Sultana's Book Club
Extraordinary books, Remarkable authors, Great conversations.
A monthly gathering for women who value books, ideas and intelligent conversation.
Sultana’s Book Club brings together accomplished women, leaders and curious minds for thoughtful conversation around exceptional books and the ideas they provoke.
Selections span fiction, memoir, history, politics, culture and contemporary thought, with a particular interest in women’s voices, distinctive perspectives and questions of power, identity, ambition, leadership, justice and belonging.
Each month, one carefully chosen book becomes the starting point for a wider conversation — about what it reveals, whose perspective it centres, the ideas it challenges and why its story matters.
The club grew in part from Sultana’s own interest in writing a book drawn from more than twenty years at the Bar, and her fascination with how powerful storytelling can illuminate experience, shift perspective and shape the way we understand the world.
The Othered Woman with Shahed Ezaydi
30th September 2026, 18:00-20:00
Central London
A conversation between leading human rights barrister Sultana Tafadar KC and British-Libyan journalist Shahed Ezaydi to discuss her debut book, The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women.
The Othered Woman begins with a question many Muslim women already know the answer to: what happens when you are forced to speak through a caricature of yourself?
Ezaydi recentres a critique that has long been articulated by Muslim women but too often ignored. She argues that mainstream feminism, despite presenting itself as universal, has repeatedly failed Muslim women and has, at times, been complicit in their oppression. The problem extends far beyond familiar portrayals of Muslim women as oppressed, submissive and in need of being saved. Ezaydi examines what these narratives obscure: the complexity of Muslim women’s lives and the structural conditions which shape their experiences, as well as the political possibilities erased as a consequence.
From the politics of the veil and the racialisation of Muslim men to the exclusion of Palestine from mainstream feminist discourse, this conversation will explore who exactly feminism currently speaks for, whose experiences it marginalises and what a genuinely liberatory feminist politics must demand.
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A Whole Heap of Mix Up with Stella Dadzie
14th October 2026, 18:00 – 20:00
Central London
A conversation between leading human rights barrister Sultana Tafadar KC and Stella Dadzie, a leading figure in Black British feminism, to discuss her memoir, A Whole Heap of Mix Up.
Stella Dadzie is a leading figure in the Black feminist movement in Britain, and her recent memoir brings together a rich treasury of reflections on a life lived in the struggle, showcasing both her political commitment and her creativity. As well as critical writing on race and gender in Britain, the collection includes short stories, poems, speeches, travel writings and a curated selection of artwork. All take their inspiration from the wide range of Dadzie’s life and work – her personal biography, her decades of political activism and critical thinking, and her extensive travel in Africa and the Caribbean.
In this conversation, Sultana and Stella will explore the all important questions which arise from this book - including how the lives and struggles of Black and other racialised women are remembered and recorded; the relationship between lived experience and political struggle; and what younger generations can learn from the movements that came before them. At its heart, the conversation will ask how struggles for racial and gender justice can remain connected across generations - and what it means to inherit and carry forward that work, steadfast and principled.
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An African History of Africa with Zeinab Badawi
6th November 2026, 18:00 – 20:00
Central London
A conversation between leading human rights barrister Sultana Tafadar KC and award-winning journalist Zeinab Badawi to discuss her recent book, An African History of Africa
In An African History of Africa, Badawi tells the story of the continent from the perspective of Africans themselves, drawing on historians, scholars, archaeologists and communities from across the continent. Spanning ancient civilisations, kingdoms, empires and colonial rule, and the enduring impact of neocolonialism, the book challenges the narrow and often distorted ways in which African history has traditionally been taught and understood.
The conversation will explore what changes when African voices are placed at the centre of their own history; how colonial narratives continue to shape our understanding of the continent; and why recovering the complexity, diversity and dynamism of Africa’s past matters in the present. It will also consider the power involved in deciding whose histories are recorded, whose knowledge is treated as authoritative, and how we might rethink inherited ways of seeing the world.
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Ever Land with Amy Abdelnoor
10 December, 18:00 – 20:00
Central London
A conversation between leading human rights barrister Sultana Tafadar KC and British-Lebanese writer Amy Abdelnoor to discuss her debut novel, Ever Land.
Set in Palestine across two generations, Ever Land follows Safa, a Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in 1967 whose village and family have been destroyed, and Dinah, a British Jewish teenager whose family moves to Israel to occupy a settlement built over the landscape Safa once inhabited. Through their intertwined stories, the novel confronts the realities of occupation and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and, whilst exploring how the past continues to live on in the land and in the lives of those marked by ongoing dispossession.
The conversation between Amy and Sultana will explore the relationship between land, memory and Palestinian identity; how displacement and dispossession reverberate across generations; and the humanising power of storytelling in the face of the systematic dehumanisation. They will also reflect on how writing can give form to something a physical occupation cannot fully eradicate: the almost transcendent connection to land that outlives material displacement.
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