2000 - 2001

2000
> Poetry published in Atoms of Delight (Morning Star Publishers)

> Mock proposal for a Scottish Parliament published in Without Day (Morning Star Publishers)

> Guest Editor on Nomad magazine

> Worked with actor and movement specialist Faroque Khan on the Soul Food Theatre Project, which resulted in a performance at the Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow

> Lectured on the theme of Infinite Diversity in New Scottish Writing at the annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies at Strathclyde University

> Work was exhibited, together with a filmed interview, at the Connecting Cultures exhibition in Glasgow's newly-opened Lighthouse Gallery

> Portrait of Saadi, done by the renowned artist, Chila Kumari Burman, exhibited in the Wish I Was Here exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and around Scotland in the subsequent travelling exhibition. Interview and reading of his work appeared on CD which accompanied the book, Wish I Was Here in which his poetry appeared

> Appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

> Pollokshields Writers' Group was featured in the Scotsman newspaper

> Appeared and read at the multi-lingual celebration of Robert Burns's poetry, to celebrate the acquisition by Glasgow's Mitchell Library of the original manuscript of Auld Lang Syne

> Was chosen to go on BBC Scotland's scriptwriting training course, Migrations

> Was featured in The List magazine

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2001
January
> Saadi's article, on new Glasgow writing, appeared in Product magazine

> Interviewed on BBC TV's Eorpa program

Feburary
> Saadi's poem, Glass Songs, was commissioned for the book, Back To The Light (Mariscat Press and Glasgow City Council)

April
> The Burning Mirror, a collection of 20 short stories, was published by Polygon Books, Edinburgh.

June
> Appeared with Alasdair Gray, Dilys Rose and Angus Calder at the first ever Orkney Skald Writers' Festival.

August
> Script Consultant on Tartan Short film, Manji (writer-director, Rene Mohandas)

> Three well-received appearances at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

October
> Melvyn Bragg and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown recorded a review of The Burning Mirror for all British Airways aircraft, worldwide.

> Saadi received Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary.

November
> Appeared at Glasgow's SECC (Equal Futures Conference)

> The Burning Mirror short-listed for The Saltire First Book Prize. One of the judges called it "a ground-breaking and brilliant work, not only for Scottish literature, but for UK literature too."

December
> ‘Bandanna’ appeared in ‘The Barcelona Review’, Spanish-based English/Spanish language web magazine.

December 2001 - October 2002
> Appeared several times on BBC Radio Scotland’s Colin MacKay Show, discussing subjects as varied as Jewish eruvs, lesbian Artificial Insemination websites, the situation in Zimbabwe, Children’s TV advertising, the role of marketing in religion and the dumbing-down of the media, particularly in relation to the reporting of high-profile murder.

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