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Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training, and a domestic abuse victim’s advocate by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the U.S. as a result of the Gulf war in 1990. She earned a master’s degree in Human Factors Engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Pursuing her true passion for creative writing, Lilas brings her professional interest and her Middle Eastern background together in her novels.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 271 ratings · 54 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bitter Almonds 3.91 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2015 — 11 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
	Shadows of Damascus 4.42 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
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Out With The Old, In With The New

As 2020 is drawing to an end, I always look for hope going forward into 2021. For what's a new year if not not a chance for a new beginning?

I'm excited to announce the re-release of my first novel Shadows of Damascus through a new publisher, Rose Gold Publishing, LLC in a new cover design available in e-book and paperback editions from Amazon and Barnes & Noble

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“Every problem has a solution.”
― Lilas Taha, Shadows of Damascus

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“You can't undo a feeling, can you? You just have to let it through until you get used to it, and it stops being foreign.”
― Lilas Taha, Shadows of Damascus

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“Sometimes, we inflict misery on others no matter how hard we try not to.”
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