Face-to-Face:
Different Visions, CommonVoices (1,646 words)
'Face to Face' was a speech given by Saadi at the opening ceremony of the multicultural Pollokshields Writers' Group's text-image exhibition, 'Face-to-Face: Different Visions, Common Voices' in June 2000.

Three Triggers, Three Processes (3,482 words)
Talk given to the ‘Gender, Fictions, Power’ Conference, University of Strathclyde, 2003

infinite diversity in new scottish writing (7,500 words)
This is the full version of a lecture given at the annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, in May 2000. It's also on their website.

intergenerational conference (2,081 words)
March Glasgow 2006

PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award 2005 for Psychoraag (615 words)
Speech delivered on accepting the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award in California
To hear the speech, please click on the link below:
http://www.sarmed.netfirms.com/suhayl/suhayl_penSpeech.mp3

If you wish to read the speech, click here

robert burns tribute (547 words)
The Robert Burns tribute was rendered at 'Re-acquaintance', a celebration to mark the acquisition, by the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, of the original manuscript of 'Auld Land Syne'.

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