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Why the Sudanese statistician swapped percentiles for prose after a journey of 5,000 miles
Leila Aboulela’s literature strikes a chord with Muslim Readers
Writing as spiritual offering – an interview in World Literature Today
Leila takes readers on a tour of the Granite City
From A Wrinkle in Time to An Orchestra of Minorities – Leila chooses 5 Books with a Mystical Dimension.
Review of Bird Summons in the Washington Post
In this podcast, Leila visits the London locations of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.
Leila discusses writing and her books at a special event in Cambridge Muslim College
Interview with Donna Kozberg in Publishers Weekly
Interview with Arifa Akbar in The Independent
Anita Sethi reviews Lyrics Alley in The Telegraph
From Outcasts to Secret Agents: Leila recommends top Sudanese books
In the Studio- BBC World Service. Writing the Stories of Scotland and Sudan.
Academic Article on The Kindness of Enemies: Fiction in Contest with History? Faith, Resilience and the War on Terror by Yousef Awad
Free to Pray. An essay commissioned by the Edinburgh Book Festival for The Freedom Papers
Short Film. Leila visits her old school in Khartoum
The New York Times Saturday Profile
Academic Article on The Translator. Translating Silence, Transmitting Faith by Alaa Alghamdi
Lyrics Alley on the Guardian’s choice of the Best Books On Sudan
Minaret on Buzzfeed’s list of Novels on Muslim Life that Shouldn’t Be Missed
An interview with Anita Sethi in The Observer
Mike Philips reviews Minaret in The Guardian
Review and discussion of Minaret in Muslima Media Watch
Kaima L. Glover reviews The Translator for The New York Times
The Caine Prize for African Writing www.caineprize.com
Anita Sethi reviews Lyrics Alley in The Telegraph
BBC World Book Club speaks to Leila Aboulela about her novel Minaret.
Read the entry at the British Council Literature website
‘Fiction as Translation’ – an interdisciplinary lecture presented at the Oriental Hall, AUC, Tahrir Square
On Aspen Public Radio First Draft- a dialogue on writing