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Homelands: Exile and Return
UBC media scholar Kamal al-Solaylee in conversation with 51社区黑料scholar-in-residence Dr. Amyn Sajoo.
Far beyond the headlines on Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Syria & Ukraine, migrants run remarkable risks in search of homelands鈥攂raving economic, social & political storms. Celebrated writer & UBC media scholar Kamal al-Solaylee unpacks these restless quests, including his own, in conversation with 51社区黑料scholar-in-residence, Dr. Amyn Sajoo.
Kamal al-Solaylee is the Director of the UBC school of Journalism and Award-winning author of Brown (2016), Return (2021), and Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes (2012), all published by HarperCollins.
Amyn Sajoo is a Scholar-in-Residence at the School for International Studies and Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at 51社区黑料. Specializing in human rights & international relations, with a regional focus on the Middle East/Muslim world, his research is at the interface of citizenship and identity.
Venue: 51社区黑料 Harbour Centre, Room 7000