Talks/Articles/Plays/Other

• TEDxCoventGardenWomen 2017:
  I’m bored of talking about Muslim Women.
  
  

• LSE Center for Women, Peace & Security 2020:
  A Vision of “Feminist Peace”.
  
  

• Islam Channel 2022:
  On Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia.
  
  

• BBC Ideas 2019:
  We need to stop oversimplifying violence.
  
  

• Unboxing Islamophobia Series 2019:
  The term; The dehumanisation; The consequences
  
  

• Strive UK 2021:
  Gendered Islamophobia panel talk

Guardian:

• 2022 - Look at minister’s plans to secretly make Britons stateless and what do you see: Islamophobia.
  
  

• 2021 - It’s not just cricket. Racism against Yorkshire’s South Asian Muslims has a long history.
  
  

• 2020 - Under Boris Johnson, Islamophobia will reach a sinister new level.
  

British Film Institute:

• 2022 - Muslim on her own terms: the subversiveness of After Love.

Al-Jazeera:

• 2018 - The Story of British Pakistani men - told by a native informant (A critique of Lost Boys?)

Independent:

• 2020 - Five years on, it’s time to push back against the damage caused by the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act.
  
  

• 2017 - Let me take a wild guess as to why Muslims are over-represented in prison.
  
  

• 2016 - Dear white people of France: being forced to undress wasn’t exactly the liberation I was longing for.

• Stuart Hall Foundation 2021:
  Can the museum be decolonised? with Mohammed Ali and Adhaf Soueif.
  
  

• Preventing Prevent Cambridge 2021:
  Surveillance, Integration & Assimilation
  
  

• SOAS: Creativity in Confronting Racism 2021:
  Lowkey, Faisal Hussein and Suhaiymah.
  
  

• Artists Make Change 2020:
  In conversation with Demi Nandhra
  
  

• Mum’s House Philosophy 2020:
  Otis Mensah, Awate and Suhaiymah
  
  

• The Lit Collective 2020:
  Imagination and Futurity with Dr Maryam Jameela.
  
  

• Islamic Human Rights Commission 2019:
  Postcolonial Banter Author Evening

• Guardian Today in Focus - 2021:
  Islamophobia in the UK since 9/11
  
  

• BBC Radio 4 Documentary - 2020:
  Poets in the Pulpit - presented by Suhaiymah
  
  

• TRT World, Focal Point - 2019:
  Muslims in Britain - Unheard Voices
  
  

• Spoken Word Documentary - 2016:
  Meet the women who speak without interruptions

• Whose Eyes Are These Anyway? 2019
  (Commissioned by The Albany, ACE funded).
  
  

• End of Diaspora 2019
  (Commissioned by Free Word Centre).
  

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• A Coin in Somebody Else’s Pocket 2018
  (Commissioned by Theatre Uncut).

Currently under commission to Kiln Theatre and Freedom Studios and Writer in Residence at Leeds Playhouse.

• 2020 The Royal Court:
  Living Newspaper Edition 1.
  
  

• 2019 The Bunker:
  My White Best Friend (and other letters left unsaid).
  
  

• 2019 Freedom Studios:
  The Tigers Come at Night.
  
  

• 2019 The Albany:
  Whose eyes are these anyway?
  
  

• 2018 Theatre Uncut:
  A Coin in Somebody Else’s Pocket