On January 23rd 2016, over 200 people attended the “Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show” hosted by Carleton University at the S. Walter Stewart Library in Toronto.
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Carleton University would like to invite you to a special event to view materials from…
When I was three, the same age as Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy who washed…
Africa is important to me. Like my father before me, I was born in a…
This program will feature the Canadian Ismaili author’s debut novel, Where the Air Is Sweet.…
By: Debra Black Immigration Reporter for The Star Toronto, Published on Fri Nov 21 2014…
In 1972, Dictator Idi Amin expelled tens of thousands of South Asians from Uganda, many…
BY TASLEEN ADATIA, FOR POSTMEDIA NEWS Where the Air is Sweet – Tasneem Jamal –…
I had a the honour of being a part of the launch at Carleton University…
I arrived in Canada as a landed immigrant in 1975. I was six years old…
Launches are not what they used to be. Before the internet and social media, a…
Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in…
The central characters in Where the Air Is Sweet are Ismaili Muslims. Here is a…
Where the Air Is Sweet is the title of Tasneem Jamal’s first novel. It is being…