# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 19 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 19 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: The second stop in Bobuq Sayed’s London book tour for their debut novel, No God but Us. Bobuq will be joined in conversation by Aisha Mirza.About this EventJoin us at the second London launch of , the debut novel by Bobuq Sayed. Bobuq will be joined in conversation by Aisha Mirza.‘Compassionate without veering into sentimentality, the novel explores migration, identity and chosen family with quiet emotional precision, asking what it truly means to build a home from exile.’ — Service95When Delbar’s double life is outed to his mother, he flees his Afghan American community and takes refuge with his aunt in Istanbul. There he meets another Afghan, Mansur, who has made his own sacrifices to leave his family in Iran and migrate to Turkey.At an NGO supporting queer and trans refugees, Delbar and Mansur find comfort in each other and the company of new friends. But Turkish state repression is escalating, and as their pathways to security diverge, the fault lines between them become impossible to ignore.Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker whose writing explores themes of migration, Islam and queer sexuality. They are the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook of essays, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia. A 2022–23 Steinbeck fellow at San José State University, a Lambda Literary scholar, and an award-winning James A. Michener fellow in the University of Miami’s MFA programme in creative writing, Bobuq lives in Brooklyn, New York.Aisha Mirza is a writer, musician, artist and community organiser working across madness, transness and other ecologies of survival and perverse pleasure. They are the founding director of misery (@miseryparty), a mental health arts organisation by and for lived experience queer/trans global majority peers. They live on the River Lea, on a boat, with their tiny dog, Jihad. Access: Please cancel your ticket if you feel unwell, have flu symptoms or any other contagious illness. Mask-wearing is encouraged. This is to help look after and protect each other, especially vulnerable members of our community.If you have an access question or need, please get in touch with us at events [at] hajarpress [dot] com. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-no-god-but-us-bobuq-sayed-with-aisha-mirza/100001999373528044 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Music, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Reference Point - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Reference Point - **lat**: 51.5118951 - **long**: -0.1142272 - **full address**: Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/fb3cec4e39f04577ea5a66a122185c3c53dfeb590a365056576ab2f08a7349d7-rimg-w1200-h600-dc080838-gmir.jpg?v=1789505406 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza being held? - **A:** Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza takes place on Mon, 19 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 19 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza? - **A:** Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza is organized by Hajar Press. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Book Launch — No God but Us: Bobuq Sayed with Aisha Mirza", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/fb3cec4e39f04577ea5a66a122185c3c53dfeb590a365056576ab2f08a7349d7-rimg-w1200-h600-dc080838-gmir.jpg?v=1789505406", "startDate": "2026-10-19T19:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-10-19T20:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/book-launch-no-god-but-us-bobuq-sayed-with-aisha-mirza/100001999373528044", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Reference Point", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2 Arundel Street", "postalCode": "WC2R 3DA", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5118951", "longitude": "-0.1142272" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "The second stop in Bobuq Sayed’s London book tour for their debut novel, No God but Us. 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