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• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind You Is the Sea

  Darraj, Susan Muaddi

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  A novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Palestine

  Growing Up Confused in An Arab-American Family

  Said, Najla,

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  A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity. The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Here

  a Memoir

  Mufleh, Luma,

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  With no word for “gay” in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well enough to keep them secret. It was clear that not only would her family have trouble accepting her,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tasting the Sky

  a Palestinian Childhood

  Barakat, Ibtisam

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  In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was Their American Dream

  a Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka,

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  I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wishing Upon the Same Stars

  Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar,

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  Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mama Wears a Hijab

  Abu, Fifi,

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  In this beautifully illustrated and tenderly written picture book, Arab American author-illustrator Fifi Abu crafts a touching love letter from child to mother. Mama Wears a Hijab is a vibrant and joyful celebration of modern Muslim women, seen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ten Ways to Hear Snow

  Camper, Cathy,

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  One winter morning, Lina wakes up to silence. It's the sound of snow -- the kind that looks soft and glows bright in the winter sun. But as she walks to her grandmother's house to help make the family recipe for warak enab, she continues to…Read moreRead more of this annotation