Velvet Air of Gaza: A Normal School Roundtable Authors Deema Shehabi, Susan Muaddi Darraj, and Lena Mubsutina discuss the place of art and aesthetics during Gaza’s genocide
Baladi Interview about Lena’s debut and upcoming novels as well as what it means to be marginalized in both life and literature. See video below for full interview.
Lena Mahmoud in “Space and Representation in the Literary World” (digital roundtable), part of Miracle Monocle‘s Spring 2022 issue
Amreekiya wins an Arab American Book Award
Dr. Nancy El Gendy interviews Lena for Michigan Quarterly Review about Amreekiya, mixed and hyphenated identities, and the growth and transformation of Arab American literature
Amreekiya is one of Foreword’s “Four Phenomenal Debut Novels.”
See feature on Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s “November & December Bookmarks: 24 New Books by Asian Writers”
Starred review in Library Journal’s October 15, 2018 issue
Read review of Amreekiya in Foreword Reviews
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