Today is the official 🇺🇸 North America 🇨🇦 publication day for THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY! 🎉

That’s right, this gorgeous book that I happened to curate & edit is now available in all good bookstores across the US + Canada! If your fave bookstore or library don’t stock it, get them to order it in for you 🙌

Happy publication day to THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY! 🎉

I’m beyond thrilled to see my new book baby – a follow-up (but not a sequel per se) to This Arab Is Queer and published by Saqi Books – finally make its debut in the world 🫶

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Almost here! Just one more week until my next book makes its debut in the world! So excited, not that I’m counting down or anything 🙈

Here are the confirmed release dates:
- UK 🇬🇧/ EU 🇪🇺: September 18
- USA 🇺🇸/ Canada 🇨🇦: October 14
- Australia 🇦🇺: November 1

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Italia! I’m coming your way for a mini-book tour for Arabə e Queer!

Last September, the Tamu Edizioni published the Italian translation of my anthology This Arab Is Queer. With Pride Month in full swing, I’m excited to be heading to Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Turin and Rome to talk about the book! 🧿🙌

Your boy was recently published in another book! So proud to have contributed a chapter in ‘Ask the Night for a Dream’, edited by @susanmd.bsky.social & published by Palestine Writes Press. My piece is a letter to my younger self, a tribute to my dad, and one of the most personal things I’ve written

I'm SO excited to be working on This Queer Arab Family, a new anthology with @saqibooks.bsky.social to be published Sept 2025🧿
 
Are you a queer Arab writer with something to say about family, community, safe spaces, etc? Submit something to our open call!

Guidelines: saqibooks.com/2025/02/open...

Proud to have contributed a chapter to this stunning anthology and to be among such great company of Palestinian writers.

Edited by the talented Susan Muaddi Darraj

Pre-order your copy here: palestinewrites.org/product/ask-...

It’s #ReadPalestineWeek, folks. I’ve just started this, a new reissue of Edward Said’s seminal The Question of Palestine via @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. As Edward’s daughter Najla recently told @amkdurie.bsky.social in a LitHub i/view, readers on Palestine ought to go back to the source material👇

Quick intro:

I’m Elias (pronounced ilyas), born/raised in Sydney to 🇵🇸&🇱🇧 parents; now living in London.

My background is in journalism and I’m working on a novel. I’m also the editor of This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers (Saqi Books), available in all booksellers worldwide ✌️

god bless the automated bot accounts lol

It’s happening!

can’t get over how this London, UK, Instagram travel page went and posted about a train journey for London, Canada

Bluesky welcoming new arrivals from Twitter

Hi! I’m coming to Philadelphia to talk about This Arab Is Queer as part of the Palestine Writes literature festival in late September! See you there? 😊

Event details: https://palestinewrites.org/p-events/this-arab-is-queer/

“chocolate hummos”

This Arab is Queer spotted in yet another Aesop Queer Library pop-up - this time in Brighton! Happy Pride 😊

just when you think all those woeful appropriations of Levantine food couldn’t get any worse, some random at Ocado magazine came up with this supposedly “fun” take on tabbouleh

the staff at trader joe’s meeting to decide on a new dessert hummos flavour

lmao