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Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Thirty Names of Night, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award, and The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a Goodreads Choice Awards and Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize finalist. His work has appeared in the Kink anthology, Salon, The Paris Review, [PANK], and elsewhere, and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar guest edited Mizna's 2020 Queer + Trans Voices issue, serves on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), and mentors emerging writers of color with the Periplus Collective. ...more

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	The Map of Salt and Stars 3.92 avg rating — 20,421 ratings — published 2018 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirty Names of Night 4.02 avg rating — 5,217 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garth Greenwell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melissa Febos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.10 avg rating — 5,572 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mona Eltahawy, Saleem Haddad 4.40 avg rating — 1,012 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fit for the Gods by Jenn Northington (Editor), S. Zainab Williams (Editor), Marika Bailey 3.28 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices (Volume 21.1) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Blooms by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (Pseudonym), Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author), Sonia Ali (Foreword) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology by Shelby Pinkham, Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	just femme & dandy mixtape by Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author), Gabe Montesanti, Mark Kurai it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Écotransféminismes: Pour des écologies transféministes (French Edition)

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Against the Romance of Community

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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

tags: empowerment, femininity, feminism, feminist, heroism, inspirational, strength, women

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“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.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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The Map of Salt and Stars

by Zeyn Joukhadar

15 votes, 19.5%

The Funeral Dress

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

14 votes, 18.2%

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

by Robert Dugoni

13 votes, 16.9%

The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish

13 votes, 16.9%

Home Fire

by Kamila Shamsie

11 votes, 14.3%

The Cactus

by Sarah Haywood

9 votes, 11.7%

The Constant Gardener

by John le Carré

2 votes, 2.6%

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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

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“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“It was the kind of love you have for someone because you'll die inside if you don't love something.”
― Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air

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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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