This is Also A Love Story: Sally Hayden in Conversation with Kojo Koram

We live in an era defined by crisis – whether it be war and displacement, or climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality. Acclaimed international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she’s witnessed the love and care of everyday people.

In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Hayden asks us: what if news was recounted through the prism of the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how connection, self-sacrifice and love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and – as a result – to question what might be needed to create a better world.

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist, photographer and author. She is an international correspondent for the Irish Times and has reported all over the world for an array of outlets, including CNN International, TIME, the BBC, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award, the Michel Déon Prize, the Terzani Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, among others. She has twice been named overall ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Irish Journalism Awards – in 2023 and 2025. In 2022, she won the International Award at Irish Tatler’s Women of the Year Awards. She is also an adjunct professor at the UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Kojo Koram is a Professor of Law, author and investigative journalist. This year he co-founded a new global research centre at Loughborough University which will examine how drug markets are changing. The Transnational Research Centre on Emerging Drug Markets will bringing together researchers, community organisations and policymakers from across the Global North and South. Kojo Koram previously taught Law at Birkbeck University.

This event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Tickets: £10 General Admission / £8 Foyalty Member / £22 Book and Ticket (includes a copy of This is Also a Love Story RRP £20)
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*

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