Feminist Giant & The Strand Present: A Pride Panel of LGBTQIA authors

Join us for a special pride event as Mona Eltahawy (author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls ) convenes a panel of LGBTQIA authors from the Middle East, North Africa and of Arab descent to discuss writing between identities. Produced with the Feminist Giant.

In Zaina Arafat’s debut novel, You Exist Too Much a young Palestinian-American woman is caught between, cultural, religious, and sexual identities.

In Zeyn Joukhadar’s magical realist novel, The Thirty Names for Nightthree generations of a Syrian family are linked to a mysterious species of bird.

Hasan Namir’s children’s book The Name I Call Myself follows, Ari a young person who doesn’t like their birth name Edward, as they grow up navigating the ins and outs of gender identity.

Randa Jarrar’s Love is An Ex-Country is a memoir of a cross-country road trip that offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body.