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1 month ago | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content interviews "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" explodes the myth of the West’s moral superiority Omar El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is a timely account of a severance from the West and its systems that have long betrayed espoused values. “The dead dig wells in the living,” El Akkad writes at the end of the prologue, foreshadowing the narrative to come—of contending with the harrowing reality where the...
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
mebusiness.ae | Bareerah Ghani
Forest of Noise: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha’s new poetry book زايد وراشد (التفكير المستنير) الشعراء المخضرمون.. جسور وصل شعرية بين الماضي والحاضر اكتشف موهبته مع الريس عمر حرب ولمع نجمه في الممر.. محطات في حياة عمر زهران محبوب الجميع الذي كرس حياته لأعمال الخير..
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content interviews "Forest of Noise" captures the scope of the ongoing genocide in Palestine and shows a ceasefire is not enough Mosab Abu Toha’s second poetry collection, Forest of Noise, is a heart-wrenching account of life in Gaza, under the tightening grip of the Israeli Occupation. Abu Toha morphs his stories in verse, into a range of forms. Some written as letters from Gaza, detailing the minutiae of everyday life under siege, “Children feel petrified at night… Grandfather has...
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Bareerah Ghani
Zara Chowdhary’s The Lucky Ones is a devastating, timely memoir about survival, reclamation and what it means to exist on the margins of society and within your own familial unit. Zara speaks to us, raw and unfiltered, about growing up as a young muslim girl in Ahmedabad, India, in the aftermath of a train being burned.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content Interviews The author of "Fire Exit" discusses where the politics of indigeneity went wrong and how to write stories about it Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a poignant meditation on belonging, identity and family. The story follows Charles Lamosway, who lives across Maine’s Penobscot Reservation where he was raised by his mother, Louise, and stepfather, Frederick. While his mother could stay on the reservation because she married a Native man, Charles couldn’t....
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content interviews The author of "Someone Like Us" discusses the anxiety of being an immigrant and writing minority stories ethically Dinaw Mengestu’s novel Someone Like Us is about grief, about attempting to comprehend loss because of exile, because of physical and emotional distances that often fracture our ability to truly understand our loved ones. The novel’s narrator, lovingly called Mamush by his family, returns home to Washington D.C. and finds that a beloved father-figure,...
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Bareerah Ghani
interviews The Palestinian American poet discusses her new collection "The Moon That Turns You Back" and remaining steadfast in the face of erasure Palestinian American writer and poet Hala Alyan’s latest poetry collection is an inventive play with language and form as she writes into grief, infertility and a familial legacy fraught with the trauma of displacement and exile. Hala is warm when our call first connects and I launch into a confession: I’m intimidated by poets. She laughs and I...
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content conversations Her novel "The River, The Town" is a portrait of Pakistani lives relegated to the margins by capitalism Farah Ali’s debut novel The River, The Town is a haunting portrait of lives relegated to the margins by capitalism and its resulting byproduct: the inequitable distribution of resources. The world of the novel centers two places, the Town and the City, and the narrative focus, in typical Farah-Ali-fashion, is on people. Farah tells me her recurring fascination...
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content conversations The author of "Evil Eye" isn't afraid of being cancelled Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye is a captivating, heart wrenching novel about navigating intergenerational trauma, and finding your identity in a culture where women are not perceived beyond the roles they perform in service of others. Yara, a Palestinian American young woman, spends her days stretching herself thin as she takes care of her two daughters, fulfills her responsibilities as a graphic designer and art...
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Bareerah Ghani
Skip to content conversations Aisha Abdel Gawad’s novel "Between Two Moons" asks what does resistance look like for Arab American women Aisha Abdel Gawad’s debut, Between Two Moons, is a striking novel about being an immigrant and Muslim in post-9/11 America, about battling the blasé of youth with the burdens of womanhood. It’s June. Muslims in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn are ready to welcome with fervor the holy month of Ramadan. Twins, Amira and Lina, are only half prepared for the hunger and...
