“Nothing prepared me for what I saw in Palestine […] it reminded me of a dystopian sci-fi film.” Palfest Podcast day! Watch Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed on Palestine and Kashmir. youtu.be/kP9O9QPHZ9o?...

An excerpt from my new novel Maryam & Son in the Inverse Journal. Beautiful presented ~ www.inversejournal.com/2026/03/08/b...

Astute reading of the novel in The Hindu - www.thehindu.com/books/book-r...

Today is the publication day for my new novel Maryam & Son, a book I’ve lived with for six years. It’s out in the world now for you to have it. Available from bookstores across India and online.

My new novel Maryam & Son will be published first in India on January 26. It’s a novel about motherhood, desire, surveillance and one woman’s refusal to let the state dictate her story. If you’d like to spend time in Maryam’s company, please preorder here: www.amazon.in/Maryam-Son-M...

Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed discuss Palestine, Kashmir and their parallel histories. This was a live event recorded at London’s Southbank Centre and we’re glad to be able to share it with you now as the latest episode of the PalFest Podcast thepalfestpodcast.podbean.com/e/special-li...

The success of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should have been celebrated in India, but the fact that it was largely ignored tells you how small the country has become under a bigoted "India First" government. m.thewire.in/article/comm...

“Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?” ~ Hussam Marouf Hunger That Defeats Language arablit.org/2025/05/30/h...

No. There just isn’t enough pressure on Israel. Don’t buy the statements and platitudes. If there were real pressure, the genocide would have stopped. Western powers haven’t failed to stop #Israel, they have chosen not to.

Trailer for The Collaborator, film based on my debut novel, is out. You can watch it here ~ youtu.be/zwI4JepXLOo?si…

“Soldiers and artillery guns were stationed across valleys and rivers where previously people had strolled from this village to that. Families were split, brothers and sisters divided.” My essay for @bloomberg.com on why Kashmir needs more than a pause in the violence.

remembering the tens of thousands of Tamils massacred by the Sri Lankan state, those who continue to be denied justice, dignity and freedom, and those who fight every day for truth and accountability 🪔 #Mullivaikkal

Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan

Novelist and journalist @mirzawaheed.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/mirza-waheed...

My radio essay on the Line of Control and Kashmir for the BBC World Service. I reflect on borders, memory, and what the LoC means today. Listen from 06:08 onwards: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

As tensions between India and Pakistan reach a peak in the aftermath of an attack on Pahalgam in Kashmir, will the Western powers step in to mediate? Kashmiri writer @mirzawaheed.bsky.social responds.

I wrote about the forever war between India and Pakistan and the silencing of Kashmir. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Episode 2 of RLF’s new COLLECTED podcast is out! What an honour it was to have @katemossewriter.bsky.social in the studio with @carosanderson.bsky.social Featuring work by @mirzawaheed.bsky.social, Aisha Zia, Polly Morland, Charlie Hill and Simon Robson podcast.rlf.org.uk/476-kate-mos...

Out of Empire Tahmima Anam and I will talk about ‘Out of Empire’ on 19 January. This conversation is a part of the South Asian Literary Association’s 2025 Annual Conference. I hope you can join us from where you are. Details are in the poster.

Perhaps the only worthwhile New Year’s resolution is to reflect on the year of genocide and ask ourselves what we can do in our small ways to stop it and hold those responsible accountable.

About my new novel Maryam & Son. Out next year.

Once upon a time in the Vaadi

One of the best books of the year. @tinhouse.bsky.social

There’s something fundamentally wrong about screening a film in an Israeli settlement in the middle of a genocide. lithub.com/theyre-scree...

“I now realise that there are only two kinds of people in the world. People who are bereaved and those who are yet to be bereaved” www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...