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Today on Writers & Compnay - Lebanese intellectual and novelist Ilyās Khūrī (Elias Khoury). His books are set against war-torn Beirut and blend myth, history, and storytelling to create a surreal picture of life in modern Lebanon.

Thirty years after Salman Rushdie's interview with Eleanor Wachtel during his secret visit to Canada in 1992, Writers & Company pays special tribute to the author, revisiting conversations with Rushdie in 1992 and 2015.

Live onstage at the Banff Centre - Eleanor talks with Salman Rushdie about his 12th novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, inspired by 1001 Nights. Like Scheherazade, Rushdie, the irrepressible storyteller, has also lived on the brink of destruction.