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Montreal and
Toronto Book
Launches for
Ehab Lotayef's
To Love a
Palestinian
Woman
TSAR
Publications
will be
launching Ehab
Lotayef's
collection of
poetry, To
Love a
Palestinian
Woman, at
the Librairie
Paragraphe
Bookstore in
Montreal on
Thursday April 8
at 6:30 PM, and
at the Beit
Zatoun House in
Toronto on
Friday April 16
at 6 PM, with
musical
performances by
Maryem and Ernie
Tollar.
All events are
free to
everyone! |
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For inquiries on
interviewing the
author or
requesting a
review copy,
please contact
TSAR
Publications by
email at
inquiries@tsarbooks.com |
April 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Librairie Paragraphe
Bookstore
2220 avenue McGill
College
Montreal QC H3A 3P9
(514) 845-5811
April 16, 2010 at 6
PM
Beit Zatoun House
with Maryem and Ernie
Tollar
612 Markham St.
Toronto ON M6G 2L8
(Bathurst subway stop on
Bloor line)
(647) 726-9500
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Ehab Lotayef was
born in Cairo and moved
to Montreal in 1989. He
writes in English,
classical Arabic and
colloquial Egyptian
Arabic. Besides writing
poetry, he is also a
photographer, Juno
Award-nominated
songwriter, and
playwright. His play
Crossing Gibraltar was
produced in 2005 by CBC
Radio. A fervent
activist for the end of
conflict in Gaza and the
Middle East, Ehab makes
frequent trips to
Palestine, recently was
an organizer of the Gaza
Freedom March. Ehab
works as an Information
Technology Engineer at
McGill University.
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Olive Senior
Reading In Calgary and
Winnipeg
Olive Senior
is one of Canada's most
internationally
recognized and acclaimed
writers. She will be
reading at the Calgary
Public Library on
Thursday, February 18th
at the Central Branch,
and on the following
Saturday, February 20th
at the Shawnessy Branch.
Senior will be in
Winnipeg on Sunday,
February 21st to read at
the Jamaican Association
Manitoba Inc. Building.
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Thursday, February 18,
2010
Main floor, from 11:30 PM to
1:00 PM.
Calgary Public Library,
Central Branch
616 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta
Friday, February 19,
2010
Audrey's
Books, 7:30 PM.
10702 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Saturday, February 20,
2010
From 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
Calgary Public Library,
Shawnessy Branch
333 Shawville Boulevard SE
Calgary, Alberta
Sunday February 21, 2010
Jamaican Association of Manitoba
Inc. building
Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
1098 Winnipeg Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
For
more information on the Calgary
Public Library readings, check
out
http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/
For inquiries on interviewing
Olive Senior while she is in
Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, please
email: inquiries [at] tsarbooks
[dot] com |
Author Biography
Among Senior's many awards and
honours she has won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and
F.G. Bressani Literary Prize,
was nominated for a
Governor-General’s Literary
Award, and was runner up for the
Casa de Las Americas Prize and
the Pat Lowther Award. In 2003,
she received the Norman
Washington Manley Foundation
Award for Excellence
(preservation of cultural
heritage – Jamaica). Her body of
published work includes four
books of poetry, three
collections of short stories and
several award-winning
non-fiction works on Caribbean
culture. |
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