This is the second of two engagements at UBC featuring journalist and UBC alum Nilo Tabrizy. A student reading group will also convene on October 27th.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
5:30 – 7:30pm
Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,
1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
What does it mean to tell a story that might otherwise be erased? Join us for an engaged dialogue with journalist and UBC Arts alumna Nilo Tabrizy, whose acclaimed new book For the Sun After Long Nights (Pantheon / Penguin Random House Canada, co-authored with Fatemeh Jamalpour) chronicles Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom uprising. In conversation with Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity, Neda Maghbouleh (UBC Sociology), Tabrizy will reflect on the intersections of journalism and scholarship, the power of friendship and feminism, and the enduring role of art and memory in movements for change. A reception will follow the event. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from UBC Bookstore in October. Please feel free to bring your copy of the book to be signed.
Nilo Tabrizy. Photo by Emily Rhyne.
Speaker: Nilo Tabrizy
NILO TABRIZY is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post. She works for the Visual Forensics team, where she covers Iran using open-source methods. Previously, she was a video journalist at The New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, abortion access, and more. She is an Emmy nominee and the 2022 winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting. Nilo received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of British Columbia.
Neda Maghbouleh
Discussant: Dr. Neda Maghbouleh
NEDA MAGHBOULEH is Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity and Associate Professor of Sociology at UBC. She is the author of The Limits of Whiteness (Stanford University Press), an award-winning study of Iranian American racialization discussed in outlets including the Los Angeles Times, NPR, and Literary Review of Canada. Her research has shaped data infrastructure for organizations including the American Medical Association, Statistics Canada, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
A recording of the event will be made available later here.
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This event is full. Thank you for your interest.
This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Arts.
ACCESSIBILITY DETAILS
The closest accessible parking lots are the North Parkade and Rose Garden Parkade.
Enter the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at 1961 East Mall. This entrance is sidewalk-level, with no steps. The entrance has a power door.
The elevator is directly to the left of the entrance. Take it to the 3rd floor, exit and go straight ahead, crossing through the Commons. Take care when crossing the Commons as the floor may be slippery when wet.
The Dodson Room entrance does not have an automatic door opener. Doors will be open until the talk begins and staff will be available to open the door if assistance is needed.
A table will be reserved for wheelchair/scooter users and cushioned seating will be reserved for those who need it.
An all-gender, single-stall accessible washroom is located near the elevator on the 3rd floor, next to gendered, multi-stall washrooms.
The lecture will be amplified and live-captioned on the projection screen in the room.
The health of our community is important to us. Masks are welcome and will be available free of charge. To reduce the risks to Elders and medically vulnerable attendees, we kindly ask that you stay home if you have any cold or flu symptoms.
In consideration of those with chemical sensitivities, we ask that attendees refrain from wearing perfumes and minimize your use of other scented products.