Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 25 June
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and Literature lists to life.
Each week, our hosts – authors Lili Wilkinson and Tony Birch – will interview experts intimately familiar with the texts, unearthing those hidden gems that could help your essay shine.
This week’s text is Pakistani novelist Moshin Hamid’s 2007 book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Featuring
Irfan Yusuf
Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer and commentator who writes on national security, cultural diversity and conservative politics. He has been published in Crikey, The Canberra Times, The Drum, and the Australian among others. He has appeared on The Project and RN's God Forbid!
Irfan won the 2007 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues and is the author of Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-fascist.
He is currently a PhD scholar at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation where he is researching national security and transnational identities of young Australians.