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June 2008EXILED LIT
CAFE:
WRITERS FROM BANGLADESH, IRAN AND SOUTH AFRICA
Mir Mahfuz Ali was born in Dhaka,
Bangladesh and studied at Essex University. He dances, acts,
has worked as a male model and a tandoori chef. He has given
readings and performances at the Royal Opera House and other
theatres in Britain and beyond. His poems have appeared in
London Magazine, Poetry London, Ambit and Exiled Ink. He is
currently preparing his first collection for publication. He
has been working closely with his mentor, Moniza Alvi and
was short-listed for the New Writing Ventures Awards 2007.
Shereen Pandit was a South African lawyer and political
activist before coming into exile in the UK in 1987 where
she completed a PhD in Law. Her short stories have appeared
in many anthologies and magazines and have won several
prizes including the Booktrust London Award. Her articles
and reviews have appeared in several magazines.
Shirin Razavian was born in Tehran where she studied Persian
and English Literature. Because of the censorship and lack
of freedom of expression, she fled her country and started
building a new life in London. She has published three
Persian poetry books in London in 1995, 1999 and 2001. Her
Farsi-English book Which Shade of Blue? is being published
in the USA shortly. Shirin has had several radio and TV
interviews with the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Azadi,
Radio Israel and other Persian exiled media.
Their chap books, published 2008 by Exiled Writers Ink, will
be available:
A Golden Bowl by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Flamingoes at Sunset by
Shereen Pandit and Free Fall by Shirin Razavian.
Hosted by Nathalie Teitler
www.exiledwriters.co.uk
29 April 2008
12 exciting, emerging exiled
writers and the launch of their chap books
Exiled Writers Ink Mentoring and Translation Scheme (Year 1)
participants
Shereen Pandit ( South Africa), Abol Froushan ( Iran), Ali
Abdolrezaei ( Iran),
Sofia Buchuck ( Peru),
Vesna Ruzicka-Sehovic ( Sarajevo), Hasan Bamyani (
Afghanistan), Hassan Bahri (Syria),
Samira Al Mana ( Iraq), Mir Mahfuz Ali ( Bangladesh), Shirin
Razavian ( Iran),
Bashir Al Gamar ( Sudan), Mogib Hassan ( Yemen)
The evening will take place at:
Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre
8
March 2008
Organisation:
Association des Chercheurs Iraniens -
ACI
Venue:
Frontline Club – 13 Norfolk Place, London
Subject: International Women’s
day
Participants:
Shirin Razavian - exiled
poet and campaigner for free press in Iran
Tahirih Danesh -
Human Rights Researcher
/ Documenter bullet
Roya Kashefi - Human Rights
Committee - ACI
Elizabeth Sidney, OBE
National Alliance of Women’s
Organisations – NAWO
United Nations Development Fund for
Women – UNIFEM UK
Women’s Federation for World Peace
– WFWP (General Consultative Status of ECOSOC and DPI
Associates with the United Nations)
