MEDIA: "Once Were Radicals" on Radio National's Life Matters ...

No, not that ABC!

The author of Once Were Radicals: My years as a teenage Islamo-fascist featured on the Radio National Life Matters show on Thursday 30 April 2009.

You can listen to the interview by clicking here.

You can also download the interview by clicking here.

Though apparently you won't be able to do this for long. And we're still trying to figure out how to upload the recording that we ourselves have downloaded!

AUDIO: Interview on SBS Radio Urdu service - Part I

Laugh yourselves silly at Irfan Yusuf's Urdu. Why not? His mum certainly does.

To listen to Part 1 of this interview, click here ...

EVENT: Canberra Launch - Sunday 31 May 2009

Come along to the launch of ...

3pm

Sunday 31 May 2009

Paperchain Bookstore

34 Franklin Street

Manuka

(see here for directions)

The book will be launched by

Virginia Haussegger, ABC News Presenter, award-winning journalist, Canberra Times columnist and author.

To RSVP for this event, please e-mail oncewereradicals@gmail.com.

EVENT: Sydney launch - Monday 4 May 2009 - Granville

Laurie Ferguson, Federal Member for Reid since 1990 and current Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services.

Irfan Yusuf, Liberal Candidate for Reid, 2001

In November 2001, Irfan Yusuf and Laurie Ferguson went head-to-head in a fierce contest for the Federal Seat of Reid.

Federal Electorate of Reid in the geographical heart of Sydney



Ferguson defeated Yusuf in that contest by the narrowest of margins - 42,726 votes to 21,165.


Irfan Yusuf out on the hustings shaking hands with someone who probably didn't vote for him.



On 4 May 2009, Laurie Ferguson and Irfan Yusuf will meet again for another head-to-head contest. But will Ferguson defeat Yusuf this time round?


You won't know unless you turn up to watch Yusuf and Ferguson together again for one night only to see who will be Reid's biggest los ... woops ... who can eat more baklav ... er, no ... who will prove to be the more radical ex-radical. Or something like that.


Basically what we're saying is that you're invited to the launch of Irfan Yusuf's irreverent suburban Aussie Muslim memoir Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist.


WHEN? Monday 4 May 2009 at 7:30pm

WHERE? El-Sweetie, 73-75 South Street, Granville

WHY? Just shut up and come.


You'll also be able to purchase copies of the book on the night at a special discounted price of $25 each. That's a saving of $1.95 per copy from the normal store price!


Enough to make you want to jump for joy!!


To RSVP for this awesome event, e-mail oncewereradicals@gmail.com

EVENT: Gleebooks - Wednesday 13 May 2009

Wednesday 13 May 2009

6.30 for 7pm
Irfan Yusuf
Once Were Radicals
Published by: Allen & Unwin
In conversation with Antony Loewenstein

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
For more details, click here.

EVENT: Parramatta punch ...

Watch the author punch himself in the face at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta on Wednesday 20 May 2009. Irfan Yusuf will be "in conversation" with Brendan Phelan of NewMatilda fame. Irfan regularly writes for New Matilda, and if you've got nothing better to do then you can read his stuff here.

The Parramatta gig is part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. You can find out more about the gig by clicking here. The most wonderful think about this gig is that it is FREE!

EVENT: Launch of Once Were Radicals ...

Well, readers, we now have a date for the launch of Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist. The launch date is 4 May 2009. The book will be launched in the heart of Auburn, a place where the author once lived and worked and even ran as an endorsed Liberal Party candidate in a federal election.

We even have someone to launch the event. However, at this stage we don't wish to reveal too much about that person. We can, however, provide you with the following two clues ...

1. This person defeated the author in the 2001 Federal Election by around 14,000 votes; and

2. This person very very closely resembles the chap featured below ...



Apart from that, there's not much we can tell you at this stage. Further details will be released anon.

UPDATE I: The launch will now be held in the suburb next door to Auburn. More details soonish.