Global Issues on the Page: Ausma Zehanat Khan & Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers and Ausma Zehanat Khan

Global Issues on the Page: Ausma Zehanat Khan & Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers and Ausma Zehanat Khan

7:45pm

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Award-winning author and human rights activist Ausma Zehanat Khan examines racial tensions, police corruption and the lasting effects of violence in Blackwater Falls in this introduction to Detective Inaya Rahman. In A Line in the Sand, author and veteran Kevin Powers (whose novel The Yellow Birds won the PEN/Hemingway Award) takes readers to Norvolk, Virginia where a lonely veteran’s gruesome discovery throws him into the face of danger and the trouble he thought he left behind in Iraq. Don’t miss this chance to hear from these two talented and important voices as they discuss their latest works and how crime fiction can be used to explore global issues.

Moderator: Nathan Maharaj

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 7:45pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre’s main building
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Please note, the time for this event has changed. It will now take place at 7:45pm ET in the Brigantine Room.

Conversation

Award-winning author and human rights activist Ausma Zehanat Khan examines racial tensions, police corruption and the lasting effects of violence in Blackwater Falls in this introduction to Detective Inaya Rahman. In A Line in the Sand, author and veteran Kevin Powers (whose novel The Yellow Birds won the PEN/Hemingway Award) takes readers to Norvolk, Virginia where a lonely veteran’s gruesome discovery throws him into the face of danger and the trouble he thought he left behind in Iraq. Don’t miss this chance to hear from these two talented and important voices as they discuss their latest works and how crime fiction can be used to explore global issues.

Moderator: Nathan Maharaj

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 4 at 7:45pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre’s main building
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Please note, the time for this event has changed. It will now take place at 7:45pm ET in the Brigantine Room.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.

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Ausma Zehanat Khan
Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes. She is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, including The Unquiet Dead, as well as the critically acclaimed Khorasan Archives fantasy series. Her new crime series starring Detective Inaya Rahman debuted with Blackwater Falls, soon to be followed by Blood Betrayal. Khan is also a contributor to the anthologies Private Investigations, Sword Stone Table and The Perfect Crime. A British-born Canadian, Khan now lives in the United States with her husband.

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7:45pm

Sunday, June 4

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