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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 12h

Read a tender sonnet sequence by Palestinian American poet and @miznaarabart.bsky.social editor, @intifadabatata.bsky.social, now on our website. buff.ly/Hv2K4vM

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 20h

Today is the LAST day to read our interview with one of the world's greatest cartoonists & journalists, Joe Sacco, for free on Taylor & Francis! 📖 If you would prefer to read the interview in print, then you can grab yourself a copy of Wasafiri 127: Solidarities via our website. buff.ly/vmcnGns

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Sand Under the Foundation: A Conversation with Joe Sacco

In this incisive interview, Zena Agha speaks to one of the world's greatest cartoonists and journalists, Joe Sacco.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read an extract from the forthcoming feminist gothic novel, NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HELLS, by Intan Paramaditha. Translated by Stephen Epstein and @tiffanytsao.bsky.social, the book blends Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning. buff.ly/bzoppj9

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What will it feel like on the day Palestine is liberated? @monakareem.bsky.social imagines the ecstatic, utopian feeling of experiencing Palestine's liberation at last in this speculative story. With an illustration by Simone Khanyi Hadebe. Read: buff.ly/cIRw6E7

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reflecting on the insufficiencies of public and media attention on what has been termed 'the forgotten war' in her home country Sudan, our International Writer in Residence Safia Elhillo examines how a poet can make themselves genuinely useful to a cause. buff.ly/ZWBEbQr

Drawing by Francisco Goya of a man wielding an axe above a crowd of bodies on the floor. It is in black and white. Underneath is the title: A Poetics of the Unbearable by Safia Elhillo.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bonnie Greer, the prominent British American writer and cultural commentator. In remembrance, we have made an interview with Greer in our archives – conducted by Deirdre Osborne – free to access until the end of October. buff.ly/d8k3YDm

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To celebrate the official launch of our Solidarities issue today, we're offering a curated bundle of four issues that explore the idea of writing, literature, and art as forms of expressing and practising solidarity. Can storytelling play a role in liberation? buff.ly/YbeORbL

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Upon the release of his seventh collection, EXHIBIT G, Palestinian American poet and translator Fady Joudah speaks to Egyptian writer @elgendy95.bsky.social – both longlisted for the National Book Award this year – in this rich, extensive interview. Read: buff.ly/ILrVC9c

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In December 2025, British writer and artist Jay Bernard spoke to the British Caribbean experimental vocalist, composer, and movement artist Elaine Mitchener at the University of Cambridge, following a performance by Mitchener. Read a condensed version of their conversation: buff.ly/WG7Qyoi

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

London-based photographer Zeashan Ashraf has been documenting the solidarity movement for Palestine since October 2023. In this photo essay, Ashraf shares images he has taken of various protest sites, encampments, and acts of solidarity across the country. buff.ly/YcQvO75

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our International Writer in Residence, Safia Elhillo, has written the lead feature for our new Solidarities-themed issue. Titled 'Psychogeography', this gorgeous poem maps a family spread across borders, objects, memories, rituals, and scenes —emotionally entwined even when physically separated.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read an excerpt from @bureaucat.bsky.social's forthcoming book TRAUMATIZED: THE NEW POLITICS OF PUBLIC SUFFERING ( @versobooks.bsky.social, 2026), where she explores and challenges how trauma has become a weapon in the culture wars amid the collapse of liberal politics. buff.ly/VI7GqAe

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Extract — Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

Read an excerpt from Catherine Liu's forthcoming book Traumatized:

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Mario Espinoza Pino @elmoreno.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Se ha publicado en la revista @wasafirimag.bsky.social mi texto «Yuyay | Memory», un trabajo a caballo entre el ensayo y el life-writing sobre el racismo en España y la memoria mestiza. Espero que os resulte interesante. marioespinozapino.com/2026/07/12/y...

