What an fun day at Dallas Is Lit! 2026 📚✨I had the honor of being part of this year’s Book & Author Fair as the author of Drummers and Dreamers:…
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a short novel that behaves like a pressure chamber. It is emotionally heavy, deeply unsettling, and engineered to sustain a haunting tension long after the final page.…
Donna Tartt’s The Secret History is one of those novels that creates a sealed atmosphere and locks you inside it. From the first pages, I felt the chill of Vermont,…
On the surface, To Have and to Have More is a story set in an elite boarding school, centered on a complicated friendship between two American girls from radically different…
Bringing "Drummers and Dreamers" to life has been incredibly rewarding. In researching, I found my way back to emblematic voices of Aita—Fatna Bent Lhoucine, and Bouchaib El Bidaoui, who often…
Although I usually prefer reading the words on the page, a season of long drives led me to the audiobook of My Friends, narrated by Hisham Matar himself. I am…
While Trump announced the ceasefire two days ago, the protests continue, because, an advocacy group stated, "it ain't over, until the Palestinians say so". Just as it didn't start on…
Writing my book has been a journey far beyond words on a page. It began simply — as a story I felt compelled to tell — but along the way,…
Since late September 2025, thousands of Moroccan youth have taken to the streets of Casablanca, Rabat, Agadir, Oujda, and other cities. This happened just as I am preparing to publish…
I was born in a North African immigrant family in France, where, from a very young age, I faced racial abuse, physical and verbal, sometimes from teachers. It came as…