Suhayl Saadi lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His books include The Snake (1997), The Burning Mirror (2001), Psychoraag (2004), The White Cliffs (2005) and Joseph’s Box (2009). He has written for BBC Radio and for the stage. He was a British Council writer-in-residence at George Washington University.
Suhayl Saadi
Close Up
The seven lamps of writing
I write because I am, and I write because I am not
5th November 2025
In conversation
Suhayl Saadi: 'I’m very privileged and fortunate to have worked in medicine because it gives you exposure to humanity in every incarnation.'
In conversation with Bashabi Fraser
22nd October 2025
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The Black Mirror
An evocative piece about an estate agent who visits a property on her list that she hoped would never sell
24th September 2025
Close Up
Alice Through the Looking-Glass – after 50 years of reading
On being transported to the quintessentially Victorian house and garden of the Reverend Charles Dodgson.
30th July 2025
Original Series
To pin the wings of the butterfly
Suhayl Saadi notes the idea of a continuum effecting shifting change in multiple worlds as he challenges ‘nativist clerical fascism’.
5th July 2021
Suhayl Saadi
Suhayl Saadi lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His books include The Snake, The Burning Mirror and Psychoraag.
Image credit: Suhayl Saadi by Roddy Simpson