He is an active member of Scottish PEN and Artists in Exile Glasgow, and has taken part in many poetry readings throughout Scotland including the Edinburgh Book Festival, and writing and translation workshops; he has had his first collection, Beyond All Measure, published by Survivors Press. He has collaborated with poet Tessa Ransford, on a two-way translation project for a book, A Rug of a Thousand Colours, with poems inspired by the Five Pillars of Islam, to be published by Luath Press in September. His poem in this issue of New Writing, 'Siyam' or 'Fasting', translated in collaboration with Tessa, will appear in this book.