Ziyad Saadi is a Palestinian Canadian writer, actor and filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Thalia Stopa, "From Real Life Party Woes to Film Adaptations, with Local Author Ziyad Saadi". Scout, August 26, 2025. His debut novel, Three Parties, centred on a young Palestinian American man whose plan to come out as gay on his 23rd birthday goes awry.Brett Josef Grubisic, "Three Parties by Ziyad Saadi, and Property by Kate Cayley". Quill & Quire, September 2025.
The book was shortlisted for the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers.Cassandra Drudi, "Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari, Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize". Quill & Quire, September 3, 2025.
Prior to publishing Three Parties, Saadi wrote and directed a number of short films,Paul Gallant, "Ziyad Saadi’s Debut Novel Is Definitely Not An Instruction Manual For Coming Out". In Magazine, September 15, 2025. including Hello, My Name Is Death and Don't Open Me,Sristi Gayen, "Ziyad Saadi’s ‘Don’t Open Me’: Perfectly Balanced Menagerie Of Wild Intrigues" . Indie Shorts, August 5, 2019. and was a producer of the horror film Bag Boy Lover Boy.Daniel Gawthrop, "‘Gays like you…’". The British Columbia Review, August 17, 2025.
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