Wasafiri 93: Refuge

REFUGE

Issue 93: Spring 2018

Interviews with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Sophie Herxheimer

Essays on refuge, including those by Giles Duley, Margaret Toolan, Rod Edmond, Samantha Hudson, Sophie Mayer, Sian Norris, Suzi Feay, Meike Ziervogel, Lucy Popescu

Fiction by Julia Bell, Selma Dabbagh, Mireille Gansel

Poetry by Bidisha, Hassan Blasim, Olumide Popoola, Lisa Luxx, Saba Vasefi

Reviews: Olumide Popoola & Annie Holmes breach; Kim Schultz Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir; Rana Abdulfattah Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments;

and more...


 

Volume 33, Issue 1 March 2018

Issue 93

Guest edited by Bidisha

 

Bidisha                                                            Editorial

 

Bidisha                                                            An Interview with Sophie Herxheimer           [ART PIECE]

 

Giles Duley                                                     I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See

 

Bidisha                                                            An Interview with Karen McCarthy Woolf

 

Margaret Toolan                                             Seeking Asylum in France

 

Rod Edmond                                                  No Place to Go

 

Samantha Hudson                                           Detention and Destitution: The Asylum Journey in the UK

 

Sophie Mayer                                                  Denim

 

Sian Norris                                                      From 1938 to 2016: Two Refugee Crises Spanning History

 

Suzi Feay                                                        London: Insularity and Inclusion

 

Meike Ziervogel                                              One Story by Many Authors

 

Lucy Popescu                                                  A Country of Refuge

 

Selma Dabbagh                                               Focusing on Dispersal

 

Saba Vasefi                                                     Poem: Asylum

 

Hassan Blasim                                                Poem: A Refugee in the Paradise that is Europe

translated by Jonathan Wright

 

Lisa Luxx                                                        Poem: Al Waqt Al Aan

 

Bidisha                                                            Poem: Home

 

Olumide Popoola                                            Poem: Welcome to the (Calais) Jungle

 

Julia Bell                                                         Fiction: Trip Advisor

 

Selma Dabbagh                                               Fiction: Beirut-Paris-Beirut

 

Ros Schwartz                                                  Fiction: Mireille Gansel, Translation as Transhumance, translated and introduced by Ros Schwarz

 

 

REVIEWS

 

Sarah Graham                                                 Calais Writers             Voices from the ‘Jungle’: Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp

 

Shazea Quraishi                                              David Herd & Anna Pincus (eds.) Refugee Tales: Volume II

Anna Johnson (ed) Refugees and Peacekeepers – A Patrician Press Anthology

 

 

Mend Meriwany                                              Kim Schultz Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir

Rana Abdulfattah Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments

 

Annie Holmes                                                 Hala Alyan Salt Houses

 

Julia Bell                                                         Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, trans. Jethro Soutar

The Gurugu Pledge

 

Laline Paull                                                     Olumide Popoola & Annie Holmes breach

 

Alice Troy-Donovan                                       Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Speak from Here to There

 

Saieda Rouass                                                 Abdellatif Laâbi ed. André Naffis-Sahely Beyond the Barbed Wire

 

Nathalie Teitler                                               Nick Makoha Kingdom of Gravity

Jack Mapanje Greetings from Grandpa

 

Dzifa Benson                                                  Inua Ellams #Afterhours