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Diverse Reads for All Ages April 2025 Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month |
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Arab fairy tale feasts : a literary cookbook
by Karim Alrawi
Award-winning writer and storyteller, Karim Alrawi, draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture to create original stories that are a feast for young imaginations. Told with intriguing details, the tales take young readers on a delicious cultural journey and invite them to consider an Arab perspective. Each tale symbolically incorporates food and concludes with a traditional recipe, lovingly flavored with colorful folkloric illustrations, making this a literary banquet to savor with family and friends across generations time and again
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Sitti's bird : a Gaza story
by Malak Mattar
Sitti's Bird: A Gaza Story is a unique children's picture book, written and illustrated by Palestinian artist, Malak Mattar. Reflecting her experiences of childhood in occupied Palestine, Malak's story brings warmth and wonder to children as it tells of her rebirth as an artist during the 2014 airstrikes on Gaza. It is the story of a young girl whose love for her family and discovery of art help her channel her fears and overcome traumas that few of us can imagine-traumas shared by countless children in Gaza and around the world
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Arab Arab all year long!
by Cathy Camper
Accompanied by lively illustrations, this picture book celebrates the beauty and diversity of Arab life and childhood enthusiasm throughout the entire year as busy kids take part in traditions old and new. Illustrations.
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The turtle of Michigan : a novel
by Naomi Shihab Nye
In this highly anticipated stand-alone companion to The Turtle of Oman, Aref travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is reunited with his father and tries to adjust to his new life. 50,000 first printing.
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Man o' war
by Cory McCarthy
While at a marine life theme park, River's encounter with a queer person lands him in the shark tank, which launches a journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love. Simultaneous eBook.
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Huda F cares
by Huda Fahmy
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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From here : a memoir
by Luma Mufleh
Refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.
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The next new Syrian girl
by Ream Shukairy
When their worlds collide, Khadija Shami, a sheltered Syrian American high school senior with a monstrous ego, and Leene Tahir, a Syrian refugee doing her best to survive school and family pressures while battling panic attacks, become the unlikeliest of friends.
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Behind you is the sea : a novel
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
A new 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 class, generation and religion.
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Dearborn : stories
by Ghassan Zeineddine
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. By turns wildly funny, incisive, and deeply moving, Dearborn introduces readers to an arresting new voice in contemporary fiction and invites us all to consider what it means to be part of a place and community, and how it is that we help one another survive.
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No land to light on : a novel
by Yara Zgheib
A young Syrian couple awaiting the birth of their son, Hadi and Sama dream of their life together until Hadi's father dies suddenly in Jordan, and Hadi, after attending the funeral, is detained for questioning and becomes trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo.
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Kitchen Arabic : How my family came to America and the recipes we brought with us
by Joseph Geha
Illustrates Joseph Geha's early years in America and his family's struggle to learn the language and ways of a new world. A compilation of family recipes and of the stories that came with them, it deftly blends culture with cuisine. In her kitchen, Geha's mother took special pride in the Arabic dishes she cooked, cherishing that aspect of her heritage that, unlike language, has changed very little over time and distance.
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