Montréal Serai aims to stretch beyond colonial mindsets with thoughtful essays, interviews with artists, elders and activists, reviews, commentaries, short stories, poems, artwork, videos, music, and much more. Neither strictly local nor focusing on current affairs, our magazine gives space to alternative perspectives that transcend and challenge mainstream concerns.
Based in Montréal, known far longer as Tiohtiá:ke, our webzine is recognized as an inclusive and welcoming space in which both emerging and established artists and writers can engage. Serai (from the Persian word, caravanserai) means a resting place for travelers.
This land – Tiohtiá:ke – was never surrendered. It is live, unceded territory. We offer our respect and thanks to the many Indigenous nations that have honoured its waters and forests and skies for millennia. In particular, we thank its guardians, the Kanien’kéha: ka (Mohawk) people – and the Algonquin and Huron-Wendat peoples who share deep ties with this land. We are grateful for their ongoing leadership and teachings that have not been silenced, even in the face of genocide and 500 years of colonial plunder and devastation.
Niawen. Chi megwetch. Tiawenhk.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
Stella Pace
Antoine Bustros
Stephen Morrissey
Darren Ell & Maria Worton
Warren Allmand
Stan Gray
Aziz Choudry
Maya Khankhoje
Jesse Klein
Matt Lipscombe
Scott Weinstein
Julie Mahfood
Rana Bose
Máire B. Noonan
Lisa Foster
Maria Worton
Prasun Lala
Christopher Barnes
Lyne Lapointe
Patrick Barnard
Dimitri Roussopoulos
Norman Nawrocki
Mehdi Naïmi
Ilona Martonfi
Maria Al-Masani
Lesley Pasquin
Sana Khawaja Saeed
Ehab Lotayef
Susan Dubrofsky
Mike Wozniewki
James Cockcroft
David Duchow
Sundus Abdul Hadi and Maria Worton
Anne Cimon
Rona Altrows
Gary Beck
rosalind hampton
Nilambri Ghai
Anushree Varma
Bernard Miller
Edgardo “Gar” Morales
Anna Fuerstenberg
Jooneed Khan
Peter Hallward
Johanne Nielsen
K. Gandhar Chakravarty
Subir Das
Uday Khankhoje
John Fretz
Jaspreet Singh
Niranjana Iyer
Mark Silverman
Rawi Hage
Juliana Keller
Nancy Ferragallo
Durga Chew-Bose
Julian Samuel
Vithal Rajan
Priyanka Borpujari
Mirella Bontempo
Irène Johnson
Loren Edizel
Sana Saeed
Anne Dubrofsky
Jody Freeman
Luigi Monteferrante
Jacqueline Fortson
Avrom Shtern
David Fletcher
Malcolm Reid
George Vassiadis
Bryan Sentes
Sandra Levy
Louise Dessertine
Pietro Ferrua
Yung-chien Lew
Shyamal Bagchee
Pat Osborne
Nadine Ltaif
Anisha Dutt
Lingling Geng
Mary Ellen Davis
Prospero Saiz
Rola Harmouche
Michael Neumann
Dr. Samia Costandi
Joy Moore
Nasrin Himada
Ronit Milo
Najat Rahman
Montreal Serai
Deena Roskies
Louise Carson
Tomás Ramírez
Keena
Carmen Cordero Amores
Shanti Kumari Johnson
Rosemany Ahtuangaruak
Stan Swamy
Martyn Bryant
Mark Krupa
Naomi Bellos
Susan Dubrofsky & Maya Khankhoje
Sheila Kristinnson
Brian Campbell
S. Nadja Zajdman
Nelsy Massoud
Darren Ell
Bulbul Mankani
Breanna Myles
Trisha Srivastav
Carlos Ferrand
Peter Martin
Vanessa Chio, Mehdi Naimi, & George Beriault
