Kamila Shamsie
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Kamila Shamsie
@kshams.bsky.social
Writer
‘I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.’ @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social writes, brilliantly, in Guernica about chasing a forgotten musical legend from Karachi. I’m proud to have edited it.

www.guernicamag.com/iggy/
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I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.
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February 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Dr. Laila Soueif is on day 120 of hunger strike to demand the release of
her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is being unlawfully detained. Her health is in critical danger.

Today, I’m taking part in the 80-day relay hunger strike in solidarity with her.

#FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll
January 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Kamila Shamsie
Borders were created to exclude. The immigration system is hostile and racist by design. 👏🏽

Don’t waste your time deciding which migrants are “deserving” or not—a recognition of human dignity is the bare minimum we should all be able to expect.

#EndtheHostileEnvironment

🎤 @kshams.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Kamila Shamsie
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Blue sky, Antarctica.
August 19, 2023 at 9:03 PM