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Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler ...

Searching for Happy Valley

By (author) Jane Marshall
Categories: Travel and holiday

A global quest to comprehend the meaning of “Happy Valley” on three continents and how these mountain communities continue to survive in a world that constantly challenges the very notion of “happiness.” ...

One More Mountain

It’s 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.

In Kabul, 15-year-old ...

Under the Nakba Tree

Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He grew up in Edmonton, Alberta as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. ...

Voyages en Afghani

By (author) Guillaume Lavallée
Categories: Middle Eastern history
Series: Essai

En janvier 2017, un jeune homme tue six hommes priant à la grande mosquée de Québec. Journaliste au Moyen-Orient, l’auteur Guillaume Lavallée s’interroge sur les raisons et origines de cette haine. ...

Rien de beau sur la guerre

Le 30 avril 1975, jour de la chute de Saïgon, Maï Nguyen fuit le Vietnam avec sa mère et ses sept frères. Elle a dix ans. Dans Rien de beau sur la guerre, elle refait le chemin parcouru de son enfance ...

Canadian Rajah

By (author) Dave Carley
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Canadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

Tireur embusqué

Un adolescent rescapé de la guerre en Syrie vit son premier hiver à Montréal. Après s’être violemment battu à l’école, il doit suivre une psychothérapie. S’étant lié d’amitié avec Kevin, ...