Selima and Julia first met in the Ladies toilets on the top floor of City Hall, London. They were there for the National Poetry Competition presentations in 2002, when Selima was part of the judging panel and Julia had been [...]

For some reason, I’ve been thinking lately about an ornament in my childhood home. It looks like a flower trapped inside a star, with eight orange and blue petals intersecting the perimeter of an eight-point ceramic tile. My parents bought [...]

Threa Almontaser The Wild Fox of Yemen Picador £10.99 lisa luxx fetch your mother’s heart Out-Spoken £10 Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe Auguries of a Minor God Faber £10.99 Outside, the news is always breaking. For Middle Eastern witnesses, the [...]