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Fadi Zaghmout
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Jordanian feminist Scifi author of 5 novels. The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, LAILA, The Man of Middling Height, Hope on Earth.
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Fadi Zaghmout @fadizaghmout.bsky.social · Feb 3
"The Man of Middling Height is original and of great importance."—Omar Sayfo, author of Allah’s Spacious Earth

The Man of Middling Height is available for preorders on Amazon and Syracuse University Press Website.
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Looking back and thinking about the planning I put into this trip, it sounds like a crazy thing to do. I was too ambitious trying to attend two important conferences across the ocean happening at the same time, and on top of that, planning more events in the US.

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November 2025: When University Presses, Reviews, and Festivals Align
The past three weeks were joyful and eventful, filled with attending conferences in Nantes and Toronto, visiting Tucson, and connecting with friends and literary communities. Highlights include pra…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The Man of Middling Height listed among great translated literature from all over the world! 😍😍
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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So in honor of University Press Week, happening Nov. 10-14, here are 17 exemplary translated books, illustrating the ways that university presses collaborate with authors and translators to bring insights from around the world to English readers.

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Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Had a great session in Toronto’a Festival of Authors, talking about Quiet Revolutions with Palestinian Canadian author Ziyad Saadi, moderated by Samia Badih. And officially launching The Man of Middling Height.

#tifa #toronto #festivalofauthors #canada #themanofmiddlingheight #speculativefiction
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Had an interesting panel discussion about technology being our greatest friend or worst enemy with French writers Jean-Marc Ligny, Audrey Pleynet, and moderated by Jean Baret. We had a long queue, full house, and a lovely book signing session afterwards.

#lesutopiales #nantes #sciencefiction
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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At the Toronto Festival of Authors? Join @fadizaghmout.bsky.social as he discusses his book, "The Man of Middling Height," at Quiet Revolutions Sunday. festivalofauthors.ca/event/quiet-...
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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😍😍😍
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The reviews are in!

The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
reviewed by Kyle R. Garton

Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith
reviewed by Vivian Wagner

Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce
reviewed by Tristan Beiter

Link to the latest issue in our bio!
Left cover of The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq featuring a blue and dark green vaguely human shaped blobs. Right REVIEWS Quote "Overall, this novel richly exploits science fiction’s great capacity to imagine the otherwise and denaturalize what seems inevitable and natural. The adventurous analogy between height and gender will surely provoke much discussion, and—hopefully!—controversy." reviewer: Kyle R. Garton 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith featuring a diagram of a mechanical beetle with wing open. Right REVIEWS Quote "The collection also reimagines what a new “natural” world might look like in the wake of an Anthropocene apocalypse. The newly fashioned environment is certainly not the same as the one that originally existed, since it’s based almost entirely on human and mechanical intervention." reviewer: Vivian Wagner 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce featuring the side view of a person in a shirt with a lace neck and chest and a skeleton hand across the chest and a a long skeleton cameo necklace hanging from the ear. Right REVIEWS Quote "a richly alive narrative that is able to think through its ideas because of its grounding. It draws the reader in by insisting on its details—and in so doing serves as a reminder of the power of the granular in choices, communities, and storytelling." reviewer: Tristan Beiter 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Wow wow wow! This is the review I have been waiting for since I wrote this book! Comprehensive, detailed, captures all the nuances of the book, and published in one of the most important literary speculation fiction magazines! I have tears in my eyes!

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The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq
The Man of Middling Height is at its best in moments that combine theme, plot, character, and image.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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14 novels and one short story in a SF anthology. 13 years. 4 Languages. More to come!

Which ones have you read? Any favorite?

#mywritingcareer
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I am happy to see The Bride of Amman constantly appearing in world literature lists as the book to read from and about Jordan! 😍

This new book from Australia. The Global Bookshelf by Germano Vieira: A journey through 120 books from 120 lands.
October 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Happy to see an excerpt translation by Rana Asfour of my novel Hope on Earth as part of this work. It’s in the final section of the book entitled Hope. Hope for a better future for people in the area and around the world.

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October 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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SYSTEM BREACH DETECTED 🚨

Queere Perspektiven x Glitched Reality x Digital Resistance

Ready to hack the narrative?

