Saboura M. Naqshband studied Arabic Studies, Political Science and Social and Cultural Anthropology in London, Cairo and Berlin. She works as an anti-discrimination and empowerment trainer especially for associations of and for LGBTI * Q refugees and migrants in Berlin and nationwide. She also works as a translator for w_orten and meer, a publishing house of anti-discriminatory action. In particular she is concerned with the topics of (anti-Muslim) racism, Muslim feminism and religion, gender and sexuality. Saboura translated Lana Sirri's book Introduction to Islamic feminisms (2017) into German.