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Podcast Episode 5
12:00pm

Where The Air Is Sweet

With Tasneem Jamal
Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji

Where The Air Is Sweet

With Tasneem Jamal
Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji
9
Wednesday
Nov
2022
12:00pm
Tasneem Jamal

We present the second of three special episodes hosted by York University’s Zulfikar Hirji and presented in collaboration with Carleton University’s Beyond Resettlement Conference.

 

Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the novel Where the Air Is Sweet, she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel.

 

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