Hajar Press
@hajarpress.bsky.social
independent political publishing house by and for people of colour
It’s been a beautiful weekend being up in Edinburgh for the Radical Book Fair and a special creative writing workshop around The Hajar Book of Rage 🥰
Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️🔥
Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️🔥
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It’s been a beautiful weekend being up in Edinburgh for the Radical Book Fair and a special creative writing workshop around The Hajar Book of Rage 🥰
Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️🔥
Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️🔥
Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025.
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
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IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha, part of the White Kite Collective - Messages from Gaza is at @stratfordeast.com on 8th November
'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'
'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha
We sat down for an exclusive interview with Zena Agha - a Palestinian-Iraqi writer and poet and the author of Objects from April and May (2022). She is a member of the White Kite Collective.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha, part of the White Kite Collective - Messages from Gaza is at @stratfordeast.com on 8th November
'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'
'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'
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What a beautiful book club session last week at Housmans Radical Booksellers. Thank you to everyone who came, and thank you Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, for sharing this lovely work and your lovely self with us 💖
May 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What a beautiful book club session last week at Housmans Radical Booksellers. Thank you to everyone who came, and thank you Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, for sharing this lovely work and your lovely self with us 💖
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This week’s spotlight is on Hajar Press, an inspiring indie publisher founded by and for people of colour.
They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚
Read more in our latest issue!
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They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚
Read more in our latest issue!
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Spotlighting Hajar Press
At the heart of this month’s BIPOC spotlight is Hajar Press – an independent, political publisher created by and for people of colour.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This week’s spotlight is on Hajar Press, an inspiring indie publisher founded by and for people of colour.
They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚
Read more in our latest issue!
www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...
They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚
Read more in our latest issue!
www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...
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Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK!
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK!
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
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Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra.
Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!
Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK!
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls.
📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚
October 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra.
Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!
Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!
Following two queer Afghans — Delbar and Mansur — whose paths converge in Istanbul, Bobuq Sayed’s piercing debut, NO GOD BUT US, is a story of boundaries crossed, the violence of borders and heteronormativity, and the intricacies of love and power in family, friendship and romance.
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Following two queer Afghans — Delbar and Mansur — whose paths converge in Istanbul, Bobuq Sayed’s piercing debut, NO GOD BUT US, is a story of boundaries crossed, the violence of borders and heteronormativity, and the intricacies of love and power in family, friendship and romance.
What do we carry from one year to the next?
In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.
In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What do we carry from one year to the next?
In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.
In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.
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I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social
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'Rage is often a result of perceived impotence to be able to affect change, but this book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms.'
The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
The Hajar Book of Rage, ed. Farhaana Arefin: Book Review – The Skinny
The first in Hajar Press' new elements anthology series, this book takes as its subject the power and politics of fiery rage.
www.theskinny.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
'Rage is often a result of perceived impotence to be able to affect change, but this book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms.'
The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
🔥 It’s heeeere! The Hajar Book of Rage is out today! Igniting the first spark in the ‘elements’ anthology series, this is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance 🔥
Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🔥 It’s heeeere! The Hajar Book of Rage is out today! Igniting the first spark in the ‘elements’ anthology series, this is a searing tribute to the fires of anger that fuel our resistance 🔥
Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
Get your copy now ☄️☄️☄️
www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...
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“The women were able to resist the tyranny of the mind because they were able to use their own words for what it meant to be free, what it meant to survive, what it meant to escape.”
Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…
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September 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“The women were able to resist the tyranny of the mind because they were able to use their own words for what it meant to be free, what it meant to survive, what it meant to escape.”
Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
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“The women, instead of being seen, are weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people.”
A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…
buff.ly
September 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“The women, instead of being seen, are weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people.”
A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with #British-#Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
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#Bangladesh #history #LiberationWar “There were hundreds of thousands of women who had been raped. But then I couldn’t find them anywhere, not in history books or testimonies.”
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#Bangladesh #history #LiberationWar “There were hundreds of thousands of women who had been raped. But then I couldn’t find them anywhere, not in history books or testimonies.”
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
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“This story of 1971 can be applied to many other histories, just as the histories of women who are raped during war in other countries can inform this history.”
A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…
buff.ly
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“This story of 1971 can be applied to many other histories, just as the histories of women who are raped during war in other countries can inform this history.”
