Israel is using a 'no war, no peace' Lebanonisation model in Gaza, analysts say. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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

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...

"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...

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. lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...

Super exciting! My short story “My Father’s Soil” has been shortlisted for the CBC short story awards! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

I launched my newsletter yesterday. Check it out. zeina969065.substack.com?r=2ia18l&utm...

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.

Ms. Magazine listed my book among the most anticipated feminist books of 2025! ❤️ #books #feminist msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...

Very cool to see my book among the list of CBC reads to check out this Spring! #canlit #books

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

Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman is now available for pre-order. Use code SP15 at fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/forthc... for 15% off all spring pre-orders.

My upcoming book is on sale! Pre-order now and use this code for 15% off

I donated a few copies of my upcoming novel to this auction. Check out all the other great stuff! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I’ll be sharing a few short backstories to some of the other characters in my upcoming novel. Sign up to my mailing list to be the first ones to receive them! Zeinasleimanwrites.com

I wrote this short story some time ago and it’s basically a partial prologue to my upcoming novel. Read about Yasmine’s mother retuning to Beirut in the 90s. www.zeinasleimanwrites.com/other-writin...

Dehumanised in the genocide

Proud to have contributed a chapter to this stunning anthology and to be among such great company of Palestinian writers. Edited by the talented Susan Muaddi Darraj Pre-order your copy here: palestinewrites.org/product/ask-...

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state. 🧵

Time to sing it again and again and again. #FreeSyria youtu.be/xCS8SsFOBAI?...

My advice to journos covering Syria: this is a complex story to tell with a criminal regime, bad actors, foreign influence & uncertainty of what's to come. Tell complex stories, but center your stories in the agency of Syrians. It's their story, their country, their freedom.

The news coming out of Syria fills me with a mix of hope and dread. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

* Cover Reveal * My book has been available for pre-orders for about a month now, so this is a bit late. Follow Reem and Yasmine as they navigate family, love and politics in 2006 Lebanon.

The iconic Palestinian writer and teacher Refaat Alareer was murdered by Israel one year ago today. Please read the stunning remembrance from @mohamhawish.bsky.social that we ran in @thenation.com in October. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

For Read Palestine week, take a listen (or read) this short story I narrated by Beesan Odeh podcastle.org/2024/11/05/p...

24hr global reading for Palestine has started. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/RxJNpyX...

Hey! My book is in there and in good company!

Wordless words

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o... If you read one thing this week, read this profile of this unthinkably brave and stalwart man.

My website is officially live! Sign up to my mailing list for bookish news and stay tuned for a discount code on pre-orders of my book! Www.zeinasleimanwrites.com #books #palestinianstories

Poetry in the genocide

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,110,195!

I’ve logged back in to post Marcellus Williams poems. You can read a few here.

Marcellus Williams’ last statement