Press/Reviews

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.

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”

Read author’s Q & A about Amreekiya

Starred review in Library Journal’s October 15, 2018 issue

Read review of Amreekiya on I am, Indeed

Read review of Amreekiya in Foreword Reviews

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