DENIAL OF SERVICE

Pre-Order-Exemplar crasht aus dem Netz ♡

#DenialOfService #QueerCyberpunk #BookDrop

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Denial of Service - Aiki Mira | S. Fischer Verlage
Vollautomatisiert, supersmart … und tödlich. Aiki Miras visionärer SF-Thriller über die Zukunft unserer Städte. In Frankfurt am Main sind Dank der ersten...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I truly enjoyed hosting Aiki Mira about their work and German SF! Thanks Editions Hikaya for organizing this!

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#GermanSF #AikiMira #Confluences #Hikaya
Confluences 2025 - German SFF, with Aiki Mira, presented by Fadi Zaghmout
YouTube video by Association Hikaya
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September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I wanted to do both, the problem was that both take place at the same time!!!! They start on 29th Oct and conclude on 2nd of Nov! Same week! same 5 days! Across the ocean!

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I am going to Les Utopiales AND Toronto’s Festival of Authors this year!
I have been working on this since the beginning of the year. First, in January, I knew that The Man of Middling Height will be published by Syracuse University Press in August. I wanted to do a pro…
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September 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Here is the reading list for this year’s Festival's of Author.

The Man of Middling Height is in good company! 🎉

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#toronto #tifa #readinglist
TIFA 2025 Books - TIFA
Here’s your reading list for this year’s Festival. Find your new favourite book here!
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September 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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It’s announced!

The big launch for The Man of Middling Height will be on 2nd Nov, in Toronto, at Toronto Festival of Authors!

This is so exciting! If you are around, you can book your tickets now!

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Quiet Revolutions: Ziyad Saadi & Fadi Zaghmout - TIFA
Join Palestinian Canadian writer and filmmaker Ziyad Saadi and acclaimed Jordanian author and activist Fadi Zaghmout for a powerful conversation on masculinity, identity and the quiet revolutions of e...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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I like this critical review for Heaven on Earth by Nathaniel Harrington.

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#arabicscifi
Heaven on Earth / an duilleag gheal
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September 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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My heart is full! ❤️
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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I got my copies last night! And I can’t tell you how much I am happy with this production. The quality is amazing. The color is so vivid. And the story (despite my bias 😝) is a must read!

Get your copy now! It’s available on major online outlets anywhere in the world!

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September 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Proud to be among these authors, translators and artists, contributing a short story to this collection. Get your copy!

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TMR Marks Five Years With Landmark New Anthology Showcasing SWANA Voices
Cover of the new book from TMR, The Best of The Markaz Review, 2020–2025, published September 2025 on the review's 5th anniversary.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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How loyal are you to your favorite authors? Two of mine are releasing books this September. Dan Brown and Ken Follet, I never miss reading their releases!
August 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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If I had the ability to go back in time and talk to my younger self who started blogging 20 years ago, and tell him that one day he will be releasing 5 books in a single month, I know that he wouldn’t believe me.

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August 2025 Recap: 5 books releases + interviews, reviews, mentions and podcasts!
If I had the ability to go back in time and talk to my younger self who started blogging 20 years ago, and tell him that one day he will be releasing 5 books in a single month, I know that he would…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Fadi Zaghmout talks speculative fiction, blogging and his book, "The Man of Middling Height," on the Drinks with Tony Podcast. Listen here: www.drinkswithtony.com/fadi-zaghmou...
Fadi Zaghmout #325 – Drinks with Tony
Drinks with Tony
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August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Watching it back, I realize that it is not only a celebration of Fadi’s success, it is also a portrait of the Amman I came to know and love.

Thank you @filjr.bsky.social

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Video: Fadi Zaghmout’s Eternal Youth Trilogy
I had the great pleasure of visiting Fadi in Amman, Jordan, as the last book of his Eternal Life Trilogy, (Joy on Earth – Farah Ala Al Ard), was being published.  Only the first book (Heaven …
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August 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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In Shelf Awareness, @fadizaghmout.bsky.social discusses favorite books, what's on his nightstand, and his forthcoming novel, "The Man of Middling Height." www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Shelf Awareness for Friday, August 22, 2025
Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...
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August 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM