Join us at Fremantle Library to celebrate the launch of two books by Mohammed Massoud Morsi through UWA Press: The Hair of the Pigeon and The Palace of Angels.
For this event, we will hear a conversation between the author and Sisonke Msimang.
Mohammed Massoud Morsi is an Egyptian-Danish-Australian photographer, journalist and writer. His work has been published in all three of his traditional languages. Morsi discovered journalism made people yesterday’s news and turned to writing novels instead. He has a talent for reaching to the heart of existence in a complex world and looks to important questions, finding that which is quintessentially human within much broader struggles. His work is enriched by his photographer’s eye for detail and a passion for speaking out for those suppressed, challenging and breaking common narratives all at once.
Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela: A biography of survival. She is a South African writer whose work is focused on race, gender and democracy. She has written for a range of international publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and Al Jazeera. She now lives in Perth, Australia, where she is head of oral storytelling at the Centre for Stories.
Copies of the books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments provided.
