Event Details

What draws us back to our origins? How do we explain this compelling desire to understand where we come from and return to a culture, with its attendant values and perspectives that may be both alien yet fundamental to us?

Kamal Al-Solaylee is a Canadian journalist and award-winning author of three books of non-fiction: Intolerable (2012); Brown (2016); and Return (2021). He holds a PhD in English from Nottingham University and is the director of the School of Journalism, Writing and Media at the University of Columbia in Vancouver.

Registration Fee: $35*.
*includes ticket, hors d'oeuvres and free flow wine/drinks

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