Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
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Shafik Meghji
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Last chance to pick up a ticket for my event at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social tomorrow evening (Tues 16th) with fellow travel writer Louis D Hall 👇🏽
In the new issue of @mountains-magazine.com, I write about the human history of the Andes, via a high-altitude train cemetery in Bolivia, Patagonian sheep ranches the size of small countries, a realm of ‘ghost cats’, and the ‘mountain that eats men’.
If you’re into it, there’s a book for it 🤗📚
It’s also the weekend !! 🙌
Make sure you check these lovely ones out 📖
@stanfordstravel.bsky.social
‘This should ring alarm bells for everyone’
In March, nearly 200 titles were pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors such as Nova Reid’s The Good Ally.
This rising censorship is a serious concern, writes journalist Kitty Melrose in our latest blog ✍️
🌎⚽️ With 48 countries playing in the World Cup, what indie publisher has more books on the history, culture and politics of the participating nations? We've got a whopping 34 covered! You can find them at hurstpublishers.com.
It’s Independent Bookshop Week!! 🎉
Make sure you visit your favourite, show your support and buy a book or six !! 🤗📚📚
#indiebookshopweek
Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal is deeply disappointing.
This case remains about much more than one group.
The banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is a grave misuse of counter-terrorism powers with serious consequences for human rights.
GROUP J
🇦🇷 Argentina: @shafikmeghji.bsky.social’s award-winning ‘Small Earthquakes’ travels through Argentina.
🇩🇿 Algeria: See Michael J. Willis’s ‘Algeria’
🇦🇹 Austria: Esteemed journalist P Lendvai assesses the current political situation in 'Austria: Behind the Mask.'
🇯🇴 Jordan: 'Voices of Jordan.'
GROUP H
🇪🇸Spain: @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social's 'Travels through the Spanish Civil War' .
🇨🇻 Malyn Newitt's'Cabo Verde & the Creole South Atlantic' by .
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social's 'Kingdom of Football' .
🇺🇾 Uruguay: @shafikmeghji.bsky.social ’s ‘Small Earthquakes’
Once seen as a culture war confined to the USA, book censorship is gaining ground in the UK. Authors, librarians and teachers warn of mounting pressure to remove titles from school libraries, particul...
