An evening with Nussaibah Younis, in conversation about faith, belonging, and Fundamentally

A novel about a British Asian academic sent to Iraq to work in deradicalisation should not be this funny. And yet.

Fundamentally is Nussaibah Younis’s award-winning, widely nominated, and highly celebrated debut novel, praised for its sharp intelligence, moral complexity, and dark humour, and confirming Younis as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary fiction.

Nussaibah spent years working in deradicalisation before writing it, which is perhaps why the novel feels so lived-in, so incisive, and so unwilling to let anyone off the hook. Funny, politically sharp, and deeply humane, it asks difficult questions about faith, belonging, power, and the limits of intervention.

Sharmaine sits down with Nussaibah to talk about writing across politics and intimacy, finding comedy inside dark material, and what fiction can hold when it refuses easy answers.

A conversation about chaos, conviction, and the uneasy space where belief, identity, and humanity collide.

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