Past Events

Nautilus Book Award’s 8 week online A Good Country Bookclub

June-July of 2024

AWP Annual Writers’ Conference

February 10, 2024

“The Facts Behind Memoir: How Research Expands the Vision and Market for Stories” https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview

Public Storytelling Performance “Social Justice Storytime”

7PM CST Thursday, February 8, 2024, BADSEED 1909 McGee St, Kansas City, MO 64108

Followed by a book signing and meet up at Mission St. Tacos on 18th Street

Virtual Book Event, “A Good Country: Home, Belonging, Identity and Wellness”

January 24, 2024 7 PM EST

With Muslim Wellness Foundation founder Dr. Kameela Oseguera

Muslim Women’s Book Club

Panelist, December 9, 2023 at 7 PM

With

Amaney Jamal, Of Empires and Citizens: Pro American Democracy or No Democracy at All? 

Sahar Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Freedom

Sofia Ali Khan, A Good Country:  My Life in Twelve Towns and a Devastating  Battle for a White America

Sylvia Chan Malik, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Muslim Women of Color in American Islam

Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Annual Conference

Education Culture Wars Speaker with Linda K. Wertheimer, Rutgers University, Sunday November 17, 2023 at 2 PM

New state laws as well as attacks on diversity training efforts in education are hampering teachers' ability to talk about racism, implicit bias, gender and sexual identity, and how to respect and make space for diversity. These culture wars rippling throughout America are likely to foment more anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish bigotry.  Several states have passed so-called religious liberty laws, prompted by a Christian nationalist movement that already is celebrating a 2022 Supreme Court ruling which may make it easier to have more prayer - namely, Christian prayer - in public schools. Other topics covered in this workshop will include book bans and the power of teaching about world religions to combat religious bigotry. https://sosspeace.org/2023-eastcoast-conference/

National Consumer Law Center Conference

Conference Keynote Speaker and Conference Bookclub Author, Philadelphia, PA, June 6, 2023

Rarely does an invitation offer the opportunity to read your own work in a new light. Honored to be speaking to the NCLC Annual Mortgage Conference about why every social justice advocate should understand the unbroken legacy of dispossession of Black and Brown people in America. Sold out! This appearance was made possible by a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Free Library of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 2023

I'll be in conversation with Inaara Shiraz, writer and editor as well as fellow Sindhi. She's fantastic and we're going to have an excellent time. This appearance was made possible by a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

JAMPilgrimages

Little Rock, AR, May 6, 2023

Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages runs annual conferences at one or more of the 10 Japanese Internment sites around the country. In the Little Rock chapter of A Good Country, I tell the stories of families interned at Arkansas' two camps, Jerome and Rohwer, and contextualize these in the broader story of the persistent forced migrations of Brown and Black people in America.

Burlington Public Library

Central Branch, Burlington Ontario, March 13, 2023

I'm so excited to be offering this in conjunction with an Ontario public library!

Northeastern University School of Law Alumni Online Bookclub

Online, Boston, MA, February 1, 2023

The activist, lawyer and poet Sunu Chandi (forthcoming book My Dear Comrades) will be interviewed by Rishi Reddi (author of Passage West and Karma and Other Stories) and I'll be interviewed by the charming and brilliant Professor Hemanth Gundavaram.

Facing Race Conference/Racial Justice Reads

Pheonix Convention Center, Pheonix, AZ, November 18, 2022

Appearing with the authors Deepa Iyer and Kung Li Sun.

Sisterhood of Salam Shalom

Goldey Beacom College. Wilmington, DE, November 13, 2022

Keynote Speaker for Interfaith Conference of Jewish and Muslim Women

New College of Florida

Sainer Pavillion, Sarasota, Florida, November 9, 2022

A Good Country: An Exploration of Memory and History's Role in Justice

Wachusset Area Social Justice Alliance Book Club

A Public Virtual Event, Wachussets, MA, October 16, 2022

Fall for the Book

GMU Johnson Center 3rd Floor, Fairfax, VA, October 13, 2022

Indianapolis Book Club

Online, Indianapolis Indiana, October 7, 2022

Joe's Pub, Seriously Entertaining

Public Theater in Manhattan, New York, New York, October 4, 2022

Video of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdXOuR-7S0

A Good Country Launch! Random House Virtual Event

Online, Philadelphia, PA, July 6, 2022

Cosponsored by AFSC, CAIR-PA, The Interfaith Center at Swarthmore College, Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities at Haverford College.