Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

For People Magazine, I wrote about what makes for “good” representation and the often complicated nature of Muslim identity people.com/what-is-good...

thank you to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for letting me make a playlist for my debut novel, Dust Settles North!

So if you're looking for a new book to read this fall, check out our conversation and read @deenaelg.bsky.social Deena's debut! #booksky #podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

I got to interview my lovely client @deenaelg.bsky.social about her writing process, our submission journey, and what we love about this book. We even talk about how Zain and Hannah navigate #selflove on their own journeys. #booksky #podcast youtu.be/ZR9SazOgBpk?...

We're celebrating the launch of DUST SETTLES NORTH by @deenaelg.bsky.social on the podcast! A beautiful debut about two siblings navigating their mother's grief between two worlds: Egypt and the United States. #booksky #podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6Cp1...

“Almost immediately the grief breaks down those rules, and you see the systems starting to crumble.”

“A lot of religious communities have these rules... & want to project this image to the world that they’re following them while they have this whole secret life where they’re doing things that don’t align with the religion.” — @deenaelg.bsky.social jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/rule-break...

Deena ElGenaidi (@deenaelg.bsky.social) and Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal speak on Egyptian politics, grief as plot, and intentionally othering the English language.

i loved getting to talk to my friend (and writers’ group member) @deenaelg.bsky.social about being culturally, but not religiously, muslim, and how that informed her debut novel DUST SETTLES NORTH, out today wherever books are sold! jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/rule-break...

Happy pub day @deenaelg.bsky.social! 🩷🧡 #booksky #newreleasetuesday

Happy #bookbirthday to @deenaelg.bsky.social's debut, DUST SETTLES NORTH! If you're looking for a heartfelt story about two siblings navigating grief, this one is for you! 🩷 🧡 @binderybooks.bsky.social @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social #booksky

Counting down to 9/30 🥳 @deenaelg.bsky.social

I don’t post on here very often, mostly because I forget bluesky even exists, but my debut novel is coming out on Tuesday! If you’re in NYC, come to my book launch on Sep 30th at 7pm. And if you’re not, it would mean so much to me if you could preorder a copy 💙 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

A week from today, @deenaelg.bsky.social’s debut will be out in the world. I cannot wait for everyone to see how special this book is. 🥲 #debut #booksky Preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/dust...

For @electricliterature.com I interviewed author Hala Alyan about her new memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

Why would anyone who can avoid it come to the US now? Heartbreaking. Pointless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

if we accept the conflation of property damage with violence, we surrender a valuable tool for making our displeasure known. destroying a car (for example...) is not equivalent to hurting a person, and don't let them pretend it is.

current read: Dust Settles North by @deenaelg.bsky.social This one releases Sept 2025 with Bindery & Boundless Press. It's one of those books you really can't put down. It's genuinely getting in the way of my work day, I need to know what happens next to these disaster siblings

@ kendrick lamar do one about schumer

i’ve BEEN saying this

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Hello I’m teaching a 5-week online fiction workshop with Murphy Writing at Stockton University. Registration is open! murphywriting.com/workshops/fr...

From literary crime dramas to meditations on loneliness to firey feminist essays, here's what our resident feminist know-it-all @karlajstrand.com is looking forward to reading in 2025:

meant to post this a few days ago, but sometimes i forget bluesky exists… My book was included on @msmagazine.com’s list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Thank you so much to @karlajstrand.com for including me amongst all these incredible authors! msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

Thank you so much to @rokwon.bsky.social & @electriclit.bsky.social for including my book on this list!! electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

If you’re reading this, give that job the bare minimum today 🤌🏽

so much discourse about this healthcare ceo when really we need less talk and more murdering billionaires!

Please find threads here for: New accounts from Gaza: Common questions about Gazan fundraising: Accounts from Gaza you can follow/ help:

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Khalil. Khalil and his wife Noreen have three children, Mohammed, Yassin and Ghaith. They lost their home in Rafah. Mohammed has hepatitis and 2nd degree burns and they really need assistance for his care and basic survival needs.

the menswear guy referenced @percish.bsky.social go follow or ur stupid

I should probably also talk about my book on here: my debut novel, DUST SETTLES NORTH, about two Egyptian American siblings dealing with the aftermath of their mother’s death during a post-revolutionary Egypt, comes out in 2025! You can preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/dust...

2022 deena wouldn’t be caught dead here