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STARFest Presents: Zeina Sleiman

Friday, May 8, 2026
7:00pm to 9:00pm

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)
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Free
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Organized by: St. Albert Public Library
May
8

Join Zeina Sleiman in conversation with Sumaiya Matin as they discuss Where the Jasmine Blooms.

In Where the Jasmine Blooms, Two Palestinian cousins with very different lives meet in Lebanon and discover their family’s political secrets amid the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.

Zeina Sleiman is a Palestinian Canadian writer based in Edmonton. In 2025, her Short Story My Father's Soil was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and she was listed among 22 Canadian writers to watch. Her debut fiction Where the Jasmine Blooms is a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. She has a PhD in Political Science and her writing often draws on her academic background and research interests.

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9

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