Alana Mohamed

‘Looking back at my parents’ experience, I always wondered, “How bad did things have to get in order for you to leave everything you know and love?” ’

The Sudanese Australian writer was scheduled for an event titled “The M Word: No Country for Young Muslim Women”

This year some 165 writers representing more than fifty nationalities are scheduled to participate

For four decades the St. Marks watering hole was something like Cheers for locals, misfits and the resistance alike