@omarsachedina Really looking forward to your doc, Omar! Congrats. My fam is from Tanzania and Kenya, but the crisis in Uganda led to us, like so many, leaving.
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anar ali
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anar ali
@anarali
writer/screenwriter. Author of Night of Power, Baby Khakis Wings. (Penguin Random House) Writer on Transplant (CTV/ NBC)
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Şubat 2009
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50 years ago, my mom was expelled from the country where she was born.
So were tens of thousands of other Asians in Uganda.
This summer, she returned to her village for the first time. My sister and I were there with her.
EXPELLED: My Roots in Uganda airs Nov 4 at 9 pm on CTV
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The hugest of congratulations to our friends @samikhanfilm @anarali #HamzaHaq and all the team for the recognition of your great work on this series! #transplant @TransplantCTV
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Congratulations to Transplant, who took home FOUR awards at this year's Canadian Screen Awards including: 🏆 Best Drama Series 🏆 Best Lead Actor, Drama Series for Hamza Haq 🏆 Best Direction, Drama Series 🏆 Best Writing, Drama Series #CdnScreenAwards
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@RegentParkFilm is a fave film festival in the city. The fest and this panel
goes live at 6pm today. #Transplant #RRFF2020
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.@CTV and HireBIPOC present 'CTV's #Transplant: How It Started and What's Next' as part of #RPFF2020 featuring panelists Hamza Haq, Sami Khan, Anar Ali, Tara Woodbury and panel moderator Adnan Khan. Visit @RegentParkFilm online at RegentParkFilmFestival.com for more.
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So excited to be part of this with brilliant poet and interviewer, @catgrahampoet
City of Toronto Culture@culture_to
Tonight at 7pm, By The Lake Book Club presents an intimate and interactive peek behind the pages of @anarali's newest book, Night of Power. Join @catgrahampoet as she interviews the author in this special virtual presentation. Learn more at toronto.ca/assemblyhall/.
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@josephnkay @NBCTransplant Thanks @josephnkay for giving me a chance to work in my first room and earn my first credit! Congrats right back at you for this episode and on all of Transplant’s successes!!
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One of my favourite episodes of @NBCTransplant airing tonight at 10/9pm on NBC. And congrats to @anarali on her first tv writing credit!
Transplant@NBCTransplant
When you're far from home, this is the team that fights for you. #Transplant
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Check out @farzanadoctor brilliant, moving, and essential new book, Seven.
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@Lynn_Coady Lynn, I have my Dads car right now. Happy to pick stuff up and drop off at your door. ( email or message— I may miss it here)
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One of my fave characters on Transplant ( maybe because she reminds me of my nieces :), Bash’s little sister, Amira, played by the amazing @sirena.gulamgaus.
Episode 4, tonight at 9pm, written by Jenn Engels ( also a fave) #growingupbrown
#transplantctv #ctv
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"Transplant (created by Joseph Kay) is unusual in its emotional grit and sometimes thriller-like pace... Transplant has its own energy and voice."
Very happy to have been part of this groundbreaking show. Transplant airs tonight on CTV @ 9pm!
theglobeandmail.com/arts/televisio…
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@catgrahampoet @festofauthors @penguinrandom So looking forward to chatting with you about the book, Catherine! (Though I wish I was in Puerto Plata instead of my book :)
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Happy to be reading @anarali’s novel #NightofPower in #PuertoPlato. Looking forward to interviewing her this April at #BytheLakeBookclub! @festofauthors #AssemblyHall #Etobicoke @penguinrandom ☀️
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From Sea to Sea. At the launch of Isabel Allende’s beautiful and wrenching new novel, Long Petal of the Sea. @Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts
#isabelallende #miami #arshtcenter #thisisnotthesuperbowl
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Essential reading, from Desmond Cole (a fellow Red Deer-ite). The Skin We’re In. #desmondcole #ago #theskinwerein @ AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario
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Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Services: Justice for Santina Rao - Sign the Petition! chng.it/RPhDWh5J via @CdnChange
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An ad from @goldenglobes last night. Transplant, starring a Syrian refugee doctor as the lead (!) and played by the imitable hmzlhq airs this Spring. I was lucky enough to be in the writing room in Toronto. @… instagram.com/p/B6_UM2UgAAw/…
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My year in books. Thank you, authors, for your faith and support and love. To many more bestsellers in 2020.
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Just got my copy of Night of Power, which was recently published on the Indian subcontinent. Here it is next to the North American copy. The key difference? The stars are made of “tinsel” making them sparkle, which… instagram.com/p/B6L_Zf1gg4u/…
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Finally, my mom gets to listen to one of my stories. I hope it lives up to her legacy! penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417179/n…
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