By: Debra Black Immigration Reporter for The Star Toronto, Published on Fri Nov 21 2014
Novelist and journalist Tasneem Jamal grew up in Kitchener after she and her family were expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin in 1972. They came to Canada in 1975 when she was 6 years old.
In total, about 80,000 people of South Asian origin were expelled from Uganda. Between 6,000 and 8,000 Ismailis came to Canada in that first wave; today, more than 100,000 Ismailis live in Canada.
Jamal, 45, recently published a novel — Where the Air is Sweet — about that expulsion from Uganda, tracing the story of an Indian man who moved to Africa to seek a better life, only to have his world totally shattered.
Jamal will be talking about the experiences of inclusion and exclusion in a conversation at the Ismaili Centre on Sunday.
More Q&A: Novelist Tasneem Jamal on Canada’s welcome to Ismailis from Uganda | Toronto Star.
Earlier related on author Tasneem Jamal at Ismailimail Archives:
- Tasneem Jamal’s debut novel “Where the Air is Sweet” to be released in May, 2014
- The Ismailis | Tasneem Jamal
- Tasneem Jamal’s Novel ‘Where The Air Is Sweet’ has been released
- Tasneem Jamal’s literary debut
- Tasneem Jamal: What Bapa taught me about starting over in a new country – The Globe and Mail
- Carleton University Ottawa launches the Uganda Collection, via Tasneem Jamal
- Book Review: Where the Air is Sweet unveils little-known story of Ugandan expulsion
- The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Tasneem Jamal: Uganda’s Asian Exiles
- Q&A: Novelist Tasneem Jamal on Canada’s welcome to Ismailis from Uganda | Toronto Star
- Event – November 23 | Ismaili Centre, Toronto: Author Tasneem Jamal in Conversation with TV Host Omar Sachedina
- What happens when travelling across the globe doesn’t pay off | Tasneem Jamal
- Tasneem Jamal: When I was 3, the same age as Alan Kurdi, I became a refugee
- Carleton University’s Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show
- Carleton University’s Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show
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