April is ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
Reading List
Adult Nonfiction and Biography
Bethlehem / Fadi Kattan
But You Don’t Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging / Hala Gorani
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora / Wendy Pearlman
Keep It Zesty: A Celebration of Lebanese Flavors & Culture from Edy’s Grocer / Edy Massih
Adult Fiction by Arab American Authors
Between Two Moons / Aisha Abdel Gawad
The Daughters of Izdihar / Hadeer Elsbai
Enter Ghost / Isabella Hammad
Too Soon / Betty Shamieh
Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction
Home Is Not a Country / Safia Elhillo
Balcony on the Moon / Ibtisam Barakat
Don’t Look Back / Achut Deng and Keely Hutton
From Here: A Memoir / Luma Mufleh
Mirage / Somaiya Daud
Juvenile Nonfiction and Biography
Arab Arab All Year Long! / Cathy Camper; illustrated by Sawsan Chalabi
Hope Is an Arrow / Cory McCarthy; illustrated by Ekua Holmes
My Name Is Bana / Bana Alabed; illustrated by Nez Riaz
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky / Zahra Marwan
Juvenile Fiction
The Green Bicycle / Haifaa Al Mansour
The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story / Aya Khalil; illustrated by Rashin Kheiriye
Remembering Mom’s Kubbat Halab / Medeia Sharif; illustrated by Paran Kim