Azmina Kassam: “The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth”

Source: SFU Woodward’s – Simon Fraser University

Azmina Kassam is a Canadian Ismaili Muslim. Born In Nairobi, Kenya. She immigrated to Canada in 1982. Kassam holds a certificate in Creative Writing from Simon Fraser University. She believes that writing has offered her a means to understand and decode information as well as being a powerful tool to communicate ideas, thoughts and stories.

Join us for an enlightening evening of personal stories and reflections shared by Canadian Muslim women. This dialogue will reveal the diversity of the writers featured in this anthology and highlight varying perspectives that exist in the Muslim Diaspora.

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