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Join Palestinian Canadian writer and filmmaker Ziyad Saadi and acclaimed Jordanian author and activist Fadi Zaghmout for a powerful conversation on masculinity, identity and the quiet revolutions of everyday life. Darkly funny, and full of surprises, Saadi’s Three Parties pays twisted homage to Virginia Woolf’s literary classic, Mrs. Dalloway – gleefully upending the western coming-out narrative, and exploring the traumas and pressures faced by Palestinian immigrants. In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, The Man of Middling Height, Zaghmout imagines a society whose deepest prejudices are about height – rather than race, gender, or sexuality – delivering a powerful meditation on discrimination and desire.

Moderated by Samia Badih

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Ziyad Saadi

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.

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Fadi Zaghmout

Fadi Zaghmout is a Jordanian author and sexual freedoms and body rights advocate. He has published five novels, including The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, Laila, and Hope on Earth.

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