Faiza S Khan
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Freelance editor, mentor, consultant. Director, Silk Road Slippers Writing Masterclass in Marrakech.
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Love this picture of my warm, smiley father.
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I loved Murder, She Wrote in which a middle aged woman without a husband or children lived a really full, exciting life and kept being invited to things even though people dropped dead at every house party she attended. RIP wonderful Angela Lansbury.
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Ditto looking after ageing parents. The cult of individualism simply doesn't work.
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I'm South Asian, on any given day I'm knee-deep in family or family matters -- I do not need fathers' and mothers' days, thank you.
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A friend has best story: lots of ppl in lift at SOAS, on way to Edward Said talk, she says "I'm only going because he's gorgeous", at which point Said, standing with back to her turns around and says "thank you".
Who’s the most famous person you’ve been in a lift with?
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My brother Ali who's the actual smart person in the family along with being the only sane person, has a book out on Pakistani cricket within the wider social and political context of the country, religion, corruption, international relations et al
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Not sure this is personal news, but after six transformative years of working alongside some of the smartest and nicest people I know, I'm leaving Bloomsbury to freelance edit (at the risk of being immodest, I'm very, very good, so hit me up, publishers & agents) and to >
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I use an excellent Pakistani cook in London to stock up on pullao, shami kebabs,chapli kebabs, old school chicken shashlik, baingan ka bharta, qeema etc. He charges by the hour, is incredibly reasonable & v v good. He could do with more work, please beep me if it interests you.
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bell hooks on everything that puts me off girl boss feminism
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Will also edit two books - novels or memoirs - a year at no cost for unprivileged writers, for which I'll be looking towards Pakistan & Afghanistan and absolutely cannot wait to find brilliant people who want to tell their own stories rather than having saviours speak for them.
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Why would a woman lie about harassment in a country like Pakistan where the only reaction to harassment claims are mockery & death threats.
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My great-great grandmother, disappearing from Indian history as Muslim women rulers disrupt beloved stereotype of Oppressed Muslim Women
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I don't understand people looking for book recommendations during self-isolation, aren't your bookshelves full of books you avoid eye contact with because you bought them and fully intended to read them and haven't yet managed?
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Yet more proof that India's alleged respect for its soldiers & families utter bull unless they serve its purpose of hating neighbour
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It's like a bad joke but yesterday I ordered a necklace reading Sabr (Patience) and I paid extra for overnight delivery and well, it hasn't arrived.
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Muted reaction to Shehan's Booker win, partly because other popular books on shortlist, and partly because he's an outsider writing political satire set in Sri Lanka and I've never met people more parochial than those who inhabit the British publishing eco-system.
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If you'd like to talk about diversity in publishing, I'm fairly confident I'm the only publisher in London chewing supari at my desk.
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I hate being on camera so so much but I hate what passes for diversity in publishing more. So I made this excruciating video.
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Very excited to be publishing the best non-fiction to have come out of Pakistan in recent years, if not ever. We've progressed past era of books by men on foreign policy to this dazzling debut about homegrown modernity, social media, celebrity, aspiration, the politics of desire.
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It's hard to find anything coming out of India shocking when it's such all out normalised fascism but still, what absolute hell this is
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The finished copies of this book just arrived and I had to go away and read bits of it by myself and virtually have a little cry over how incredibly important it is and what it means to me to publish such a thing. Every page I randomly open upends so many mainstream "truths"
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Stack of besan ki roti headed for the freezer (that's chickpea flour for people who do not have the luxury of knowing South Asian food).
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Ha - that's my grandmother on the left in her fantastic shades and my father in the middle
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Jesus Christ no, not the "finally a PM who looks like me" people. Hope you're also looking forward to being deported by someone who looks like you.
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V proud to publish writers with ethics, go Kamila Shamsie!
Author Kamila Shamsie stripped of literary award over BDS support
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Did you know that you could enjoy reading without holding onto the misplaced, elitist, self-aggrandising belief that it's making you a better person?
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Ben Okri in the Guardian today being embarrassing in ways I don't really have the words to describe.
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You shall hear a great deal this year about Sanam Maher's hugely important work on the cost of freedom for women not born to privilege in conservative societies. Coming next month. V proud to publish.
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"I know a lot of journalists who are brilliant fiction writers, in fact sometimes their work is nothing but fiction."
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And I was pleasantly surprised by pieces in the Indian press. Well I was pleasantly surprised by any tributes of any kind - I never really thought about him in the world, he was just my father the classical music, cricket, and Hitchcock enthusiast
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In my basic Italian class, I'm on the verb vendere, to sell. The example provided is "ha venduto l'anima al diavolo". (He sold his soul to the devil). I still don't know how to book a hotel room in the language but I'm relieved I can now cast aspersions on people's character.
