John Zada is a writer, author and photographer based in Toronto, Canada. He's worked in the newsrooms of both CBC News Network and Al Jazeera English. John has also taught travel writing and magazine writing at George Brown College. John's freelance work has appeared in such publications as the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Travel + Leisure, BBC, CBC, Al-Jazeera, New York Post, Explore, Maisonneuve, Montecristo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Toque & Canoe and Canadian Business. His first book, 'In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch', was chosen by Amazon as a Best Book of the Year in 2019. The Washington Post describes it as "a quirky and oddly captivating tale." Steve Donoghue of Open Letters Monthly calls the book "as eloquent and big-hearted as, for instance, Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard." Before turning his focus to writing, he spent several years working as a documentary filmmaker. He directed such projects as 'Up At Dawn: The Working Children of Egypt', and 'The Bitterest Exile'. More recently, John worked as a producer on 'Canada's Dark Secret' for Al-Jazeera, a film about Canada's residential school system.
MA, Political Science and International Relations, American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt BA, Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
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