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Saba Karim Khan
Saba Karim Khan is an author, award-winning filmmaker and educator. She read Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and currently works at NYU Abu Dhabi. Khan’s debut novel, Skyfall, was published by Bloomsbury, and she is a contributor to the anthology Ways of Being: Creative Non-fiction by Pakistani Women. Her latest book, Home #itscomplicated, explores people’s messy yet meaningful relationship with “home”, focusing on Pakistan.
She is a columnist for Khaleej Times, and her writing, interviews and talks have appeared in The Guardian, BBC, The Independent, Gulf News, The National, Wasafiri, HuffPost, Verso, LUMS, DAWN, The Friday Times and Express Tribune, as well as at the Emirates Literature Festival, Lahore Literary Festival and NYUAD Institute.
Khan’s documentary film Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home, produced by the Doha Film Institute, was selected for and won awards at film festivals in New York, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, the USA, Sweden and India. Her latest film, W.R.A.P., follows three underground hip-hop artists in Karachi and has received awards and official selections in Sweden, Germany, the UK and India.
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Writing Home
Tarek El-Ariss, Marjori Lotfi, and Shahla Ujayli explore writing from and about Lebanon, Iran, and Syria — stories of home, exile, and defiance that show how words can resist, remember, and rebuild.
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