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Zeyn Joukhadar

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Zeyn Joukhadar is the Syrian American author of the Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winning novel The Thirty Names of Night (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2020), which he also adapted as an immersive, site-specific theatre piece commissioned by Noor Theatre Company in New York City, as well as The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018), which won the 2018 Middle East Book Award. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Salon, The Paris Review,and elsewhere and has been included in anthologies such as Both/And, Letters to a Writer of Color, This Arab Is Queer, and others. They have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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Zeyn Joukhadar This past spring, I announced publicly that I am transgender, that I am transitioning, and that I now use the name Zeyn and he/him pronouns. My new na…moreThis past spring, I announced publicly that I am transgender, that I am transitioning, and that I now use the name Zeyn and he/him pronouns. My new name will be on the third printing of the paperback.(less)
Zeyn Joukhadar Thank you Sydney! Most of my inspiration for the book simply came from watching the war unfold as a Syrian American person and knowing people personal…moreThank you Sydney! Most of my inspiration for the book simply came from watching the war unfold as a Syrian American person and knowing people personally who were affected by the war. I've talked in more detail about what spurred me to write the book in some of my interviews below, including my interview on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/...), UConn Alumni Magazine (https://magazine.uconn.edu/2018/09/25...#), and Bookreporter (https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/...). Thank you for reading, and definitely keep an eye out for a future book! ;)(less)
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“I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.”
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
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“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
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