Upcoming Events
Virtual Book Event, “A Good Country: Home, Belonging, Identity and Wellness,” with Muslim Wellness Foundation founder Dr. Kameela Oseguera, January 24, 2024 7 PM EST.
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.
AWP Annual Writers’ Conference, “The Facts Behind Memoir: How Research Expands the Vision and Market for Stories,” February 10, 2024. https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview
Nautilus Book Award hosts an 8 week online A Good Country bookclub in early Spring of 2024. Read along with me and get access to all of the stories and content that informed the book.
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Past Events
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.