The Untold Story of the Vagabond Princess Gul...

Writer Zaina Arafat joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss belonging to multiple cultures, how New York became “Habibi City,” and her new book “Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging and Hope.” Produced by Finbar Anderson 

On this month’s episode of Global Insights on The Lede, author and Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin and AI researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss the AI accusations that have hit major literary prizes this year, why African writers feel pressure to tell t ...  Show more

Gulbadan Begum was meant to live a quiet life in a Mughal harem. Instead she set off on a daring pilgrimage to Islam's holy cities and, on her return, wrote an extraordinary account of her dynasty. In conversation with Spencer Mizen, Ruby Lal explores the life of a princess who t ...  Show more

In the British Library, there is a manuscript copy of the memoir of Princess Gulbadan, the only surviving female-authored memoir from the Mughal Empire. In it, Gulbadan tells her extraordinary story: from growing up in a multi-cultural society, via life in a walled harem, to ...

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi and comedian Sindhu Vee to explore The Mughal Empire and its legacy in art and architecture. We learn why an Emperor always needed to be wary of his siblings and how a zebra came to cause disbelief in court, and we hear th ...  Show more