In celebration of Arab American Heritage Month, check out this selection of novels, poems and essays from Arab American writers!
Home is not a country, by Safia Elhillo (2021)
Love is an ex-country : a memoir, by Randa Jarrar (2021)
Deluge, by Leila Chatti (2020)
The Thirty Names of Night : a novel, by Zeyn Joukhadar (2020)
I was their american dream : a graphic memoir, by Malaka Gharib (2019)
The wrong end of the table : a mostly comic memoir of a Muslim Arab American woman just trying to fit in, by Ayser Salman (2019)
Mare Nostrum, poems by Khaled Mattawa (2019)
Amreekiya : a novel, by Lena Mahmoud (2018)
The opening, by Leila Abdelrazaq (2017)
Salt houses, by Hala Alyan (2017)
Hagar : poems, by Mohja Kahf (2016)
A curious land : stories from home, by Susan Muaddi Darraj (2015)
Birds of paradise: a novel, by Diana Abu-Jaber (2012)
My name on his tongue : poems, by Laila Halaby (2012)
Loom : a novel, by Thérèse Soukar Chehade (2010)
Angeleno days : an Arab American writer on family, place, and politics, by Gregory Orfalea (2009)
The Night counter : a novel, by Alia Yunis (2009)
Letters from Cairo, by Pauline Kaldas (2007)
The new belly dancer of the galaxy : novel, by Frances Khirallah Noble (2007)
The Cairo House : a novel, by Samia Serageldin (2000)
Hayati, my life : a novel, by Miriam Cooke (2000)
Thinking class : sketches from a cultural worker, by Joanna Kadi (1996)
Explore further with this even broader compilation of resources!