Mishal Husain

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Recreating my grandparents’ epic journey into remotest Pakistan

Aug 31, 2024 | ft.com | Mishal Husain

“Hunza is situated among a congress of great mountains, a concentration of lofty peaks, many of them unnamed, where the greatest folding...
Mishal Husain: How I’ll referee high-stakes debate with voters at its heart

Jun 26, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Mishal Husain

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How I’ll referee BBC leaders' debate with voters at its heart

Jun 26, 2024 | bbc.com | Mishal Husain

Mishal Husain: How I’ll referee high-stakes debate with voters at its heartBy Mishal Husain, Presenter, BBC Prime Ministerial DebateBBCOn Wednesday night, on a debate stage built in an atrium at Nottingham Trent University, the two men who want to lead the country will face each other directly for the last time in this election campaign. As Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer go head-to-head, I’ll be chairing the 75-minute debate, aiming to get voters’ questions answered - and as fully as possible.
‘The Girl with The Seven Lives’ – ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ novel writer Vikas Swarup on his latest book… (Instagram Reel) JLF London 2024 wrap - Asian Culture Vulture

Jun 12, 2024 | asianculturevulture.com | Mishal Husain

NOVELIST and now retired Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup, the man behind the original story of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (in ‘Q&A’) tells us about his next book ‘The Girl With The Seven Lives‘ which comes out on July 15, in India. It has an absolutely cracking opening – watch him talk about the opening of this new title, which is already drawing close parallels to Slumdog.
The Endless Country by Sami Kent

May 21, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | Hannah Smith |Mishal Husain |Neel Mukherjee |Sami Kent

AmazonBlackwell'sBookshop.orgFoylesWaterstonesWH SmithWorderyImprint: PicadorSynopsis'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal Husain'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page' – Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of OthersThe Endless Country takes a journey...
‘A sense of wonder enveloped my mother and me’: Mishal Husain on her eye-opening journey through Uzbekistan in search of an ancestor

Apr 27, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Mishal Husain

Mishal Husain, right, and her mother, Shama, outside the mausoleum of their ancestor, Amir Kulal, in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, in March.Photograph: Yam G-Jun/The Guardian‘Can you read what it says?” It was 1992 and I was standing in Samarkand’s impressive Registan Square, looking up at Arabic inscriptions on 15th- and 17th-century buildings, when an Uzbek man approached me, speaking in Russian.
Broken Threads by Mishal Husain

Mar 10, 2024 | waterstones.com | Mishal Husain

‘I witnessed the dwindling glow of the British Empire. I saw small men entrusted with great jobs, playing with the destiny of millions’The extraordinary story of broadcaster Mishal Husain’s grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Weaving an ancestral odyssey, Mishal sheds light on the last generation born into the Raj in India, amid substantial societal shifts.
Mishal Husain: Is my mother's missing portrait hanging on your wall?

Oct 23, 2021 | telegraph.co.uk | Mishal Husain
Cressida Dick: Trust in the Met Police 'still too low'

Mar 25, 2021 | bbc.co.uk | Mishal Husain |Harry Farley
Cressida Dick: Trust in the Met Police 'still too low'

Mar 25, 2021 | bbc.com | Mishal Husain |Harry Farley