Bilingual English and Bangla Event
Features: Mozid Mahmud, AK Zilani, and Amali Ibrahim
Saturday, July 12, 7.00-8.30 pm (SGT)
Book Bar, 57 Duxton Road, Singapore
Free and Open to All

Acclaimed Bangladeshi poet Mozid Mahmud presents his first novel Memorial Club in Singapore. Translated from Bangla to English by the author himself, Memorial Club is an intoxicating meditation on desire, dreams, and the limits of justice. Hasan is a young journalist in Dhaka, disillusioned about his job, dissatisfied with his pregnant wife, and yearning for his independent-minded colleague, Bilu. One fateful night, he stumbles into a hapless, embarrassing situation that turns his life upside down. 

Mozid Mahmud will be joined by poet AK Zilani and scholar Nur Amali Ibrahim for readings and discussion at this special bilingual English-Bangla literary event.

Mozid Mahmud is a poet and novelist based in Bangladesh. His works include the poems in Mahfuzamangal and the novel Tumi Shunite Cheyo Na. He has been awarded the Rabindra-Nazrul Literary Prize and the Bangladesh Writers Club Prize. His novel Memorial Club was published by Gaudy Boy in 2025.

Ak Zilani, a Bangladeshi migrant in Singapore since 2011, writes on inequality, gender discrimination, and human rights. AK Zilani is an active member of Birds Migrant Theatre and co-founder and organizer of Migrant Cultural Show Singapore.

Nur Amali Ibrahim is an anthropologist who teaches at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore. He has conducted research on religion, the state, civil society, and work in Southeast Asia.