Event overview
A Migrant Futures Institute event with Taran Khan, author and award winning journalist.
Taran Khan will discuss her journey from reporting in Afghanistan to engaging with Afghan communities globally. This includes setting up and running the Simurgh Centre, a cultural space for Afghan asylum seekers in Delhi, and reporting on Afghan artists in Hamburg, examining their creative responses to displacement. She will share insights from the writing workshops that she runs with women in Delhi and Kabul, and talk about her new reporting project that follows the lives of Afghan migrants in the UK.
Moderated by Sultan Doughan
Discussants: Marcela Pizarro and Najiba Rafiei
Taran Khan is an award-winning journalist and writer and the author of Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and McSweeney's, among others. She has received fellowships for her work from MacDowell, Jan Michalski Foundation and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Marcela Pizarro is lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Marcela has worked as a journalist in international news and filmmaking for over 20 years. She began at the Associated Press and then went on to work at Al Jazeera English, most notably at The Listening Post, the channel’s media critique show. She has focused on the political economy, geopolitics and culture of the news media around the world. Her long form reports, documentaries and animations look at issues of race, gender and class and much of her work has been dedicated to histories of journalism in the Global South.
Najiba Rafiei is a member of Community Interest Company (CIC) in London, where she delivers employability training and support for refugees, helping them rebuild their lives and navigate the challenges of integration. Her lived experience of displacement as an Afghan-Hazara woman who fled the Taliban in 2021 deeply informs her work. She is committed to creating spaces of empowerment and opportunity for others who have faced forced migration. She is also pursuing an MSc in Environment, Politics, and Society at University College London (UCL), where she continues to deepen her understanding of social and environmental justice.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 May 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
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