Book Launch | Thursday 22 October, 19:30, Galerie Nord | Event Details Here

Chapters will be the official booksellers for Bobuq Sayed’s only Berlin launch of No God But Us, where the author will be in conversation with Moshtari Hilal and Edwin Nasr.

No God But Us tells a tale of love and borders – and how they are breached. When Delbar’s double life is outed to his mother, he flees his Afghan American community and takes refuge with his aunt in Istanbul. There he meets another Afghan, Mansur, who has made his own sacrifices to leave his family in Iran and migrate to Turkey. At an NGO supporting queer and trans refugees, Delbar and Mansur find comfort in each other and the company of new friends. But Turkish state repression is escalating, and as their pathways to security diverge, the fault lines between them become impossible to ignore.

About Bobuq Sayed:

Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker whose writing explores themes of migration, Islam and queer sexuality. They are the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook of essays, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia. A 2022–23 Steinbeck fellow at San José State University, a Lambda Literary scholar, and an award-winning James A. Michener fellow in the University of Miami’s MFA programme in creative writing, Bobuq lives in Brooklyn, New York.