Anahit Behrooz

Edinburgh

Books and Events Editor at The Skinny

books + events editor @ the skinny | BFFs out @ 404 ink | words @ another mag, little white lies, girls on tops, gal-dem, the big issue, the scotsman | she/her

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Articles

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle: Book Review – The Skinny

2 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

Book title: On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) Author: Solvej Balle Growth, transition, death: love conquers everything except, perhaps, for the fact of time – the last immoveable frontier between two people.
CCA Highlights: April 2025 – The Skinny

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

Alia Syed: A Ring in the FishOpening 16 MayThe CCA’s big spring exhibition is Alia Syed’s A Ring in the Fish, which uses moving image work to explore Kabbadi, a traditional South Asian sport, women’s stories, monuments, and the construction of national narratives and storytelling.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (3-10 Apr)

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

There's a lot of Derek Jarman over in Glasgow at the moment. Head to the Hunterian Museum for Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature, an exhibition entering its final month until 4 May, focused on the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and writer's painting, moving image and queer activism, alongside commissioned responses from contemporary artists.
Ask Anahit: Boundary Spaces – The Skinny

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

What’s your advice on how to approach a close friend who is in love with you but it makes you feel uncomfortable? She’s unaware that I know but her advances are becoming more and more obvious. I’ve opposed the idea of us as a couple multiple times to her face but nothing’s changed. I don’t want to drop the friend however things have got out of hand.
Scottish Books Events: April 2025

3 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

Paisley Book Festival kicks off over in, well, Paisley this month, with a great lineup full of favourites from 25 to 27 April: find the likes of Heather Parry and Hannah Lavery in conversation, a panel on food and memoir featuring Julie Lin, Pam Brunton and Katie Goh, and the Paisley heat of the Loud Poets Slam Series.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (27 Mar-3 Apr)

4 weeks ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

This week we travel down technically to England (gasp!) for the 20th edition of the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, taking place in the seaside town of Berwick-upon-Tweed from 27-30 March. The programme kicks off with Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, an eerie docufiction work set in militarily occupied territory in Sri Lanka that lyrically examines the stories of missing people through a supernatural story of a son that disappears.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (20-27 Mar)

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

RSA New Contemporaries has its sweet sixteenth birthday this year, and is celebrating with its usual incredible exhibition platforming the most exciting and cutting-edge talent emerging from Scotland's visual arts scene. Running at the RSA on Edinburgh's Mound from 22 March-16 April, the exhibition showcases 63 graduates selected from the 2024 degree shows across Scotland's various art schools, providing a comprehensive glimpse of a new wave of artistic practice.
Ask Anahit: Friend Group – The Skinny

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

I (like many of us I’m sure) dream of having a close knit community of friends who spend time together that’s more than just grabbing coffee. But I have an in-person job with set hours, everyone’s tired and busy, and I don’t feel like I’ve got the energy to organise stuff. Any advice? I was convinced my best friend had sent in this question, because we talk about this all the time, and it turns out she didn’t and is weirded out, because we talk about this all the time.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (8-15 Feb)

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

One of the UK’s most significant contemporary filmmakers, Steve McQueen is the renowned director of the likes of 12 Years a Slave, Small Axe and Occupied City. His moving image work Grenfell is a document of the aftermath of the Grenfell fire, and the political and social neglect that it threw into relief. McQueen filmed the tower before it became covered in hoarding, seeking to make a record of the building and what it came to represent about contemporary Britain.
Scottish Books Events: March 2025 – The Skinny

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Anahit Behrooz

It’s all happening in Fife this month with the 2025 edition of StAnza, St Andrews’ poetry festival (14-16 Mar). This year’s programme is structured around ideas of feeling, so get ready to get into your feels with a cabaret opening night featuring the likes of Tim Tim Cheng and Theresa Lola, a masterclass with Jackie Kay, sound poems with Hannah Silva and Harry Josephine Giles, and a closing night featuring Joelle Taylor.