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Yuyay | Memory – Reflexiones & Sediciones

Se ha publicado en la revista @wasafirimag mi texto "Yuyay | Memory", un trabajo a caballo entre el ensayo y el life-writing que pretende contribuir a la mem…

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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Yuyay | Memory, by @elmoreno.bsky.social Translated from Spanish by @ameriqo.bsky.social for @wasafirimag.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In this essay, Shatha Abd El Latif examines four works of Palestinian life writing to argue for a 'uniquely Palesinian border theory' that specifically analyses the role of the checkpoint. Read here: buff.ly/4lXUJDC

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Read an exclusive extract from Laleh Khadivi's new novel FEMALE LIFE ON PLANET EARTH, @oneworldbooks.bsky.social. In this chapter, Heti is a silent companion to her cousin Mina's monologue about marriage, immigrant identity, and the comfort of large discount supermarkets. buff.ly/oE7lVnI

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Join us online this Tuesday, 15 September, for a celebration of our Spain issue! Contributors from the issue will participate in a wide-ranging discussion drawing out key themes, including national memory, nationality, and identity in the context of Spain. buff.ly/zciUFwC

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is a visceral quality to these three new poems by writer and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, Suji Kwock Kim. They can each be read separately but, together, the images build: dirt, loss, abandonment, poverty, parenting. buff.ly/uPlXgWd

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Weaving in conversations with Vietnamese author Nguyen Binh Phương and Kim Tràn of @majorbooks.bsky.social, @lauraapostrophe.bsky.social dives into Phương's novel NHỮNG ĐỨA TRẺ CHẾT GIÀ, which has recently been released in English as THE YOUNG DIE OLD, trans. by Khai Q Nguyễn. buff.ly/aq1S2DK

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Vietnamese Literature and Translating for the Anglosphere: Nguyen Binh Phương’s 'The Young Die Old'

Weaving in conversations with Vietnamese author Nguyen Binh Phương and publisher Kim Tràn of Major Books…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Join us as we celebrate the 17th edition of the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize as part of the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival! The event will open with a discussion on activism within the publishing industry, followed by readings and a prize-giving ceremony. buff.ly/eH860Gi

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Wasafiri: New Writing Prize 2026 | Southbank Centre

The UK's largest arts centre & the heart of London's cultural life.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Learn more about the framing of our Solidarities issue – edited by our Editor and Publishing Director, Sana Goyal – in its Editorial, titled 'Awaiting the Next Time'. Read the full text here: buff.ly/c3dHllm Wasafiri 127: Solidarities can be ordered via our website Wasafiri.org

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📢 Advertise with us! We're offering 20% off all paid advertisements booked by 10 Oct, applying to all print, website, and newsletter ads. Reach over 30,000 culturally engaged, creative, and critical readers from around the world. For more info, contact Cassie at wasafiripublicity@gmail.com

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How can we find and forge solidarity across different kinds of borders today? The book reviews in our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities, cover titles including diverse short fiction from Yemen, an anti-caste sci-fi collection, climate narratives, and more. buff.ly/gZM2EPA

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Red background. Light blue heading reads: Review Essay. Subheading reads: Together We Win by Isabelle Baafi. Underneath are three book covers in a row. Underneath that is white text: ‘... different but complementary approaches for critiquing solidarity, each of which should be carefully considered given the worldwide erosion of human rights and freedoms, and the (intentional) splintering of societies ...’

Red background. At the top are two book covers with their titles and authors written underneath. Beneath that is a quote from the review, which reads: ‘Like The Book of Sana’a, place writing is central to Floodlines ... Nizar marks his exile using boarding passes as bookmarks, a grandson of Iraq and also a child born of displacement, exile, and war.’

