MACFEST2021: Famous Muslim Writers of the Past

Let us take you on a literary journey around the world through the centuries.

Join us again for our popular literary event, as we celebrate the works of famous Muslim poets and writers including; Averroes, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Gai Eaton, and Yunus Emre.

Read by: Munira Alsusa, Myriam Francois, Gulcin Ulas Bulut . Also Moneeza Hashmi, will join us from Lahore in Pakistan. She will talk about and read her father, Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poetry.

Hosted by Asad Zaman, Principal of a private college, Imam, commentator on Islamic Issues for the BBC.

Introduced by: Dr Jess Edwards, Head of the Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University.