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We are proud to be hosting an evening of readings, talks and community action to raise awareness and funds for the Gaza Champions Initiative.
Gaza Champions are a collective of allies from around the world who are connecting with families in Gaza as champions for their fundraising campaigns to escape the ongoing genocide. The initiative offers direct support for families and individuals across Gaza and aims to cultivate an international community of allies.
We will be joined by authors Sabrin Hasbun, Noreen Masud and Nikesh Shukla.
Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders. Wait for Her, Sabrin’s family memoir about displacement told through the love shared between her Italian mother and Palestinian father, has recently been awarded the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize.
Noreen Masud is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. Her academic monograph, Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language won the MSA First Book Award 2023 and the University English Prize in 2024. Her memoir-travelogue, A Flat Place, was shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction; The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year; the Jhalak Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024.
Nikesh Shukla is the editor of bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant, which won the Reader’s Choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards, and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. He is the author of a number of novels for adults, young adults and children including Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize), Meatspace, The One Who Wrote Destiny, Run Riot, The Boxer, Stand Up and The Council of Good Friends as well as the memoir Brown Baby, the writing guide Your Story Matters, a 5 part Spider-Man India comic series for Marvel and co-editor of The Good Immigrant USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Roehampton University and the University of Bath.
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All proceeds will go directly to families and individuals in Gaza. Please join us in solidarity.
