Some of you may not know this, but the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author S. K. Ali is my sister. And yes, I’m a proud brother!
She’ll be speaking at the Silk Road Literary Festival on Saturday, October 17, at Meridian Arts Centre in Toronto. It’s a wonderful lineup:
📚 3 p.m. — S. K. Ali: Muslims in fiction and Golden Flight.
🌎 4:30 p.m. — Dr. Saeed Khan: Muslim Americans and the changing American political landscape.
🎬 6 p.m. — Farah Nabulsi: Cinema, Palestinian representation and telling our own stories.
📖 7:30 p.m. — Omar El Akkad: Witnessing and our responsibility.
A special mention of Omar’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This—a powerful reckoning with Gaza, Western complicity and the distance between our professed values and our actions. A book whose title alone demands that we examine where we stand today.
If you’re in the Toronto area, please go support these voices and be part of these conversations. Share the posters and help spread the word!