2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Ziyad Saadi

British Columbia/Palestine

ZIYAD SAADI is a Palestinian Canadian writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. He is a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist and winner of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau pilot writing competition. His short story "The Third or Fourth Casualty" is featured in the Palestinian speculative fiction anthology Thyme Travellers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Concordia University.

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