Monday, April 13, 8pm: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts a new fiction showcase featuring acclaimed authors Hannah Lillith Assadi, Nora Lange, Andrew Martin, @giadascodellaro.bsky.social, and @deenaelg.bsky.social! www.facebook.com/share/14YBdR... #free #crownheights
One week from tonight, join us on Thursday, January 15th 7:30pm as we welcome Jaquira Diaz, @deenaelg.bsky.social , Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and @jenpercy.bsky.social to the Pete's stage! 🔥 With your hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social and books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
For People Magazine, I wrote about what makes for “good” representation and the often complicated nature of Muslim identity
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thank you to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for letting me make a playlist for my debut novel, Dust Settles North!
So if you're looking for a new book to read this fall, check out our conversation and read @deenaelg.bsky.social Deena's debut! #booksky #podcast
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I got to interview my lovely client @deenaelg.bsky.social about her writing process, our submission journey, and what we love about this book. We even talk about how Zain and Hannah navigate #selflove on their own journeys. #booksky #podcast
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We're celebrating the launch of DUST SETTLES NORTH by @deenaelg.bsky.social on the podcast! A beautiful debut about two siblings navigating their mother's grief between two worlds: Egypt and the United States. #booksky #podcast
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“Almost immediately the grief breaks down those rules, and you see the systems starting to crumble.”
“A lot of religious communities have these rules... & want to project this image to the world that they’re following them while they have this whole secret life where they’re doing things that don’t align with the religion.” — @deenaelg.bsky.social
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Deena ElGenaidi (@deenaelg.bsky.social) and Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal speak on Egyptian politics, grief as plot, and intentionally othering the English language.
i loved getting to talk to my friend (and writers’ group member) @deenaelg.bsky.social about being culturally, but not religiously, muslim, and how that informed her debut novel DUST SETTLES NORTH, out today wherever books are sold!
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Happy #bookbirthday to @deenaelg.bsky.social's debut, DUST SETTLES NORTH! If you're looking for a heartfelt story about two siblings navigating grief, this one is for you! 🩷 🧡
@binderybooks.bsky.social @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social #booksky
Counting down to 9/30 🥳
@deenaelg.bsky.social
I don’t post on here very often, mostly because I forget bluesky even exists, but my debut novel is coming out on Tuesday! If you’re in NYC, come to my book launch on Sep 30th at 7pm. And if you’re not, it would mean so much to me if you could preorder a copy 💙
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A week from today, @deenaelg.bsky.social’s debut will be out in the world. I cannot wait for everyone to see how special this book is. 🥲 #debut #booksky
Preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/dust...
Thank you!!!
For @electricliterature.com I interviewed author Hala Alyan about her new memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
Why would anyone who can avoid it come to the US now? Heartbreaking. Pointless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
if we accept the conflation of property damage with violence, we surrender a valuable tool for making our displeasure known. destroying a car (for example...) is not equivalent to hurting a person, and don't let them pretend it is.
book cover for Dust Settles North a novel by Deena ElGenaidi. The cover features a woman's side profile repeating over and over resembling hills. They are all different shades of pink and orange.
current read: Dust Settles North by @deenaelg.bsky.social
This one releases Sept 2025 with Bindery & Boundless Press.
It's one of those books you really can't put down. It's genuinely getting in the way of my work day, I need to know what happens next to these disaster siblings
thank you!! I’m so glad you’re liking it!
@ kendrick lamar do one about schumer
i’ve BEEN saying this
