Anahit Behrooz

Edinburgh

Books and Events Editor at The Skinny

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Articles

Scotland's Best Events This Week (19-26 Jun)

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

A cultural life – how it is shaped and established and fought for – takes centre stage at Art 27 Scotland’s Culture = Life: Palestinian Artist Programme, a mini festival curated for Refugee Week which explores the power of art in the face of erasure.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (12-19 Jun)

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

Get out the cake and balloons, beloved Glasgow venue The Hug and Pint turns ten. To celebrate, they have a month’s worth of gigs featuring the best of the local music scene and beyond, running from now until the end of June. There's so much to discover here, from old favourites to news discoveries. We’re especially excited by fairy doom trio Fae Tooth (pictured), the evocatively titled Brooklyn art pop outfit Fantasy of a Broken Heart, and Edinburgh-based indie singer-songwriter Withered Hand.
Ask Anahit: Get Over It – The Skinny

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

How do I (gently) tell my friend they need to get over their ex, who is in a new relationship? There’s this tweet I think about often (cursed sentence), which goes something like ‘Taylor Swift's music is for people who have never gotten over anything that has happened to them ever’ (also cursed sentence).
Javad Daraei on his screenings at Refugee Festival Scotland – The Skinny

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

I meet Javad Daraei mere days after the UK government – under the leadership of a supposedly left party – announces new plans for limiting immigration, including raising skill and language requirements and doubling the timeframe for acquiring settled status.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (5-12 Jun)

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

After a smaller scale year in 2024, Hidden Door makes its big return to Edinburgh’s festival circuit, taking over the massive abandoned Paper Factory on the outskirts of Costorphine from 11-15 June. One of Edinburgh's most unique and creative festivals, the programme spans everything from music to visual art to curious performances and installations created in response to the specific site, creating a veritable labyrinth of art to explore.
Scottish Books Events: June 2025 – The Skinny

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

It’s a bit of a sexy time at Lighthouse Bookshop this coming month: author and literary translator Arielle Burgdorf launches their queer experimental novel Jeanne (5 Jun), Anastasiia Fedorova launches Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire (17 Jun), and Melissa Febos is in conversation with Dina Nayeri about her new book exploring a year of celibacy The Dry Season (26 Jun).
Scotland's Best Events This Week (29 May-5 Jun)

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

New electronic dance music festival Days Festival had their inaugural issue in September of last year, and they're already back for a gorgeous spring/summer edition taking place at The Pitt in Granton on 31 May.
Scotland's Best Events This Week (22-29 May)

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

Spring always means the reopening of gorgeous Edinburgh-adjacent sculpture park Jupiter Artland and the launch of their summer exhibition programme. This year they're welcoming artist Jonathan Baldock, whose new exhibition WYRD is a veritable zoo of hybrid animals formed from textile and clay, drawing on animals who exhibit same-sex sexual impulses – penguins, giraffes, crabs and elephants – who mutate into mythic harpies, mermaids and phoenixes.
Catherine Lacey on her fiction-memoir hybrid The Möbius Book – The Skinny

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

“An object of rage” – this is how Catherine Lacey described her latest work, fiction-memoir hybrid The Möbius Book, on first delivering it to her editors. Or she did, until her editors gently pointed out that an object of rage is not necessarily a book. She laughs ruefully, wincing when I ask when in the editing process the anger was excised. “There’s still definitely some in there, right?” she says. “The rage is doing a lot of things.
The Write Place: Arkbound's writing workshops and crowdfunders

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

Arkbound Promoted Content Scotland’s literary culture is second to none: Edinburgh is a UNESCO City of Literature, book festivals take over the country throughout the year, and Rabbie Burns’ face seems to be everywhere. But maybe the most welcome part of Scotland’s book culture is the network of support that is offered to emerging and local writers, with workshops, grassroots festivals and mentorship schemes available to help new writers navigate the complex landscape.