Asif Khan – författare

Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with groups of secondary school children, this collection examines immigration to and emigration from the UK. A theatre-in-education project coordinated by Tamasha theatre company and The Migration Museum, children worked on exercises designed to develop their understanding of, and feelings about, migration. Their reactions were then incorporated into a piece of theatre by a professional playwright that the students then performed. This collection brings together these plays along with the unique exercises that inspired them. The plays include: Nothing to Declare by Sharmila Chauhan follows three precious keepsakes and the stories attached to them as their owners are stopped at a hostile border. Potato Moon by Satinder Chohan focuses on the potatoes buried in a share allotment. They become people’s memories in a magical realist Southall and so when they start to go missing, schoolgirl Mira set out to find out why. Wilkommen by Asif Khan follows 11 year Ammar on the most dangerous journey of his life, from war-torn country, across sea and land, to take up the offer of a new life in Europe. Jigsaw by Sumerah Srivstav tells the story of how three angels, horrified by mankind’s cruelty, prepare to wipe them out… until they find an unlikely friend who changes their mind. This is an invaluable collection that gives both teachers the resources to address the sometimes tricky issues surrounding migration and students the opportunity to create and in doing so counteract and humanize the narratives hear in the media and society as a whole.

And we’re gonna do a joint sister/sister routine that’s gonna be so sick . . . that the judges are gonna go . . . ‘wow, these girls . . . "Sisters 360" . . . are the next Hope Blacks!’In Asif Khan's Sisters 360, Fatima and Salima are the closest, coolest, hijabi step-sisters in all of Bradford and they will win the 'Tiny is Mighty' skateboarding competition, there is no doubt about it. They’ve practised every trick in the book, and look (almost) as good as Hope Black on the telly; just check out their YouTube channel if you’re not convinced. Nothing will stop them. Except their parents have started whispering in the kitchen about living apart . . . about moving to different cities . . . only seeing each other in school holidays. How will they perfect their routine and win gold if their whole lives are about to turn 360 too? Only the greatest super plan ever concocted will help them achieve their dreams. Inspired by real-life skateboarding sisters Layna, Maysa and Amaya, and their hero Olympic medallist Sky Brown. This edition was published to coincide with the production at London's Polka Theatre in March 2025.

Bradford, in the month of Ramadan. Shaz, a local garage mechanic, is trying to keep his business going despite the terrible scandal of Asian men involved in grooming young girls for sex in the area. Racists plan to march through the city in protest and Samina, Shaz’s sister wants to make a speech at a counter-demonstration. Shaz just wants a quiet life so that his prospective in-laws will let him marry their beautiful daughter, but as the city gets swept up in the protest, his world gets turned upside down.