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New titles for Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
A pioneering nineteenth-century novel from Brazil, and historical memoirs of South Sudan and Tahiti… Read More
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Hisashi Urashima’s Northern Lights
In an interview in the Hokkaido newspaper Kashima, Hisashi Urashima, principal of the… Read More
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Go to school? Or join a militia?
In a review in Sudan Studies, Joanna Oyediran discusses Liz Hodgkin’s “insightful and entertaining”Letters from Isohe… Read More
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Critical acclaim for Hamid Dirar
“This was how I came into the world, the son both of a living man, and of a ghost…” Read More
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The Amulet: “A rare and moving memoir”
Joanna Oyediran reviews The Amulet for Sudan Studies. Read More
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Hamid Dirar 1940-2023
Hamid Dirar, Sudanese microbiologist, born 1940 in Wadi el Khireissab, Sudan, died 23 April 2023 in Khartoum. Read More
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Barefoot in the forests of Sudan
Hamid Dirar’s The Amulet is reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement of 18 November 2023 by Robert Irwin… Read More
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“Send us to school!”
The summer 2022 issue of the Brixton Review includes a review by Will Eaves… Read More
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Neuromantics discuss Letters from Isohe
Neuromantics is a long-running podcast, hosted by the neuroscientist Sophie Scott and the writer and composer Will Eaves… Read More
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How do you study when there’s nothing to eat?
At a launch event in March at SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University) for Elizabeth Hodgkin’s… Read More
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