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Celebrate Arab-American Heritage Month


by Katherine Decker

Did you know that April is National Arab-American Heritage Month? We’re celebrating here at the Library with a list of books and other media. Click the links below to check out these titles, or stop by the Library and see our display in person next to the Reference Desk! Visit the Arab American Foundation website for learn more and discover resources about Arab American Heritage.

Adult Fiction
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

Adult Graphic Novels
It Won’t Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Adult Nonfiction
When Magic Failed: a Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West by Fouad Ajami

A Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan

Children’s and Young Adult Books

Farah Rocks Fifth Grade by Susan Muaddi Darrej

A Kid’s Guide to Arab American History by Yvonne Wakim Dennis

Baba, What Does My Name Mean? by Rifk Ebeid

Huda F Cares by Huda Fahmy

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi

Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza

The Arabic Quilt by Aya Khalil

Behind My Doors by Hena Khan

Hope is an Arrow by Cory McCarthy