Vancouver Book Launch for Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Notional Space, 1523 E Pender St., Vancouver, BC | Vancouver, BC

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Book*hug Press invites you to the Vancouver launch of Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home! Hosted by co-editors Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem. Featuring contributors Esmeralda Cabral, Alison Tedford, Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, Nadine Araksi, Krista Eide, and Seema Dhawan.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 pm PT
Notional Space, 1523 E Pender St., Vancouver, BC
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase on site from Book Warehouse, and, of course, the authors will be signing!
Bios:
TASLIM JAFFER is a writer, editor, and writing instructor with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College. Her bylines include Maclean’s, Asparagus, WestCoast Families, CBC British Columbia, Peace Arch News, Unearth Women, and more. She is the winner of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Contest from the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society and Humber Literary Review, and recipient of a 2021 Silver Canadian Online Publishing Award. Jaffer has been a keynote speaker on diversity and interfaith topics on a variety of stages and teaches creative nonfiction and expressive writing in community and rehabilitative settings. She is working on a debut collection of literary essays and lives in Surrey, B.C. with her husband and three children.
OMAR MOUALLEM is an author, filmmaker, and educator. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. His book How Muslims Shaped the Americas won the 2022 Wilfred Eggelston Nonfiction Award and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2021. His documentary The Lebanese Burger Mafia, which documents the unlikely link between fast-food and Lebanese immigrants, won the 2023 Audience Choice for Best Doc at Northwest International Documentary Festival. He also teaches creative nonfiction at the University of King’s College and is the “fake dean” of Pandemic University School of Writing, a virtual school he founded in support of writers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. He lives in Edmonton.
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