Sarra Ahmed

The Adventure of a Lifetime: when I unwittingly became Chris Martin

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My talented husband ❤️❤️❤️

A bit more about me and the book…

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Beware the Muse... On writing my debut novel, Sanctuary

'Sanctuary was conceived in the arrivals queue at Stansted airport. It was my first time and the whole thing was over in a matter of seconds.'

Little piece I wrote on the highs and lows of writing my debut novel, #Sanctuary.

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‘I would finish a scene, only to witness it play out in real life a short while later’ In Refugee Week, Lucy Popescu talks to two debut authors about the UK asylum system

Two books for #RefugeeWeek: Determination by
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Forty Years of Avoidable Deaths at Sea My interview with Rafael Quirós - June 2025, Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz

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‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation The Irish rap trio have recently faced censure and a court case, but have also had support for their pro-Palestine stance. Ahead of a Glastonbury appearance deemed ‘inappropriate’ by Keir Starmer, they argue the backlash against them is a deliberate distraction

‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

A group of Israeli soldiers held a birthday party in a Palestinian home in the town of Jaba, in the occupied West Bank, after raiding and forcibly evicting the residents.

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

By forcibly confining the Palestinians of Gaza within impassable bounds, while at the same time slaughtering and starving them within this confined space, the State of Israel has made a mockery of the slogan, “Never Again.”

Treat Israel as a pariah state Jean-Pierre Filiu’s words must be read closely — how, with surgical precision and without ever giving in to rhetorical excess, as he lays bare what Israel is doing in Gaza.His book, “Un Historien à...

This war is the dark stain of our era, the final nail in the coffin of the liberal international order, and a testing ground for our collective abandonment of the utopia of a different world. This is the blind spot that, since left unaddressed, has consumed everything else
#gaza #israel #palestine

We are mobilizing to Cairo. Here's why. Members of the Progressive International prepare for the March to Gaza.

The Progressive International is standing, along with DiEM25, behind the March to Gaza.
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Videos show Israeli air attacks levelling residential buildings in Gaza, reducing them to rubble amid Israel's ongoing war on the besieged enclave.

Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources Exclusive: More schools identified as targets after controls on IDF action against Hamas operatives at civilian sites loosened A series of recent deadly airstrikes on school buildings sheltering displaced people in Gaza were part of a deliberate Israeli military bombing strategy, with further schools identified as targets, the Guardian has learned. At least six school buildings have been struck, reportedly killing more than 120 people, in recent months as part of a targeting effort by the Israeli military. Continue reading...

Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources

Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.

50,000 children in Gaza have been killed or severely wounded. Thats one in 20 children

Starvation now.

Bono and Thom Yorke in an open top car, driving through Gaza to give their opinions

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.

Is the war in Gaza different now or are you just recognizing it for what it's been all along?

La Nobel Annie Ernaux y otros 700 escritores denuncian el genocidio de Israel en Gaza: "Es injustificable" www.eldiario.es/cultura/700-...

Israel's land grab campaign continues.

Gaza, West Bank, and Syria.

#Gaza por Carlos Latuff

Hundreds of writers call for Gaza ceasefire and aid More than 300 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed a letter calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire in Gaza.

More than 300 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed a letter calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Why Did Burning Girls Matter in Vietnam but Not in Gaza? The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War – but a viral video of a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire.

“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?”

The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire.

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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

‘Not aid, but humiliation’: A desperate search for food in Gaza Palestinians in Gaza recount journeys to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites, as starvation looms.

Palestinians in Gaza recount journeys to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites, as starvation looms.