Maya Jaggi The Guardian Brentford School UCL Institute of Education Rohit Jaggi Madhur Jaffrey Zia Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Boyd Tonkin MeeraSyal💙 Salman Rushdie Hanif Kureishi She was an incredible English teacher, making time at lunchtimes to help us recite poetry, just for the love of it. And always beautifully dressed. My condolences 🙏🏽

Maya Jaggi AkhtarAsmah The Guardian Brentford School UCL Institute of Education Rohit Jaggi Zia Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Boyd Tonkin MeeraSyal💙 Salman Rushdie Hanif Kureishi Thank you for all the love and admiration you have shown for my beloved sister…Madhur Jaffrey

My FT Weekend Arts preview of #Prague’s new Mucha Museum at Savarin Palace, opening 24 Feb 2025 to ‘dynamite the idea that #AlphonseMucha was just a poster artist,’ his grandson tells me: ft.com/content/6b9430… Mucha Foundation #ArtNouveau #TheSlavEpic #CzechRepublic #Moravia

This Gulf show on leading French Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme without his nudes is as misconceived as Victorians’ fig-leafed displays. My artforum review of 'Seeing Is Believing' at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, #Doha, #Qatar #Orientalism artforum.com/events/gerome-…

As art-world power shifts towards the #Gulf, I write for @ft on why SharjahArtFoundation is different, and listen in to a global conversation at #SharjahBiennial 16, in the emirate just east of #Dubai until June 15. #contemporaryart #arabart #Sharjah #UEA ft.com/content/3f2475…

'Region’s oldest art biennial SharjahArtFoundation is increasingly spoken of in the same breath as Venice & São Paulo. Sharjah’s record in working w artists —notably fr the global south— is unique [: a] “meeting place 4 global south conversations where you don’t have to explain yourself”'

Good picks by Maya Jaggi-SharjahArtFoundation Biennial shines a light on the global south. At this increasingly prestigious event, artists from across the world explore issues around land, trauma and power. #PayWall ft.com/content/3f2475…

I reviewed Artem Chekh's Rock, Paper, Grenade for Financial Times: a disarming, honest, grotesque, beautiful book about coming of age in tough circumstances, a sort of 400 Blows for Ukraine in the 1990s. Transl. by Olena Jennings & Oksana Rosenblum. Seven Stories Press ft.com/content/15c01b…

🥁📚The #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 shortlist is here! 10 brilliant books carefully chosen by our independent judges Maya Jaggi, Selma Dabbagh, Fergal Keane, Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦. ebrd.com/home/news-and-… 🧵Read the shortlist 👇

The EBRD Maya Jaggi Selma Dabbagh Fergal Keane Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 Thank you The EBRD on behalf of #DamirKarakaš and #EllenEliasBursać for including CELEBRATION. Maya Jaggi Fergal Keane Selma Dabbagh @uilleamblacker you have selected a powerful shortlist! Our congratulations to all the authors and translators here. x

And here it is! A fantastic shortlist of daring, moving, unsettling books from Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Czechia, Hungary, Croatia and Romania... It's been such a pleasure to read and discuss these with Selma Dabbagh Fergal Keane Maya Jaggi.

I haven’t posted for a very long time indeed but these little cultural gems are worth celebrating. Stay tuned for final stages …

The wait is over! Follow The EBRD for the unveiled shortlist for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 - with a strong showing for #womenintranslation. It's a privilege to discuss #literatureintranslation with such perceptive judges, Fergal Keane Selma Dabbagh & Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦. #womenintranslation

Very sad news for the publishing branch of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and for the readers who will miss out on many stellar books. Please check out Oleh's post for ways to help HURI, and check out their books, they are great! Here are some of my favorites:🧵

Moscow killed Mike Yohansen in 1937 and banned all his books. Never expected Washington to try to kill my translation of Yohansen's best novel in 2025... Thank you Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦 The Kyiv Independent for covering the attack on HURI Harvard's brilliant work (story below).

'The wound comes back in my work' - I speak to Lebanese artist Ali Cherri for Financial Times in his Paris studio, ahead of 'How I Am Monument' Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and 'Les Veilleurs' at Marseille MAC. ft.com/content/8df5e1…

Congratulations to then EBRD Literature Prize finalists. It was a tough, tough choice, but we’ve narrowed it down to three amazing novels from Ukraine, Poland and Croatia.

Warm congratulations to our 3 finalist authors and translators for the The EBRD Literature Prize 2025, and huge thanks to my fellow judges Fergal Keane Selma Dabbagh & Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦!

Congratulations to the WINNERS of the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025! Croatian author Ivana Bodrožić & translator Ellen Elias-Bursać for Sons, Daughters from Seven Stories Press UK! Praised by Maya Jaggi as “fiction that has the power to transform how we see the world, others & ourselves.”

For FT Weekend, I visit the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum near the #Giza pyramids just outside #Cairo; its cleverly curated collection offers food for critical thinking as well as wonder. Online (paywall) here: ft.com/content/de6aa1… #Egypt