Teatime with Miss Liz T-E-A Open Discussion with Yasmin Azad "Stay Daughter Memoir"

,
Evening teatime September 28th, 7 pm EST with Miss Liz joining me is the author of Stay Daughter Yasmin Azad, bring you her memoir of growing up in the 50s and 60s as a Muslim woman—the cultural beliefs on daughters in the country of Sri Lanka. Spe brings you a T-E-A of awareness and inspiration. LIVE STREAMING TO MULTIPLE PLATFORMS AND PODCAST STATIONS AND APPS. Live show on Miss Liz’s YouTube channel below. Please givesubscription it a quick subscribe and be notified when teatime is live. https://youtube.com/@misslizsteatimes?si=Q-jDZyTLDlPaNDyiYasmin Azad is the author of Stay, Daughter, an engaging memoir of how a young Muslim girl grew up in Sri Lanka in the 1950s and ‘60s, and how she came to America after seeing what happens when cultures collide.
Kirkus Reviews named her book as one of the best of the year. Azad was among the first group of girls in her Muslim community in Sri Lanka to go away to university. Stay, Daughter draws on her experiences growing up in a close-knit, conservative society which had to deal with the challenge of reconciling the rules of Islamic orthodoxy with the freedoms and innovations of the modern world. Born and raised in the Galle Fort, Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon) by a traditional Muslim family, she lived in a former colonial fortress inhabited by Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and the Christian descendants of the Europeans who had colonized the island. Muslims are a 10% minority population in Sri Lanka, a Buddhist-majority nation. Her primary education was at Catholic schools run by Irish nuns, but her favourite teacher was a Hindu. She came to America in the late 1970s and lived in Connecticut. She and her husband moved to Massachusetts and raised their three children there. Azad had worked for over 20 years as an award-winning mental health counsellor. She has a deep interest in the unique and emotional repercussions on societies (both positive and negative) when women are raised in highly individualistic cultures as opposed to those that stress the importance of family and community. She has been interviewed by or featured in numerous media outlets, including BBC World News, The National Magazine, Perspective Magazine, Daily News in Sri Lanka, and Sunday Island in Sri Lanka. Azad earned her BA in English from the University of Ceylon, MA in English from the University of Connecticut, and MA in Psychology from Fitchburg State College. She lectured in English for three years at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. When she’s not writing essays and articles, she is gardening or practicing mindfulness meditation. She resides in Waltham, MA. For more information, please consult: www.staydaughter.com