Power to the Writers
with Kamal Al-Solaylee and Faisal Mohyuddin
In this conversation that demands your attention, Kamal Al-Solaylee and Faisal Mohyuddin – two authors known for their audacious exploration of identity, culture, and form – dissect the art of pushing boundaries and writing the truth in their literary works at a time of momentous social, cultural and political change.
Course Information
Format: Panel Discussion
Duration: 1 hr
Recommended For: General Audience
Date
25 July, Fri
7.30pm to 8.30pm
Venue
In-Person
Play Den (Level 2)
The Arts House
1 Old Parliament Lane
Singapore 179429
Please Note
Ticketing and Registration
This programme is free with registration.
- Doors open at 7.00pm
- Seating is first come first served.
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About The Speakers
About Kamal Al-Solaylee
Vancouver-based Kamal Al-Solaylee is the author of the bestseller Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, winner of the 2013 Toronto Book Award and a finalist for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s Canada Reads and for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and was finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for Nonfiction. His third book of nonfiction, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From, was published in 2021 and was named Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail and CBC Books. His nonfiction books mix personal narrative with geopolitics and field reporting.
About Faisal Mohyuddin
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024) and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018), and of the poetry chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). He teaches high school English in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University. He is also a visual artist.