A BookBlast 10x10 Tour LIVE event from Waterstones Birmingham (25.10.2018) Feat. Elizabeth Briggs, editor and marketing manager, Saqi Books (chair). Founded in 1983 in London, Saqi Books is an independent publishing house of quality general interest and academic books on North Africa and the Middle East WITH Birmingham-born, British-Pakistani poet, Nafeesa Hamid, whose work covers the taboo themes of sex, domestic violence and mental health, and has performed extensively around the UK AND spoken word poet and creative producer, Aliyah Holder, who writes about heritage and representation, and is currently working on a Random Acts Film for Channel 4. Topics: Poetry and art as tools for social change; British Muslim women are not one homogenous group, it's important to show those women not seen in the Media; being edited and getting published; the influence of Kate Tempest and Sabrina Mahfouz on up-and-coming poets; poetry as an expression of life; IQ tests are scientifically racist; education and racism in the southern states of the US; according to Aliyah Holder the term "spoken word artist" is racialised; the abuse of women and the #MeToo movement; healing as a collective; the white gaze and the canon of stereotypes; social media and putting your work out there; exploitation and being asked to work unpaid. Title focus: 'The Things I Would Tell You- edited by Sabrina Mahfouz – available from www.saqibooks.com Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Ben Fiagbe.

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