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this sincere, vulnerable poem, Wasafiri's current International Writer in Residence Safia Elhillo describes a visit to Medellin, Colombia. She notes the feel of a mattress and the sound of a familiar Arabic, amid reflections on the different languages she carries. buff.ly/qDAlzTJ

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ANTIOQUIA by Safia Elhillo

In this sincere, vulnerable poem, Wasafiri's current International Writer in Residence Safia Elhillo describes a visit to Medellin, Colombia.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this incisive interview, Zena Agha speaks to one of the world's greatest cartoonists and journalists, Joe Sacco. Speaking openly about his positionality and experiences as a frequent outsider to regions he covers, Sacco opens up about the brutality he has witnessed firsthand. buff.ly/9AfEFRe

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Sand Under the Foundation: A Conversation with Joe Sacco

In this incisive interview, Zena Agha speaks to one of the world's greatest cartoonists and journalists, Joe Sacco.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today is the final day to read an interview from our Spain issue between academic Dr Paula Teixeira Moláns and interdisciplinary artist Sol Mussa! Both from Galicia, 'a non-state nation known for its waves of migration', the pair speak about Mussa's artistic practice and more. buff.ly/oSs3d86

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Race, Fantasy, and Anti-Cinema: An Interview with Sol Mussa by Paula Teixeira Moláns

In this interview, academic Dr Paula Teixeira Moláns speaks to interdisciplinary artist Sol Mussa – both are from Galicia…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In three poems, Safa Khatib plays with imagery as she moves through different dark and troubling atmospheres. 'End of the Line' intersperses train announcements with an overheard conversation as breathless polyphony; 'Tresspass' and 'Al-Fatihah' broach gulfs of meaning. buff.ly/OZTv0A1

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can acts of solidarity – including protest and political organising – shape, influence, and alter our understanding and definition of literature itself? Join Wasafiri and @englishpen.bsky.social at @ibraaz.bsky.social on 23 September for the launch of our latest issue. buff.ly/NZ7gy8v

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This humourous, tongue-in-cheek fiction by Tamil writer Senan – translated by @kandasamy.bsky.social – follows Iyer, an upper-caste man who arrives in London and begins working at a chicken shop on Walthamstow High Street. buff.ly/n8bZWPD

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 NEW DATE: Join us for the rescheduled online launch of Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue on 15 September! Guest editors Marta Fernández Campa and María del Pilar Kaladeen will lead a wide-ranging event with various issue contributors. Get £5 tickets here: buff.ly/7OXknuE

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Juana Adcock
Salma Bechar
Layla Benitez-James
Marta Fernández Campa
Julia Conner
Noelia Cortés
María del Pilar Kaladeen
Sol Mussa
Lola Ortiz Vargas
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We're delighted to announce two partnered events with our good friends at Birmingham Literature Festival. Both panels will be chaired by Wasafiri's Editor and Publishing Director @sanagoyal.bsky.social, with the conversations centring place, landscape, and belonging. Tickets: buff.ly/EAmPxIv

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

My reimagining of the xiezhi myth is out today in @wasafirimag.bsky.social 's newest Solidarities issue! Available in.. Print: wasafiri.org/shop/issues/... Online (Taylor & Francis subscribers): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Wasafiri 127: Solidarities

Approaching ideas and forms of solidarity from different positionalities and perspectives, this urgent, topical issue aims to make us question, remember…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In this poem by Mujja Alloba – a Sudanese writer, doctor, and activist based in Canada, who was previously exiled in Türkiye – a woman in exile seeks to forge both an individual and collective sense of power and revolution. Translations by A.F, Erkan Gürsel, and Akış Ka. buff.ly/d5WKNAM

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Brazilian writer, translator, and literary scholar @nbpoless.bsky.social discusses how the composition of gender-dissident, racialised, and/or sick characters in fiction come together to imagine possible ends of the world by breaking normative expectations. buff.ly/3uWXmm5

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Lesbians ‘til the End of the World: The Importance of New Imaginations

Brazilian writer, translator, and literary scholar Natalia Borges Polesso discusses how the composition of gender-dissident, racialised…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our autumn 2026 issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities, is available to order now! Can storytelling play a role in liberation? Read through powerful interviews with major writers, poetry, life writing, and fiction on encampments, the university, protest, and more. wasafiri.org/shop/issues/...

