And including the response from Mercy Fekadu. I think her 2nd and 3rd points were the main ones on my mind as I was reading the piece.
dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
This is an excellent, thought-provoking piece by @wlacher.bsky.social and @yguichaoua.bsky.social discussing the subject (and industry) around conflict studies. Its a piece I'll be chewing on for the next couple of days, and something I've been feeling as well
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
SILVERBROOK LOVEEEEE 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Omg thanks so much for letting me know!! I’m so glad you enjoyed 🥹🥹🥹🥹
ramadan mubarak haboobs x
RARE chance to pre-order AT SEA at a discount!! Waterstones are running a promo until Friday - use the code FEB26 at the checkout and get a whole 25% OFF!!
Run, don't walk to www.waterstones.com/book/at-sea/... and get the book they're calling 'Required reading for the Petroleum Age'
Shout out as always to the brilliant team (from storyliners to script editors to all on the crew!) who bring this show to life. TV truly is a team effort... and I feel very grateful Alhamdulilah to be playing on this one :D
#DramaintheDales #Emmerdale
It never gets old!!!
My next episode of #Emmerdale - one of Britain's longest running and most beloved continuing dramas - is airing TONIGHT!
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For more on the book (or if you’d like me to visit YOUR school) check out silverbrook.uk
In the meantime, I’m reading my vocal cords and coming up with plans for the next adventure…
…and that’s a wrap on the SILVERBROOK Tour!!!
Twenty schools (!), almost 5000 students… what a time!!
HUGE thanks to my team at Hachette and all the incredible booksellers, teachers and librarians who made this happen! Even bigger thanks to all the young people for their attention and curiosity ☺️
thanks so much!!
thank you!!!!
It's 9+ for advanced readers and 11+ generally! There are some deeper themes on social issues which is why it's slightly older but the actual reading age is 9+
keep an eye out, but also do listen/share/rate/review! and let me know what you think!
I’ve been a reporter on this new podcast exploring the Muslim experience…‘with all its messiness’. The first two eps of the podcast are out now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
my episodes (on a professor teaching during the Sudanese war, and Islamic psychology in the age of AI) will be out soon!
HIT UP YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP OR LIBRARY TODAY!!! Ask for SILVERBROOK!! Then let me know what you (or a young reader in your life) thinks!!!! Can’t wait for you to enter this world…!
silverbrook.uk
I’ve been hitting these (school) STREETS, taking Silverbrook on tour. From Karachi to Kilburn, Chalk Farm to Chelmsford, I’m determined for all these young peeps to meet Yumna and the crew and get inspired inshallah - to stand up for themselves by believing in the power within.
SHE’S HEREEEEEEEEE!!!!
Today is the DAY, yall!! Say MASHALLAH…!
A @thebookseller.com Top Ten Picks for Jan, Yumna and the Golden Horse is the first in my new SILVERBROOK series, about a group of Muslim teens in a small English village which is not as sleepy as it looks.
A little Q&A on #Silverbrook - WHICH CAME OUT TODAYYYYY!!!
goodreadingmagazine.com.au/article/yass...
Thank you my friend!!
On a different note, A LOT of countries are going to start spending a lot more money on defence. Building weapons. How do we feel about that? I don’t know.
But also I wish KS in the UK had such vision. He is so stuck in the so called rules based order of the last century. CMON MAN!
Fuuuuuuuuuck
Values based realism. Principled and pragmatic. This is what Canada’s PM talked about as the future of geopolitical alliances. We are in such a moment - a reshaping of the world as we know it.
Anyone who believes in civilian self-determination should pay attention to Sudan, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied Not only because of the scale of the horror, but because the inaction of the international community tells despots around the globe that it is acceptable.
Has DUA LIPA read my book? I don’t know, but looks like her team certainly has! Thanks @Service95 for highlighting #AtSea as one of the releases to look forward to in 2026, what a treat to wake up to!! Alhamdulilah.
Pre-order at buythebook.online/at-sea today!! 🌊 🌊 🌊
17 SLEEPS LEFT UNTIL THE SECRETS OF SLEEPY #SILVERBROOK ARE REVEALED…
Yumna and the Golden Horse is the first in my new series, a magical fantasy adventure set in a (not-so-sleepy) English village. Think Famous Five meets Encanto, if they were Muslim. 👀
OUT 29 JAN!! PRE ORDER - geni.us/Silverbrook
Sudan’s war is not “nihilistic” chaos, nor is it a “civil conflict”, writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied This is a war against civilians, punishment for the people’s audacity in standing up to the military regime—and the international community is enabling it.
www.ft.com/content/836e...
I think it's absolutely wild to be turning property in E1 - super central in an area where rent is already hella high - INTO DATA CENTERS