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness" - Tennessee Williams
#bornonthisday
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My wonderful father
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He is not jealous, he is not incapable of controlling his temper, this is not passion, this is coercive control sold to us as romance. I could not be more proud to publish
@JMoncktonSmith
's In Control. "A game-changer" as per
@caitlinmoran
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In case anyone felt like, you know, they still had their whole life ahead of them, I'm here to tell you that Lamhe is 30 years old this month.
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Oh look, it's only Wole Soyinka's first novel in almost 50 years.
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Pursue other projects, some relating to diversity in publishing and some relating to sitting on a terrace in Rome and drinking Aperol.
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Watching a very bad 90s action thriller with my parents, mother says "oh my god, poor boy" every time some random henchman gets shot.
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Alas all of us suffer the odd colonial complex ridden, idiotic friend who scoffs at the "singing & dancing" in India cinema as if incorporating one of the world's oldest, most sophisticated musical traditions into cinema wasn't genius, as if it ought to have been some other way.
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Desi lovefest for the late Karl Lagerfeld a tad embarrassing.
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Apparently this is a popular podcast in India. Certainly the interviewees are often interesting people but I don't understand why every episode is about 16 years long. I mean really, four and five hours per conversation, how is that a thing?
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The final copies have arrived and are looking spectacular as they should for the first great novel about the modern, dehumanised face of conflict in countries such as ours.
#redbirds
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I used to work in publishing but hearing and reading the word "relatable" in this trade and knowing it really only meant middle class white people me made me apoplectic with rage. So now I'm doing this.
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Oh so complicated
Gaza authorities say Israel has announced it will target two UN-run schools in airstrikes. The schools are currently being used as shelters.
Read more on our live blog:
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Again, the third world is responsible for a fraction of global carbon emissions and pays the highest price
Horrifying footage from S.
#Pakistan
today of entire building washed away by floods. Over 935 people killed, more than 33 million affected, worst natural disaster for country in decades:
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Oh look, it's Philip "non-white women who criticise white women are like the Taliban" Pullman's attempts at rehabilitation
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"A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces" - Wole Soyinka quote which reminded me of the people who insist they're subversive/feisty/sarcastic etc in their twitter bios.
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God, white feminism makes me want to throw things at people. "Here are some names embroidered into my Dior gown" 🙄🙄🙄
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Well this is not exactly right but in the spirit of a makeshift pandemic attempt, my Nowruz table
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I hear Mani Shankar Aiyar assaulted a defenceless labourer with cleavers and then set the mutilated but still live man on fire because he was committing Love Jihad.
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Oh look, the dime store Ayaan Hirsi Ali who thinks being progressive is marrying a white guy. Has always had it in for Malala anyway, first felt she was insufficiently progressiveon on account of covering her head 🙄. I suppose I'd be more cross if TN not entirely irrelevant.
Quite shocked to learn Malala married a Pakistani guy. She is only 24. I thought she went to Oxford university for study, she would fall in love with a handsome progressive English man at Oxford and then think of marrying not before the age of 30. But..
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How come everyone's suddenly a feminist and yet the discussion only seems to reflect the concerns of middle class white women? This is the single most important thing we need to be discussing if this movement is to have a future. I am so proud to be publishing this
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This is exactly right, I've rolled my eyes all week at some of the very virtuous responses to something that merely shows marriage just as it is. The show is not the problem, perhaps the institution is?
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About the last thing anyone needs right now is to hear Hum Dekhenge by Coke Studio. Firstly, it's a romanticised, liberal cliche which lost any bite it had decades ago, and secondly, there's no need to celebrate it being appropriated by Coke, the cornerstone of capitalism.
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About two hours ago I was full of hopes and dreams for the new year but now all I want is for my neighbours to stop playing nach punjaban on loudspeakers.
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That Bloomsbury is publishing the iconic Ash Sarkar made me very, very happy. I hope everyone but everyone reads Minority Rule.
"Ash Sarkar is the voice of a generation. In Minority Rule she has coined a phrase and a concept that will enter public consciousness and debate going forward",
@BloomsburyBooks
bags
@AyoCaesar
's debut in a major deal!
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Don't know why I'm being all coy about sharing some of the GREAT quotes Mohammed Hanif's forthcoming novel Red Birds has received so far, here's an updated cover with some of them on it. Gorgeous isn't it?
