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Iqbal Ahmed was born in Srinagar, lives in London and is the author of four memoirs which draw on this dual inheritance to illuminate the immigrant experience, combining travel, discovery and daily life alongside reflections on memory, literature and history.
His new book, An Open Book and an Empty Cup: London Regained, is a lyrical, multi-layered exploration of London, interwoven with his Kashmiri heritage. His narrative is enlivened by anecdotes about the places he sees and the people he encounters, and the cafés he discovers and where he lingers with “an open book and empty cup” words derived from W.B. Yeats’s poem ‘Vacillation’, a philosophical meditation on life and its binaries.