Season of Migration to the North with Leila Aboulela
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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)
Leila Aboulela
http://www.leila-aboulela.com/
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/
The Minaret by Leila Aboulela
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/
London Central Mosque
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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