Women and Gender Studies InstituteWomen and Gender Studies Institute
With Artist and Writer Leila Abdelrazaq author of Baddawi
March 28, 2024 | 3:00pm – 5:00pm
D.G. Ivey Library, New College 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto
Refreshments will be served
With Panel discussants: Dr. Dina Georgis, WGSI; Dr. Rania Salem, Sociology, UTSC; Mariam El-Rayes, UTSG undergraduate student; Dr. Wafaa Hasan, WGSI We are thrilled to welcome Leila Abdelrazaq who will be joining us to discuss her past and contemporary work. Her graphic novel, Baddawi, tells the story of a young boy named Ahmed, raised in a refugee camp in Northern Lebanon, with thousands of others expelled from Palestine in 1948.
About the Author: Leila Abdelrazaq (b. 1992, Chicago) is Palestinian author and artist. Her debut graphic novel, Baddawi (Just World Books 2015) was shortlisted for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards and has been translated into three languages. Since then, she has created a number of other zines, comics, and writings. She has published, exhibited work, and given workshops around the world. Leila’s creative work primarily explores issues related to diaspora, refugeehood, history, memory, and borders. She earned her MA in Modern Middle Eastern & North African Studies from the University of Michigan in 2020, where her research focused on Palestinian futurist art and post-national imaginaries.
Hosted by the Women & Gender Studies Institute, Hearing Palestine, the D.G. Ivey Library at New College, and the generous librarianship of Jeff Newman. The annual lecture corresponds to WGS380, Feminist Graphic Novels, taught this year by Professor Judith Taylor at the WGSI.