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Join us for a conversation with Ziyad Saadi, Zeina Sleiman and Jemimah Wei, three authors whose latest works explore the intricacies of family. Through readings and conversation, these writers bring to light the contradictions that define family life—love and silence, closeness and distance, fragility and resilience. Their stories remind us how family, in all its complexity, continues to shape who we are.
Moderated by Stacy Lee Kong
Ziyad Saadi is a Palestinian Canadian writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. He is a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist and winner of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau pilot writing competition.
Credit Melissa Toh
Zeina Sleiman is a Palestinian Canadian writer based out of Edmonton. In 2025, her short story, My Father's Soil was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and she was listed among 22 Canadian writers to watch.
Jemimah Wei is the author of The Original Daughter, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and an IndieNext pick. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honouree, William Van Dyke Short Story Prize winner, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P.
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Dates & Times
Sun, Nov 2
1:00pm
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2:00pmA book signing will follow this event
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This is a FREE event
