I’m a writer and photographer drawn to collisions between literature and photography. Curious about the dynamics of borders and how identities manifest across geographies and disciplines, I love transit spaces, the non-linear, and traces of history that have been ignored or forgotten. I write fiction in Arabic and English and non-fiction in Finnish, and hold a PhD in African Literature from SOAS, University of London.
If you like Arabic novels, check out Al-Qahira Expres. I wrote it as a prelude to the trilogy I am currently working on.
I publish some of my diary entries, mostly on urban issues, literature and languages, under the title Vignettes. These entries also include photographs.
More information about my projects, past and present, is available here.
Thank you for your visit.
J.K. Pikkujämsä 