Lena’s friend Bell doesn’t hold back behind the till at the bookshop 👀🤭

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A preview reading by Nida Sajid from 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 💫

𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 — a novelette on work and words, and how they distort the world — is out on 18 December! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

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...

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...

Leila Khaled was born on this day in 1944. She is a Palestinian insurrectionist who became famous for her involvement in plane hijackings in 1969–70.

On TWA Flight 840 due for Tel Aviv, she demanded the pilot fly over Haifa so she could see her birthplace, which her family fled during the Nakba.