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Season of Migration to the North with Leila Aboulela

Ep. 17

Tayeb Salih in London. The novelist Leila Aboulela meets Henry in London to discuss Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, which was voted the most important Arab novel of the 20th century by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus. The novel is set in both a small village in northern Sudan and various locations in London, the city that Tayeb Salih made his home. Leila and Henry visit Victoria Station, Speaker’s Corner, the London Central Mosque, the Old Bailey and Cleopatra’s Needle.

 

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Penguin Modern Classics)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57444/season-of-migration-to-the-north-by-tayeb-salih-trans-denys-johnson-davies/9780141187204

 

Leila Aboulela

http://www.leila-aboulela.com/

 

The Translator by Leila Aboulela

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/

https://apple.co/3UGl6Uy

 

The Minaret by Leila Aboulela

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/

https://apple.co/3xSuwTq

 

London Central Mosque

https://www.iccuk.org/

 

The Old Bailey

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court

 

The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tayeb-salih/products/the-wedding-of-zein

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