Ian McDonald
Terrie Shauer
basil papadimos
abouali farmanfarmian
s. ramgoolam
Michael Moore
Tor Wennerberg
Michel Chuossudovsky
Mark Kingwell
Peter Fourie
Lorraine Simms
Eduardo Galeano
Ellen Gabriel
Tania Nesterovski
Miles Weinstein
Mary-Ellen Davis
Matthew Soule
Shubhobroto Ghosh
Joshua Rapp Learn
Maha el Marraghi
Sam Boskey
Sylvia Goldfarb
Gabrielle Mathews
Sujata Dey
Dominic Boudreault
Philip Tinkler
Patrick Bolland
John Molto Fretz
Paula Friedman
Arjun Janah
Tariq Jeeroburkhan
Rola Harmouche & Prasun Lala
Jason Botkin
Prasun Lala & Rana Bose
Ling Yuen
Kaie Kellough
Dr. Pramod Dhakal
Ashoke Dasgupta
Tapan Kumar Bose
Linda Leith
Sheniz Janmohamed
Cyril Dabydeen
Marianne Ackerman
Gabi Mathews
Chris Velan
Paris Elizabeth Sea
Paul Hawkins
Marie Thérèse Blanc
Shree Mulay
Frédéric Plourde
Deirdre Silverman
Cheryl Neill
Charlotte Hussey
Federico Hidalgo
Father Gaston Roberge, SJ
Mary Ellen Davis (textes et photos)
Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy
Mark A. Krupa
Dyane Lessard
SHAM
Richard Swift
Lorrie Beauchamp and Robert Knight
Tahieròn:iohte Dan David
Claudia Itzkowich
Montreal Serai Mobile Interview Crew
Veena Gokhale
Andrew J Hill
Suzanne Côté
David Ryback
John Bradley
Daniel Goldsmith
Paul Serralheiro
Dawn McSweeney
Merrianne Couture
Dominique Normand
James Oscar
Abby Lippman
Joyce Arthur
Joyce Valbuena
Tia Sarkar
Ana Maria Pavela
Megan Tolbert
Talleen Hacikyan
Katherine Clarke-Nolan
Simon Van Vliet
Stefan Christoff
Jayanta Guha
Gabriel Obadia
Marie Boti
Mara Grey
Doreen Vanderstoop
Faraz Sarwat
Matt Jones
Nigel Thomas
Sam Noumoff
caraballo-farman
Sharon Lax
Oleg Dergachov
Liza Sokolovskaya
Vanaja Dhruvarajan
Serena Sial
Graziella Malagoni
Jorge Cancino
Dolores Chew
Samia Costandi
Maya Khankhoje and Mirella Bontempo
Steve Zylbergold
Dinh Le Doan
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
Renée Duval
Robert Paquin
Roger Jochym
Tamara Nazywalskyj
Michael Fish
Meghri Doumanian
David Gates
Nick Foster
Savannah Stewart
SéKAI SéKAI
Brian Michael Barbieto
Savita Singh
Asoke Chakravarty
Catherine Watson
Adam Black
Kayhan Irani
Tanya Kaur Bindra
Adele Shtern
Renate Lindeman
Deirdre Silverman and Mark Silverman
Sharon Zajdman
Sharon Bourke
MaryCarl Guiao
Shanti Kumari
Roberto Perezdiaz
Nicholas Hamel
Gaston Roberge
Jordan Dessertine
Kamalinee
Neilesh Bose
Karin Cope
Ranabir Samaddar
Cora Siré
Guy Sprung
Maren Wickwire
Konstantinos Meramveliotakis
Rajashri Dasgupta
Thomas Marcel Hurtut
Dan Delaney
Dorota Kozinska
Tamara Faith Berger
Maya Khankhoje & Jody Freeman
Annie Bouvrette
Astha Agarwal
Klara du Plessis
Claudia Itzkowich Schñadower
Uma Parameswaran
Inti Naxhiellii Barrios Hernandez, with Joyce Valbuena and Giuliana Fumagalli
Joyce Valbuena and Inti Barrios
Lesley Strutt
Michael Bristol
Jody Freeman and Rola Harmouche
Nilanjan Dutta
Nada El-Omari
Andrés Castro
Dorota Anna Kozinska
Laura Neidhart
Aliya Varma
Taryn Foster
Naghmeh Sharifi
Madeleine Chevalier
Brian McDonough
Anne Marie Noël
Anne-Marie Noël
Andrés Castro
Bonnie Brotman Shore
