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