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4 unusual facts about Julie Mehta


Harish Mehta

Harish is married to Julie Mehta, a scholar of Postcolonial studies, who teaches at the University of Toronto.

Julie Mehta

Julie was also a feature writer on religion, arts, and cultures of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, India and Cambodia; and columnist for The Nation, Bangkok, and The Straits Times, Singapore.

Literary reviewer of contemporary literature and interviewer of Booker Prize winners and celebrated authors such as Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Norman Mailer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Christopher J. Koch and many others.

Her course, Asian Cultures in Canada, is endowed by Chancellor Emerita Senator Vivienne Poy.



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Harish Mehta

Dr. Mehta has written three books on Cambodia: Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia (co-author Julie Mehta) is based on several hours of interviews with Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom the authors have known personally for twenty-one years.