some darker issues including colourism, classism, abusive and absent parents, strained family rel...
Ep78: Jassa Ahluwalia on mixed heritage & embracing who you are
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This week on the show, I’m talking to Jassa Ahluwalia about his book and memoir, Both Not Half. Both Not Half is a poignant exploration of Jassa’s own heritage - Punjabi and English - and other forms of identity including faith, class, gender and sexuality. Jassa reminds us that we are never fractions of an identity, but always whole, in a myriad of beautiful, overlapping, confusing but empower...
Ep78: Jassa Ahluwalia on mixed heritage & embracing who you are
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This week on the show, I’m talking to Jassa Ahluwalia about his book and memoir, Both Not Half. Both Not Half is a poignant exploration of Jassa’s own heritage - Punjabi and English - and other forms of identity including faith, class, gender and sexuality. Jassa reminds us that we are never fractions of an identity, but always whole, in a myriad of beautiful, overlapping, confusing but empower...
Ep77: Reem Gaafar on Sudan, motherhood & loss
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On the show this week, I'm speaking with Reem Gaafar, author of the novel, A Mouthful of Salt. This book is a really stunning, powerful story of a community in the north of Sudan, struck by calamity and loss. The book opens with a devastating scene of a boy gone missing and presumed to have drown, and the panic and grief in the wake of his search. Reem explores so much in this novel, including ...
Ep77: Reem Gaafar on Sudan, motherhood & loss
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On the show this week, I'm speaking with Reem Gaafar, author of the novel, A Mouthful of Salt. This book is a really stunning, powerful story of a community in the north of Sudan, struck by calamity and loss. The book opens with a devastating scene of a boy gone missing and presumed to have drown, and the panic and grief in the wake of his search. Reem explores so much in this novel, including ...
Ep76: Shaimaa Abulebda on life in Gaza
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This episode is a special bonus episode with scholar, writer and translator, Shaimaa Abulebda, from within Rafah, in Gaza. Shaymaa’s family home in east Khan Younis brings together her 8 married siblings, and for her nieces and nephews, it is their grandparents’ house. Shaimaa has lived through the second intifada, and all the aggressions on Gaza since 2008 until this curren ongoing genocide.Wi...
Ep75: Nigar Alam on Partition, childhood friendships and displacement
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Ep75: Nigar Alam on Partition, childhood friendships and displacement
Ep75: Nigar Alam on Partition, childhood friendships and displacement
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Ep75: Nigar Alam on Partition, childhood friendships and displacement
Ep74 - Ela Lee on privilege, children of immigrants & identity
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Ep74 - Ela Lee on privilege, children of immigrants & identity
Ep74: Ela Lee on privilege, children of immigrants & identity
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Ep74: Ela Lee on privilege, children of immigrants & identity
Ep73 - Dana Dajani on poetry, Palestine & storytelling
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Ep73 - Dana Dajani on poetry, Palestine & storytelling
Ep73: Dana Dajani on poetry, Palestine & storytelling
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Ep73: Dana Dajani on poetry, Palestine & storytelling
Ep72: Sofia Rehman on translation, dialogue & Aisha (ra)
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Ep72: Sofia Rehman on translation, dialogue & Aisha (ra)
Ep72: Sofia Rehman on translation, dialogue & Aisha (ra)
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Ep72: Sofia Rehman on translation, dialogue & Aisha (ra)
Ep71: Matthew Robinson on storytelling, film-making and the charity sector
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Ep71: Matthew Robinson on storytelling, film-making and the charity sector
Ep71: Matthew Robinson on storytelling, film-making and the charity sector
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Ep71: Matthew Robinson on storytelling, film-making and the charity sector
Ep70: Sarah Joseph on justice, slowing down & hope
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Ep70: Sarah Joseph on justice, slowing down & hope
Ep70: Sarah Joseph on justice, slowing down & hope
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Ep70: Sarah Joseph on justice, slowing down & hope
Ep69: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan on the power of du'a
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Ep69: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan on the power of du'a
Ep69: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan on the power of du'a
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Ep69: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan on the power of du'a
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