Wasafiri 93: Refuge

This special issue – guest-edited by Bidisha – features interviews with Karen McCarthy Woolf and Sophie Herxheimer, essays on refuge from Giles Duley and Lucy Popescu, fiction from Selma Dabbagh, poetry from Hassan Blasim and Lisa Luxx, and so much more!


 

Editorial

Bidisha 

Articles

I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See
Giles Duley

Seeking Asylum in France
Margaret Toolan

No Place to Go
Rod Edmond

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

Denim
So Mayer

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

London: Insularity and Inclusion
Suzi Feay

One Story by Many Authors
Meike Ziervogel

A Country to Call Home
Lucy Popescu

Focusing on Dispersal
Selma Dabbagh

Interviews

Poems of Movement and Migration: An Interview with Karen McCarthy Woolf
Bidisha

Interview with Artist Sophie Herxheimer
Bidisha 

Poetry

Asylum
Saba Vasefi

A Refugee in the Paradise that is Europe
Hassan Blasim, trans. by Jonathan Wright

Al Waqt Al Aan
Lisa Luxx

Home
Bidisha

Welcome to the (Calais) Jungle
Olumide Popoola

Fiction

TripAdvisor
Julia Bell

Beirut-Paris-Beirut
Selma Dabbagh

Excerpt from the memoir, Translation as Transhumance, by Mireille Gansel
Ros Schwartz

Reviews 

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

Refugee Tales: Volume II - David Herd & Anna Pincus (eds.)
Refugees and Peacekeepers – A Patrician Press Anthology - Anna Johnson (ed) 
Shazea Quraishi                                   

Three Days in Damascus: A Memoir - Kim Schultz
Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments - Rana Abdulfattah
Mend Meriwany  
 
Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
Annie Holmes                                     

The Gurugu Pledge - Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, trans. Jethro Soutar
Julia Bell                                      

breach - Olumide Popoola & Annie Holmes
Laline Paull

Speak from Here to There: The Harlem Renaissance - Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella
Alice Troy-Donovan

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

Kingdom of Gravity - Nick Makoha
Greetings from Grandpa - Jack Mapanje
Nathalie Teitler

#Afterhours - Inua Ellams
Dzifa Benson