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Kamal Al-Solaylee

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Aden, Yemen

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Kamal Al-Solaylee (born 1964) is a Canadian journalist, who published his debut book, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, in 2012.

Born in Aden, his family went into exile in Beirut and Cairo following the British decolonization of Yemen in 1967. Following a brief return to Yemen in his 20s, Al-Solaylee moved to London to complete his PhD in English, before moving to Canada.

He has worked extensively as a journalist in Canada, including work for the Globe and Mail, Report on Business, the Toronto Star, the National Post, The Walrus, Xtra! and Toronto Life. He is currently the director of the undergraduate journalism program at Ryerson University.

His book Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes is a memoir of his experience as a gay man growing up in ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 1,804 ratings · 268 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes 3.65 avg rating — 1,098 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means 4.04 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From 3.65 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad Monkton And Other Stories by Wilkie Collins, Kamal Al-Solaylee (Primary Contributor), Norman Page (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1855 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Canadian Essays 2010 by Alex Boyd (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kamal Al-Solaylee (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Two black friends have suggested to me that the relatively light skin tones of Syrian refugees explain why Canadians have opened their wallets and homes so generously.”
― Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means

tags: colorism, racism, refugees

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“Freedom with poverty meant more to me than money without personal choice”
― Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes

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“When you move to another country, the only thing that stays in your memory is your house, the tree next to your house, and the bench," Igor tells me, as a mortified Daniela sighs. She had warned me that her father liked to speak in metaphors. "He has a metaphor for every situation in life," she says as he smiles and ignores her. On that trip in 1995, he founds out that the house was gone, the tree cut down and the bench burnt. "The only thing in your memory and now it's nothing. Even after only four years, I realized that Israel is my home."

Their feelings track with what some scholars of diaspora and return immigration say about the relegation of the country of origin into the realm of nostalgia and memory after just a few years in the new homeland.”
― Kamal Al-Solaylee, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From

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