Ghassan Zeineddine

May 15, 2024 | metrotimes.com | Edward Salem |Ghassan Zeineddine

West Bank, 2002Military jeep lights whirl orange in the night. Neon buzzes over an empty arcade. Stray dogs scatter. I stretch out at my family’s farthest olive grove, the ground cool on my back. I turn my face into crumbs of dirt. I smell the earth, and make myself smell of it. In the night-black hills, I take off all of my clothes and let the air stroke my ass, pressing my body against bark until my skin begins to itch.

May 15, 2024 | metrotimes.com | Ghassan Zeineddine

December 16, 2023. My wife, Rana, and our two daughters have gathered with dozens of others in Market Square Park in Cleveland for the demonstration, our first one as a family. It’s cold and windy, the gray sky fading into dusk. A middle-aged man with a keffiyeh wrapped around his neck waves a Palestinian flag from a long, extended pole. Palestinian flags ripple in every corner of the square.

Feb 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Ghassan Zeineddine |Dave Eggers |Dolly Alderton |Percival L. Everett

Amerie’s Book ClubThe book: Dearborn by Ghassan ZeineddineOur reviewer says: "Zeineddine’s striking debut collection details an endearing cast living in the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan.... This genuine offering speaks as much to the heart as the head." Read more.

Nov 17, 2023 | powells.com | Hilary Leichter |Ghassan Zeineddine |C Zhang |Lauren Groff

Best Nonfiction of 2023 | Best Graphic Novels of 2023 | Best Horror of 2023 | Best Romance of 2023 | Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2023 | Best Kids' and YA of 20232023 was such a great year for fiction! We had the hardest time narrowing down our list of the best fiction books of the year, but after much debate, we settled on these 23 (an appropriate number for 2023, we decided).

Sep 16, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Ghassan Zeineddine

Each of the stories in Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection, DEARBORN, connects different people with particular dates and causes for their immigration to America. They show the immigrants creating their new lives in Michigan, specifically Dearborn, a city of more than 100,000 and home to the Ford Motor Company. Although the population is around 50% of Arab nationality, no one of Arab heritage holds a position of leadership.