Williams and Bell interviewed Jamelie Hassan about her works from the 80s and 90s. Hassan's interest to restore voice to the silenced is discussed in relation to her use of narratives of exile and migration from her friends' and family's histories, references to global manifestations of oppression and racism, Frantz Fanon's analysis of colonialism, and Edward Said's Orientalism. Hassan's negotiations of and inquiries on the relationship between cultures - such as that of the Arab community and the First Nations community in Canada - are also central to this discussion.