Where The Air Is Sweet

With Tasneem Jamal

Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji Podcast Fiction

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Wednesday

Nov , 2022

12:00pm

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Tasneem Jamal

This podcast is presented in conjunction with the Beyond Resettlement conference hosted by Carleton University (November 14-16, 2022).

We present the second of three special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference.

Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the novel Where the Air Is Sweet, she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel.

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Tasneem Jamal

Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the novel Where the Air Is Sweet, she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel. When not writing, Tasneem serves as Communications Officer at Project Ploughshares, a Waterloo-based peace research institute. She lives in Kitchener.