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Past Events
- Celebrity & Literary Luncheon With Popular TV Personality Nicky Buckley
- First Celebrity & Literary Luncheon for 2015 with Blanche d'Alpuget
- Patsy Rowe 2014 Melbourne Cup
- Celebrity and Literary Luncheon at The Gold Coast Arts Centre Bundall with Di Fingleton and Paul Conibeer
- Inaugural Celebrity and Literary Luncheon with Alan Whiticker
Book Launch and Ultimate Luncheon at The Villa featuring author Latifa Ali
Event Date : July 31, 2009
Latifa Ali, a young woman born in Australia of Iraqi parents, was tricked into returning to their homeland on the pretext that her grandfather was ill. When she arrived her mother confiscated her mobile phone and passport and told Latifa she would now live as a 'good Iraqi' girl, observing ancient family customs and ultimately marry a local boy.
Latifa was horrified and spent many miserable months thinking about how to escape. Her story is gripping as it is also the story of life for millions of women in a repressed patriarchal Muslim Society.
