Today the Israelis ordered the evacuation of the southern suburbs of Beirut. This included a couple Palestinian refugee camps. People who were displaced during the Nakba or in 67, settled in Beirut and now their grand/great grandchildren are once again displaced.
Well worth reading
Book cover for Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman (Fernwood Publishing). Two Palestinian cousins with very different lives meet in Lebanon and discover their family’s political secrets amid the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/where-the-jasmine-blooms
Book cover for An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike (Heyday): A gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism. https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/an-indian-among-los-indigenas-paperback/
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: An Indian Among los Indígenas by Ursula Pike (@heydaybooks.com): www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/an-i... & Where the Jasmine Blooms by @zslong.bsky.social (@fernpub.bsky.social): fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/where-t... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading
Israel is using a 'no war, no peace' Lebanonisation model in Gaza, analysts say.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
The cover of Where the Jasmine Blooms, by Zeina Sleiman. The background is a grey-green, with a photo of jasmine visible behind the main part of the cover--it looks like a ribbon around it. There are two hands, one emerging from the top left of the cover, and one from the bottom right. The top one is dropping a pomegranate into the bottom one's palm
Headshot of Zeina Sleiman, against a deliberately-blurred background consisting of brown fields with one patch of green, green trees along the horizon, and a blue sky filled with puffy clouds
Read Sumaiya Matin's interview of @zslong.bsky.social re: her novel Where the Jasmine Blooms (pub. @fernpub.bsky.social)!
...I think that we all want to live in places where we feel safe, like we belong and have the opportunities to live a comfortable life...
www.thetemzreview.com/matin-sleima...
I got news a few weeks ago that my book has gone to second print! I’m so grateful to everyone who’s been reading and sharing. To celebrate, I’m running a giveaway on my Insta, head over there to enter ❤️ #bookgiveaway #books #reading
A screenshot of the ALU staff's zoom discussion about Where the Jasmine Blooms. Six women hold up the book in print or digital copy and smile at their webcams. Overlaid text reads "Summer Book Club: Where the Jasmine Blooms."
The team met up for our #alubookclub discussion of @zslong.bsky.social's WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS (@fernpub.bsky.social) and praised the book for its ability to bring geopolitical conflict to level of the individuals experiencing it. For more highlights from our chat:
alllitup.ca/alu-summer-b...
A photo of writer Zeina Sleiman. She is a medium-skin toned Muslim woman, wearing a bright fuchsia hijab and a dress with ornate woven details on the belt and over the shoulders. Zeina smiles widely at the camera. An inset photo of the cover of her book Where the Jasmine Blooms is in the lower right hand corner.
"I really hope that this book gives readers a taste of what life and society is like in Lebanon."
We interviewed @zslong.bsky.social, author of our Aug #ALUbookclub pick WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS (@fernpub.bsky.social), about swapping POVs, smashing stereotypes, & more:
alllitup.ca/alu-summer-b...
Summer Book Club: August's Pick. Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman. The cover features two hands, one dropping a pomegranate into the other. There is a border of fresh jasmine flowers.
Our August #alubookclub pick is @zslong.bsky.social's debut novel, the historical fiction / political thriller / Muslim romance WHERE THE JASMINE BLOOMS. To kick things off, we chatted with @fernpub.bsky.social to share our excitement about this read.
alllitup.ca/alu-summer-b...
A send off to my first book zeina969065.substack.com/p/a-send-off...
Mosab Abu Toha wins a Pulitzer and instead of celebrating this achievement, journalists ask him to hold space for his oppressors. Hi ability to answer that question, while remaining composed comes from years of practice, of having to do it over and over again.
“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire…promoted by…Obama in his annual list of recommended books, which…provides a literary sheen that obscures Obama’s …drone assassinations and deportation of… migrants.
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Super exciting! My short story “My Father’s Soil” has been shortlisted for the CBC short story awards! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...
News is finally out! My short story “My Father’s Soil” made it to the longlist for the CBC short story award! The shortlist will be annouced next week ❤️ www.cbc.ca/books/litera...
Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman is set to release in the coming weeks. In anticipation we are giving away eBook copies to readers in the US.
The giveaway will run until March 31st.
For more information and to register visit: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @premthakker.bsky.social).
When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.
Thanks!
Ms. Magazine listed my book among the most anticipated feminist books of 2025! ❤️ #books #feminist msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...
Where the Jasmine Blooms ARCs are available on Netgalley now! You can put in a request for a reviewer copy
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
A lot of us saw this coming. Same goes for a lot of other orgs that purport lot support justice and equality
We’re almost 2 months away from the official book launch and I’m planning a few giveaways between now and then. Sign up to my newsletter for updates and check out my new website! Zeinasleimanwrites.com
The characters in my book mostly speak to each other in Arabic so there are a lot of transliterations and Arabic words sprinkled throughout. What so they mean? I’ll be sharing a few along with more in my upcoming newsletter
So grateful for these amazing endorsements for my upcoming book!
Support women legal practitioners investigating war crimes in Syria www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
This, also pre-order “Where the Jasmine Blooms”
Also, I recently finished another novel that’s set between Dubai and Toronto. Third books is also partially set in a Gulf country. Here’s a clip from a recent trip there
Cats of the Gulf. Fun fact, there’s always at least one cat on my books