A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’:
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“What I wanted to do with ‘The First Jasmines’ is to enter it into a conversation where the women are not just victims, but that they should also be given a front row seat into what it means to define the public memory of the war.”
Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:
Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:
Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32
A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…
buff.ly
September 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“What I wanted to do with ‘The First Jasmines’ is to enter it into a conversation where the women are not just victims, but that they should also be given a front row seat into what it means to define the public memory of the war.”
Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:
Saima Begum on the #biragona women of #Bangladesh:
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Not often I get a chance to grab a physical copy of The Skinny but nice to see two titles I've typset recently (La Lucha and The Hajar Book of Rage) getting their deserved props. Unsurprisingly, it's a time for rage-fuelled non-ficition again (not that it ever stopped)
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Not often I get a chance to grab a physical copy of The Skinny but nice to see two titles I've typset recently (La Lucha and The Hajar Book of Rage) getting their deserved props. Unsurprisingly, it's a time for rage-fuelled non-ficition again (not that it ever stopped)
‘This book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms … a place where historical injustice and present-day horrors sit side by side, and where the personal meets the universal.’
Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
The Hajar Book of Rage, ed. Farhaana Arefin: Book Review – The Skinny
The first in Hajar Press' new elements anthology series, this book takes as its subject the power and politics of fiery rage.
theskinny.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
‘This book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms … a place where historical injustice and present-day horrors sit side by side, and where the personal meets the universal.’
Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Grateful to @theskinnymag.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of The Hajar Book of Rage: theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Autumn is looking eventful! 🍁
Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️🔥
hajarpress.com/events
Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️🔥
hajarpress.com/events
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Autumn is looking eventful! 🍁
Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️🔥
hajarpress.com/events
Join us for a workshop and a cabaret to launch The Hajar Book of Rage; a conversation about political literature in the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair; and another celebration of The First Jasmines at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social ❤️🔥
hajarpress.com/events
Saima Begum reading from her debut novel, The First Jasmines. Set in 1971, it tells the stories of the women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Saima Begum reading from her debut novel, The First Jasmines. Set in 1971, it tells the stories of the women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
Full video from the book launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
📣 We’re hiring a Community Coordinator!
If you have
⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission
⭐️ experience in community engagement
⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills
⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team
Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs
Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk
£17.10/hr
If you have
⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission
⭐️ experience in community engagement
⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills
⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team
Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs
Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk
£17.10/hr
October 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
📣 We’re hiring a Community Coordinator!
If you have
⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission
⭐️ experience in community engagement
⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills
⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team
Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs
Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk
£17.10/hr
If you have
⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission
⭐️ experience in community engagement
⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills
⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team
Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs
Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk
£17.10/hr
The launch event at Root25 for Saima Begum's new novel, The First Jasmines, was beautiful. Thank you so much to everyone who came through and joined in the conversation with us 💚
If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
'The First Jasmines' with Saima Begum and Hajar Press
YouTube video by Hajar Press
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August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The launch event at Root25 for Saima Begum's new novel, The First Jasmines, was beautiful. Thank you so much to everyone who came through and joined in the conversation with us 💚
If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
If you missed it, you can now catch up on YouTube 💫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plwz...
🎉 Happy publication day to Saima Begum! 👏🏾
THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War.
Available now.
www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...
THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War.
Available now.
www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...
July 31, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🎉 Happy publication day to Saima Begum! 👏🏾
THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War.
Available now.
www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...
THE FIRST JASMINES reveals the lives and experiences of the hundreds of thousands of women captured and abused by the Pakistan Army during the 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War.
Available now.
www.hajarpress.com/books/the-fi...
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hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!
🎺 We’re now distributed in the US by the fantastic small press distributor @asterismbooks.bsky.social!
Whether you’re a reader or a bookseller, if you’re in North America you can now buy our books through Asterism more quickly and affordably than ever before 🙌🏾
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Whether you’re a reader or a bookseller, if you’re in North America you can now buy our books through Asterism more quickly and affordably than ever before 🙌🏾
asterismbooks.com/publisher/ha...
July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
hajar press is consistently publishing some of the most beautiful radical & visionary writing out there !!!! cannot recommend We, the Heartbroken and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise enough!!!!