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Wasafiri 127: Solidarities

What shapes do solidarities take in these strange times we are living in?

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Read two new poems by Eve Esfandiari-Denney that weave together the everyday, banal, spiritual, and philosophical, appearing in her debut collection, GIRLING (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 2026). Read here: buff.ly/mamqnLV

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Two Poems by Eve Esfandiari-Denney

Read two new poems by Eve Esfandiari-Denney – titled 'Parked ream of flesh near hijack' and 'I will eat your liver' – that weave together the everyday…

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Refuge is a moving book that asks us to consider what it means to find oneself again and again in the face of forced displacement, violence, death, and unimaginable loss.” Thanks @wasafirimag.bsky.social & @durreshahwar.bsky.social for this considered review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Refuge: Stories of War (and Love)

Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2026)

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On whose face do the shadows of a divided history fall? On the anniversary of the Partition and the eve of India's Independence Day, we're presenting this short story by Asghar Wajahat — translated from Hindi by Aditya Vikram Read now: buff.ly/SQyHXLp

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our autumn issue is now available to read online for our digital subscribers and those with access to Taylor & Francis! Wasafiri 127: Solidarities features work by some of our most foremost thinkers and creatives, including Jay Bernard, Saleem Haddad, Lola Olufemi, and Joe Sacco. buff.ly/rOMnVMz

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're delighted to announce a short course with our International Writer in Residence, Safia Elhillo. Across two workshops, Safia will explore the role that poetry plays when witnessing and recounting world events. The workshops will take place online across one week in September. buff.ly/S7r22ta

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Poetics as Witness: Workshop Series with Safia Elhillo

Join a short course with our International Writer in Residence, Safia Elhillo exploring the role that poetry plays as a witness.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We celebrate Women in Translation Month with Ramallah-based poet and playwright Dalia Taha's three poems that bear close witness to the occupation and genocide in Palestine. Originally written in Arabic, these poems are translated by Sara Elkamel. buff.ly/av5zm2G

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Introducing the cover of our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities ✊ Showing a 2025 painting by LA-based artist Massoud Hayoun, titled ‘General Strike’.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📍Nairobi We're thrilled to partner with @britishacademy.bsky.social and Book Bunk on this upcoming conversation on the Kenyan literary ecosystem. Billy Kahora will be speaking to Wendy Njoroge, Dennis Mugaa, Angela Wachuka, and Tom Odhiambo. Free tickets: buff.ly/3sOk8tZ

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Introducing the cover of our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities ✊ Showing a 2025 painting by LA-based artist Massoud Hayoun, titled ‘General Strike’.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Writing Our Legacy's Covert Talent Development Programme offers a brilliant opportunity for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC writers living in Ghana or who are of Ghanaian descent living in the UK to develop their writing through 4 online writing workshops. More info: buff.ly/RlgWDDX

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Covert Talent Development Programme 2026 - Ghana Issue - WRITING OUR LEGACY

An opportunity for 16 Black, Asian and ethnically diverse/BPOC writers living in Ghana or who are of Ghanaian descent living in the UK.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New on our website: Read an exclusive extract from SHORELINES: MEMORY, MIGRATION AND THE SELVES WE BECOME (@canongate.co.uk), the Nan Shepherd prize-winning debut nonfiction book by @alycia.bsky.social. buff.ly/mkaeKCw

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This extract from our British Latinx issue – titled 'Journal in Babylon' (Diario en Babilonia) – is from the unpublished diary of Afro-Cuban poet, novelist, journalist, and broadcaster, Pedro Pérez-Sarduy. It is translated by our Translator in Residence, @juanapoetry.bsky.social. buff.ly/QNBOlm0

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