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Kamal Al-Solaylee

Kamal Al-Solaylee (@KamalAlSolaylee) is the author of Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. He is Director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.
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Society

The Right of Return: Why We Want to Come Home

September 7, 2021September 10, 2021 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Researchers have long understood why people leave their homelands. But what happens when they decide to go back?

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April 2018 / World

Unwelcome to Canada

March 26, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

We opened our homes and hearts to those fleeing war in Syria. But we aren’t doing the same for people in Yemen

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Unity from tragedy

November 9, 2017November 26, 2019 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

After a violent exchange, he decided to find belonging in the LGBTQ community. It wasn’t until recently that he felt the two were no longer contradictory

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Photograph by Nik Mirus
Society

The Refugee ‘Welcome Kit’ Nods to a Kinder Canada—and a Harsher World

January 31, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Parkas, art, and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms embody an aspirational vision for our country

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March 2016 / Society

Suffering’s Second Act

February 16, 2016March 31, 2020 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

Feel-good stories about new refugees mask the struggles that lie ahead

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The Art of Learning

October 10, 2012October 16, 2019 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

From the Walrus Talks the Art of the City (Toronto 2012)

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September 2011

Dead White Guys

September 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

European classics still dominate Canadian theatres

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June 2011 / World

Violent Revolution

June 12, 2011October 6, 2018 - by Kamal Al-Solaylee

What will the ouster of Yemen’s long-ruling dictator mean for Yemenis?

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