Book Launch: Tales of the Mountains and the Sea
Schedule
Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8 | Calgary, AB
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Join us for the launch of Dania Idriss' debut story collection, Tales of the Mountains and the Sea. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dania Idriss (she/her) is a Lebanese-Canadian author and a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Her writing focuses on global literatures, particularly Arabic speculative fiction. Her work explores Arab-futurity outside of the forever-wars that have come to define the Middle East. She gratefully lives and works on the traditional territory of Treaty 7, where she spends most of her time hiding indoors with her bunny, Arlo.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Genre-bending and tinged with myth and folklore, these haunting debut stories centre young women at significant points in Lebanese history. A teenage girl mourns the death of her grandmother, only to feel her grandmother’s spirit possessing her in a way that seems malicious. A family, struggling to make ends meet, receives an unexpected visitor, who has an awful proposal that may be impossible to refuse. A young girl worries that her brother is falling in with the wrong crowd, as civil war breaks out on the streets around them. The five stories in Tales of the Mountains and the Sea trace pivotal movements in modern Lebanese history and the effects they have on women. As she centres women and the choices that they make, Dania Idriss deftly weaves together history and folktales in a way that is both evocative and chilling. Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is a startling and astonishing debut that navigates the intricate nuances of human experience, cultural identity, family history, and the lasting impacts of war.
JOINED BY:
Omar Ramadan (he/him) is a Lebanese Canadian writer. He is the author of the poetry book This Sweet Rupture published by UAlberta Press, and the chapbooks "Sun Dogs" and "Sesame Love." His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, CV2, and The Polyglot. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary.
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