Samira Ahmed
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Samira Ahmed is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, for which she presents Front Row on Radio 4 and Newswatch on the BBC News channel and BBC One during BBC Breakfast, and regularly presents radio documentaries.
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We live in an age of internment right now…and it’s not just in the United States. These things are happening globally…Silence is complicity.
On speaking out against interning people in “INTERVIEWS: Samira Ahmed - Who gets to feel at home in America?” in Book Page (Apr 2019)
Writing for young adults is writing into the realm of possibility…I always say that middle age novels are about doors closing, and young adult novels are about doors opening.
On writing young adult novels in “INTERVIEWS: Samira Ahmed - Who gets to feel at home in America?” in Book Page (Apr 2019)
A child always grows away from their parents. That is the job of a parent - to give their child the tools to be independent.
On the immigrant families in “An Indies Introduce Q&A With Samira Ahmed” (American Booksellers Association; 2018 Jan 19)
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Samira Ahmed is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, for which she presents Front Row on Radio 4 and Newswatch on the BBC News channel and BBC One during BBC Breakfast, and regularly presents radio documentaries. She was named British Broadcasting Press Guild audio presenter of the year in March 2020.
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