Credit to Author: Rebeca Kuropatwa| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:06:04 +0000
Born in Iran shortly after the revolution in 1981, Elle AyoubZadeh moved with her parents to Dubai and attended an American school until she was 13. They then moved to New Zealand where AyoubZadeh finished high school and attended university, studying business and specializing in luxury marketing. “I always had this desire to see the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 03:52:34 +0000
Sharada Eswar refers to herself as an inter-disciplinary artist with roots in India. Writer, storyteller, singer and arts educator, her work spans across multiple disciplines and art forms. A graduate in Literature Studies, she has trained to be a writer and a storyteller and has also immersed herself in several styles of music including Indian […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:42:28 +0000
Though life in Mumbai was comfortable, Indian-born Dweep Mehta’s daily commute to work — the traffic, the crowded trains and the endless chain of buses — had started to take a toll on his health. Reluctant to leave family and friends behind but desperate for “a peaceful life,” he took a leap of faith and […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Author| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:02:58 +0000
[By Zhenzhen Gu] I have always had a passion for writing. When I was young, my mother encouraged me. So did my junior high teacher. When my first piece appeared in China Daily (overseas edition), I was thrilled, even though it was just the size of tofu. After that, I was hungry for more. I experienced the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:47:51 +0000
Logathasan “Das” Tharmathurai is a man who finds his way. Das nearly failed his grade 12 English literature class and had never thought of becoming a writer. But he decided he had to become one if he wanted to share his story. In July 2019, over three decades after leaving Sri Lanka, Das published The […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:02:01 +0000
Novelist and playwright Anosh Irani comes from a family of Iranian descent in Mumbai, India, and moved to Vancouver in 1998 as a student to pursue his Master’s degree in Creative Writing. He has published critically acclaimed and award-winning novels including: The Cripple and His Talismans, The Song of Kahunsha, Dahanu Road and The Parcel. His plays […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:08:32 +0000
My name is Patricia Marie-Antoinette Mayaza Mwilu Kumbakisaka, and I am a proud Canadian-Congolese-Romanian. How often do you see Romanians with last names such as ‘Kumbakisaka’? You are probably used to see last names like ‘Florescu’ or ‘Stefanescu’. People call me the ‘citizen of the world’, ‘global citizen’ or the ‘United Nations’. When you first hear […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Nazreena Anwar-Travas| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:39:54 +0000
Samiya initially came to Canada as a student to study biomedical engineering and returned to India in 2010. Little did she know that three years later, she would return to Canada again — but as a newly married woman with an eight month-old baby. “Everyone felt that since I have already been in Canada, things […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Vivien| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:04:40 +0000
Syrian Canadian Foundation Executive Director Bayan Khatib knows what it’s like to feel utterly lost. When Khatib was a baby, her father, a Syrian political prisoner, escaped and fled to the US with her mother, leaving her behind with grandparents. By the time they reclaimed her, the couple had three more children. Khatib’s brother, jealous […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:36:02 +0000
Vera Dodic, manager, Toronto Newcomer Office, asks newcomers to call the city ‘home’. Vera Dodic grew up never imagining that she would live anywhere but in Belgrade, the city where she was born in former Yugoslavia. Having worked with refugees and internally displaced people back home, She experienced first-hand the profound challenges of establishing herself […]
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