{"id":21567,"date":"2026-02-16T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21567"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:03:19","slug":"dania-idriss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/dania-idriss\/","title":{"rendered":"Dania Idriss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dania Idriss is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and doctoral student at the University of Calgary. Her publisher notes that Idriss’s research and creative work focus on global literatures, particularly Arabic speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tales of the Mountains and the Sea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary: Freehand Books, 2026.
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A teenage girl mourns the death of her grandmother, only to feel her grandmother\u2019s spirit possessing her in a way that seems malicious. A family, struggling to make ends meet, receives an unexpected visitor, who has an awful proposal that may be impossible to refuse. A young girl worries that her brother is falling in with the wrong crowd, as civil war breaks out on the streets around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five stories in Tales of the Mountains and the Sea<\/em> trace pivotal movements in modern Lebanese history and the effects they have on women. As she centres women and the choices that they make, Dania Idriss deftly weaves together history and folktales in a way that is both evocative and chilling. The Tales of the Mountains and the Sea<\/em> is a startling and astonishing debut that navigates the intricate nuances of human experience, cultural identity, family history, and the lasting impacts of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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