Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor based in Paris. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2024). She is the editor of the Decolonize That! book series and the anthologies Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2016), Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), and Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023). Shringarpure co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011, which has since transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, an initiative that builds community and strengthens solidarities through conversations, events, and podcasts on culture and politics. She is a research associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• Introduction: Leila Aboulela Chapter 1: Settling Sudan: An Egyptian Story Chapter 2: Mothers and Daughters: A Khartoum Girlhood Chapter 3: Love and Faith, Faith and Love Chapter 4: Sudan Lost: The Voyage Out Chapter 5: Writing as Refuge Chapter 6: Sudan Regained: A Homecoming

"This biography of Leila Aboulela brings together the woman, her art, and her history in a riveting narration that coheres without reducing Aboulela’s writing to any one dimension of her life. Shringarpure insights are couched in vivid, often picturesque prose that interweaves biography, geopolitical commentary, and literary criticism.."Samina Najmi, California State University and author of Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time."Shringarpure’s sensitive reading of Aboulela’s women speaks to the depth and meticulousness of her research into Aboulela’s life and work. Shringarpure is a skilled storyteller who deftly weaves together Aboulela’s published and unpublished work, her love story, her complex relationship with her mother, and her commitment to Islam.” Sadia Zulfiqar, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor based in Paris. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2024). She is the editor of the Decolonize That! book series and the anthologies Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2016), Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), and Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023). Shringarpure co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011, which has since transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, an initiative that builds community and strengthens solidarities through conversations, events, and podcasts on culture and politics. She is a research associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• Introduction: Leila Aboulela Chapter 1: Settling Sudan: An Egyptian Story Chapter 2: Mothers and Daughters: A Khartoum Girlhood Chapter 3: Love and Faith, Faith and Love Chapter 4: Sudan Lost: The Voyage Out Chapter 5: Writing as Refuge Chapter 6: Sudan Regained: A Homecoming

"This biography of Leila Aboulela brings together the woman, her art, and her history in a riveting narration that coheres without reducing Aboulela’s writing to any one dimension of her life. Shringarpure insights are couched in vivid, often picturesque prose that interweaves biography, geopolitical commentary, and literary criticism.."Samina Najmi, California State University and author of Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time."Shringarpure’s sensitive reading of Aboulela’s women speaks to the depth and meticulousness of her research into Aboulela’s life and work. Shringarpure is a skilled storyteller who deftly weaves together Aboulela’s published and unpublished work, her love story, her complex relationship with her mother, and her commitment to Islam.” Sadia Zulfiqar, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor based in Paris. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2024). She is the editor of the Decolonize That! book series and the anthologies Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2016), Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), and Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023). Shringarpure co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011, which has since transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, an initiative that builds community and strengthens solidarities through conversations, events, and podcasts on culture and politics. She is a research associate at the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• Introduction: Leila Aboulela Chapter 1: Settling Sudan: An Egyptian Story Chapter 2: Mothers and Daughters: A Khartoum Girlhood Chapter 3: Love and Faith, Faith and Love Chapter 4: Sudan Lost: The Voyage Out Chapter 5: Writing as Refuge Chapter 6: Sudan Regained: A Homecoming

"This biography of Leila Aboulela brings together the woman, her art, and her history in a riveting narration that coheres without reducing Aboulela’s writing to any one dimension of her life. Shringarpure insights are couched in vivid, often picturesque prose that interweaves biography, geopolitical commentary, and literary criticism.."Samina Najmi, California State University and author of Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time."Shringarpure’s sensitive reading of Aboulela’s women speaks to the depth and meticulousness of her research into Aboulela’s life and work. Shringarpure is a skilled storyteller who deftly weaves together Aboulela’s published and unpublished work, her love story, her complex relationship with her mother, and her commitment to Islam.” Sadia Zulfiqar, Lahore University of Management Sciences.