The India-based journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel, “Life in the Clock Tower Valley,” delivers a unique look into Kashmir, where normal, day-to-day life unfolds amid unrest and uncertainty.
View More ‘Life in the Clock Tower Valley’ Offers Intimate View of Life in Kashmir
Berhane’s last interview before his death was with New Canadian Media. The 51-year-old journalist died after contracting COVID-19.
View More Remembering Aaron Berhane, Champion for Refugee Journalists
Farzana Doctor, author of “Seven,” makes sure that the characters in her stories are psychologically informed. “There is so much misinformation out there about how people experience and remember trauma. I want to dispel that,” she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.
View More Author Farzana Doctor On Trauma, Belonging and Female Genital Mutilation
“We have to reveal the truth. We have to tell things as they are. If not, then they repeat. We cannot sugarcoat things.” — Alison Clarke, author of Phillis.
View More From Slavery to Juneteenth: Why Black History Matters
Le nouveau livre de Monique Polak propose 21 recettes pour tisser des liens entre les cultures et les histoires des immigrants et des autochtones grâce au pouvoir de la nourriture.
View More Tisser des liens par la nourriture
The second annual Toronto Arab Film Festival builds on the success of the inaugural edition put together last year just as world woke up to the global pandemic. NCM reporter Saoussane Bourtata reviews the TAFF’s second edition that was staged recently.
View More The Arab World Through Cinema
Monique Polak’s new recipe book features 19 recipes from Quebec’s first-generation immigrants and First Nations communities as a way to bridge various cultures and histories together through food.
View More Connections Forged with Food
Two Kurdish Canadian artists, writer Ava Homa and musician Kazım Boran, share their thoughts on the persecution of Kurds as two fellow artists in Turkey await trial for singing in their mother tongue.
View More Kurdish Canadian Artists React to the Criminalization of Art in Turkey
Canadian restaurateurs of Indian origin are joining the 1 Billion Breaths campaign to help provide those in the sub-continent clean oxygen through the COVID-19 pandemic – one plate at a time.
View More On the Menu: 1 Billion Breaths for India
The Toronto-based Syrian cartoonist Mwafaq Katt spoke to NCM’s Arzu Yildiz about his experience as an artist, why in Syria his drawings were considered a crime, and why he decided to come to Canada.
View More ‘I Came to Canada for My Freedom’: Syrian Cartoonist Mwafaq Katt