Yahia Lababidi
James Olwell
Rana Bose & Nilambri Ghai
Amrita Choudhury
Máire Noonan
Yves Decoste
Sivan Slapak
Máire Noonan
Saswata Sen
Johanne Ricard
Sophie Gazarian
Joseph Kary
Subhadra Khaperde & Rahul Banerjee
Gavin Morais
Aditya Verma
Diane Denault
Alicia Loría
Gregory P. Starks
Dina Gardashkin
Wartin Pantois
Anne Bruneau
Diana Goldberg Mayo
Karan Singh
Dipti Gupta
Kerry McElroy
Dipti Gupta & Raphael Cohen-Demers
Jesse Noah Klein & Durga Chew-Bose
Jesse Klein & Durga Chew-Bose
Jody Freeman, with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb
Catherine Bainbridge, Ernest Webb & Jody Freeman
Maya Khamala
Deanna Smith
Greg Santos
Ami Sands Brodoff
Clayton Bailey
Aparna Sanyal
ekoh dubois
Marie-Josée Tremblay
Martine Eloy
Élizabeth Gélinas
David Groulx
Himmat Shinhat
Keya Dasgupta, Subhendu Dasgupta & Tilak Seth
Jooneed J Khan
Howard Rosenstein
Blossom Thom
Rahul Varma
Himmat Singh Shinhat
Jan Jorgensen
Koulsy Lamko
Stanley Février
Marie Thérèse Blanc
Brenda Linn
Gina Roitman
Mary Dean Lee
Jack Klein
G.G. Jolly
Amanda Woolrich
Dea Koxhaxhiku
Charles William Johnson
Vrajesh Hanspal
Savitri Sawhney
Rana Bose, Nilambri Ghai and Jody Freeman
José Luis Aranda with commentary by Claudia Itzkowich
José Luis Aranda & Claudia Itzkowich
Rae Marie Taylor
Claudia Itzkowich with
Mark Foss
Naghmeh Sharifi, interviewed by Claudia Itzkowich
Jane Affleck
Amrit Wilson
Gavin Morais & James Oscar
Mostafa Henaway
Shankar Tadwal, Subhadra Khaperde and Rahul Banerjee
Shankar Tadwal, Subhadra Khaperde & Rahul Banerjee
Alice Cormier & Carolyn Marie Souaid
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Sáasil Uj Chi Xool, María Reneyda Xool Yam, and Hilario Chi Canul
Craig Commanda
Leah Kanerahtaroroks Diome
Michèle Audette
Hugh Hazelton
Savita Singh & Medha Singh
Michael Mirolla
Florence Yee
Mayank Bhatt
Endre Farkas
Ian Ferrier
Ajit Ghai
Gloria Macher
Rajath A. Suri
Anahita Norouzi
Zachary Couture
Divya Singh
Zoë Johnston
Prasun Lala and Jody Freeman
Zab Maboungou and Elli Miller Maboungou and Jody Freeman
Laurel Páez Brave
Nicola Vulpe
Claudia Itzkowich Schñadower & Jody Freeman
Nilambri Ghai & Amani Singh
Kerry McElroy, with Ossie Michelin
Ossie Michelin & Dr. Kerry McElroy
Carolyne Van Der Meer
Jim Upton
Elana Wolff
Elana Wolff’
Kathryn Jordan
Pasha M. Khan
Miriam Edelson
Sipi Flamand and Jody Freeman
Eric James Jensen
Kevin Callahan
DL Jones
Linda Briskin
Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux & Dave-Lentz Lormeus (aka DL Jones)
Sandeep Banerjee
Himmat Singh Shinhat & Veena Gokhale
Yves Sioui Durand & Jody Freeman
Ned Baeck
Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand
Jila Mossaed, Nicola Vulpe, Gazelle Bastan
Zachary Jericho Couture
Chief Jean-Charles Piétacho & Jody Freeman
Sofia Mesa
Fernando Moreno
Katharine Beeman
Iftekhar Ahmed
Sharlene Bamboat and Fan Wu
Patrick Visentin
Kalpesh Oza
Tiziano Cruz & Claudia Itzkowich Schnadower
Allie Duff
Catherine Herrmann
Sheila Stewart
Janet Singleton
Truong Thi Huong Thuy
Gazelle Bastan
Emma Lesur
