Previous events
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JUN 27
Kenny MacAskill in conversation with Henry Macleish on The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice
Kenny MacAskill in conversation with Henry Macleish on The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice Four days before Christmas Day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up in the sky above Scotland. The bombers had planned that the wreckage to have come down over the Atlantic but a delay to the flight resulted in it falling over the south of Scotland...
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JUN 21
An evening of Provocations with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, James Bloodworth, Claire Fox and Ziauddin Sardar
Join Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, James Bloodworth, Claire Fox and Ziauddin Sardar for an evening of Provocations at Waterstones Piccadilly. Provocations is a groundbreaking series of short polemics composed by some of the most intriguing voices in contemporary culture and edited by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Sharp, intelligent and controversial, Provocations provides...
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JUN 17
Isabel Oakeshott at Borders Book Festival
People call the Prime Minister lots of things, as this notorious and unauthorised biography reveals. Isabel Oakeshott traces David Cameron’s rise from television PR man to member of parliament, leader of his party and eventually leader of the country. Several revelations in Call Me Dave including something about a pig, or was it pigheadedness, have...
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JUN 16
Kenny MacAskill at Waterstones Glasgow
FREE event call 01413329105 to reserve your place asap. Join former Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill MSP as he discusses his definitive account of the atrocity and aftermath of The Lockerbie Bombing. On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard...
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MAY 31
Kenny MacAskill at Blackwells Edinburgh
Blackwall's Edinburgh presents...Kenny MacAskill : The Lockerbie Bombing Join former Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill MSP for the launch of his definitive account of the atrocity and aftermath of The Lockerbie Bombing. On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing...
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MAY 22
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar, Harry Leslie Smith and Alan Dix Sing & Louder Sing: Men, Ageing and Mortality Sing & Louder Sing is 509 Arts’ new music-theatre production planned for Autumn 2016 about older men, ageing and mortality, using voices from many different backgrounds. Men’s experiences of change – physical, emotional and attitudinal, as they move...
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MAY 22
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar ‘Is There an Islam Beyond the Mad Max Jihadis?’ & Other Questions You’ve Always Wanted To Ask Writer, broadcaster and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar is chair of the Muslim Institute and is as frightened by the rise of Islamic Jihadi groups as everyone else. His new book ‘Islam Beyond the Mad Max Jihadis’ tackles the big question for...
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MAY 21
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
Ziauddin Sardar and John Sweeney Postnormal Futures The ‘postnormal’ or ‘postnormal times’ concept attempts to describe our present time, with all its turbulence, complexity and change. Author and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar, who developed the concept, describes it as “an in between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very...
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MAY 21
Ziauddin Sardar at Bradford Literature Festival
In conversation with Andrew Brown, Sunny Hundal and Samia Rahman Critical Muslim: Extreme Extreme ways take many different forms, be it religious fundamentalism, corruption, extreme geology or the extreme lengths people will go to in order to escape a situation. The current issue of the ‘Critical Muslim’ journal investigates the ‘Extreme’ theme and covers...
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MAY 14
Azi Ahmed at Winchester Speakers' Festival
By the age of 12, Azi Ahmed had been fully trained in all the skills her mother thought necessary to become the perfect housewife: knitting, sewing and sitting pretty. Little did she know that a rather different sort of training lay in her future. With no military experience, physically slight and before entering Chelsea Barracks, socially isolated...
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