Book Launch- Seeing for Ourselves by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
| Dates: | 30 January 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:15 - 19:30 |
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| What is it: | Book launch |
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| Organiser: | John Rylands Library |
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| Who is it for: | General public |
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We're pleased to partner with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Trust to welcome Suhaiymah to The Rylands to launch her new work.
Why do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visible? How do we want to be perceived, and how are we exposed? Could we ever really see for ourselves?
In memoir, vignettes, poetry and essays, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan records her observations from the stands at the dizzying circus of being seen and unseen. She surveys the criminalising stadium of civic life, the open-air arenas of family, friendship and grief, the performative pageantry of the public eye and the unclad secrets of the self in solitude, paying attention to what’s on show and what goes undetected.
Perhaps the strangest, most exciting possibilities are opened when we surrender to another kind of sight. Submitting to the gaze of the Unseen and the All-Seeing, Manzoor-Khan invites us to close our eyes and discover what it would mean to look with our souls instead.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a poet and writer whose work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence and knowledge. She is the author of Tangled in Terror and the poetry collection Postcolonial Banter; a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University; and a contributor to the anthologies Cut from the Same Cloth? and I Refuse to Condemn. She is based in Leeds and is currently writing for theatre.
Seeing for Ourselves will be available to buy at the event with a chance to have your copy signed by Suhaiymah after the event.
There will be refreshments served from 5.15pm with the event starting at 6pm in the Historic Reading Room.
To book your free ticket for this event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-seeing-for-ourselves-by-suhaiymah-manzoor-khan-tickets-780638048417
Find out more about the work of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Trust
https://www.racearchive.org.uk/
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John Rylands Research Institute and Library
150 Deansgate
Manchester
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