Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Storytelling

What does it mean to tell a story that might otherwise be erased? Join us for an engaged dialogue with journalist and UBC Arts alumna Nilo Tabrizy, whose acclaimed new book For the Sun After Long Nights (Pantheon / Penguin Random House Canada, co-authored with Fatemeh Jamalpour) chronicles Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom uprising. In conversation with Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity, Neda Maghbouleh (UBC Sociology), Tabrizy will reflect on the intersections of journalism and scholarship, the power of friendship and feminism, and the enduring role of art and memory in movements for change. A reception will follow the event. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from UBC Bookstore in October. Please feel free to bring your copy of the book to be signed.

Photograph by Emily Rhyne.