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Not so worried about girls being allowed an education when it isn't Afghanistan, are you?
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This meanwhile is what the Hotspot in
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#Prince
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#Pakistan
#tribute
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Diversity in publishing
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OH MY GOD I've left full-time employment and I'm a freelancer in this economy, what is wrong with me, well it's done now. I'm so tired, I can't even sit up properly to hyperventilate.
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Could everyone please stop doing whatever they're doing and admire my brilliant new cushion covers instead? From the gift shop of the sensational Doha Islamic Art museum. Being trapped in transit worked out after all!
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I don't at all believe in encouraging people to write books. I believe in discouraging them. It's really hard, you probably aren't going to be any good and there's a high chance you won't be very successful. If you still want to do it though, bring it.
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Are you kidding? You've HAD protests like this. Thanks for blaming the protesters for the lack of coverage though!
We need protests like these. From Dalits and Muslims and Adivasis. And the poor. And women.
World will notice. Protest is a craft.
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Sad this must be said but: I believe Meesha Shafi, completely, entirely, without question. Trolls who think women lie for attention/are put on earth to tempt men into sin aren't worth my while but you you know who makes me ill? People who are trying to undermine her more subtly.
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Do stop asking how the minar mob violence happened and look to your state for the answer - look at gender segregation, look at social norms in public life, look at the state of and the use of public spaces. This is all horrifying but none of it is a mystery.
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I do not have words for how sickened I am at the prospect of the cultural sites of one of the world's greatest and most ancient civilisations being threatened by that hateful little man who isn't from any sort of civilisation at all.
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Are you people really trying to pretend that the issue in India is whether or not women should wear hijab and not that India a rapidly, virtually genocidally Islamophobic country? Because that is the most pitiful liberal take I've seen in my life.
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My brother the anthropologist gave a talk about his book last night, about what cricket means to us as a nation and how it situates us in the world and it was moving and exciting and saddening and still so hopeful, like a great sports movie. I loved it.
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Well
@moni_butterfly
and I were due to launch our podcast today but forced to delay to January 15th. We'll be talking all things diversity, starting with gatekeepers and tokenism. Apparently I am less concerned about potentially losing my job than other saner publishers.
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Happy New Year, would-be writers! After two decades of editing and a year of teaching creative writing, not to mention a lifetime of "I Really Ought To Write/Complete Writing a Book", I think I've finally figured out what the problem is. I don't enjoy writing because I'm scared>
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Syrian ice cream last night. Every other pistachio ice cream I've eaten feels quite synthetic by comparison.
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Curious as to why ISIS perceived as more vile now than they were say last week. What did you think they were doing to locals?
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I think a lot of us wish we could be more shocked by how monstrous Pakistan's elite is capable of being.
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Woke up to find that my visiting brother had ironed all the laundry I'd left to dry yesterday because this is just what my brothers are like. Always amused when I tell people I have three brothers and all they see is oh South Asians, she must be at their beck and call.
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I've seen a good few posts about how Wonder Woman should have been nominated as no women directors represented at Globes. It was a bad film and nominating bad films to represent women does no favours to either art or women.
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Reading about awful experiences of women who seem to be doing all the housework/childrearing during lockdown, may I say again how utterly heavenly it is to be divorced and how this is perhaps an option not enough women availing themselves of.
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I don't talk about not wanting children for same reason I don't talk about being atheist, it suggests alternative is "normal" & i am aberration. I also don't talk about it because not having children such a privilege that I don't want to rub anyone's nose in just how nice it is.
Most books/essays I see about being childfree by choice are written by white cis women. We need to hear from more women of colour and women from different cultural and faith backgrounds as well as trans men and non-binary people who choose to be childfree by choice.
#MothersDay
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I read
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Qu from audience: Are you a disciplined author? Do you sit down and write a certain number of words a day?
Hanif: Well, I sit down.
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It happened when reading became the bourgeois pursuit of self-improvement instead of escapism, which is what literature actually is
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"How can we all come together when it's likely that some women are oppressing others?" Hood Feminism, in this year's 20 Best Feminist Books
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I'm sorry, WHAT?? Our podcast is in the Spectator and written by someone I've idolised for decades?? OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
"
@BhopalHouse
has the throaty laugh of a villainess, and
@moni_butterfly
has this no-nonsense tone that delivers withering insights at rapid speed," writes
@CrispinPodcast
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I'm on a deadline otherwise I'd go to Hyde Park and point at them and pull faces.
“No Imran, No remittances” PTI supporters protest against “regime change” at Hyde Park, they say “we won’t send any remittances until Imran Khan comes back.
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