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Zeyn Joukhadar is the Syrian American author of the Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winning novel The Thirty Names of Night (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2020), which he also adapted as an immersive, site-specific theatre piece commissioned by Noor Theatre Company in New York City, as well as The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018), which won the 2018 Middle East Book Award. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Salon, The Paris Review,and elsewhere and has been included in anthologies such as Both/And, Letters to a Writer of Color, This Arab Is Queer, and others. They have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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	The Map of Salt and Stars 3.91 avg rating — 20,740 ratings — published 2018 — 46 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
	The Thirty Names of Night 4.02 avg rating — 5,315 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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
	Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garth Greenwell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melissa Febos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.10 avg rating — 5,671 ratings — published 2021 — 12 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
	This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mona Eltahawy, Saleem Haddad 4.40 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 2022 — 4 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
	Fit for the Gods by Jenn Northington (Editor), S. Zainab Williams (Editor), Marika Bailey 3.29 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2023 — 3 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
	Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices (Volume 21.1) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings	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
	Everything Blooms by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (Pseudonym), Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author), Sonia Ali (Foreword) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017	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
	Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology by Shelby Pinkham, Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	just femme & dandy mixtape by Zeyn Joukhadar (Goodreads Author), Gabe Montesanti, Mark Kurai it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	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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La città e l'isola. Omosessuali al confino nell'Italia fascista

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“I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

tags: empowerment, femininity, feminism, feminist, heroism, inspirational, strength, women

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“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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The Map of Salt and Stars

by Zeyn Joukhadar

15 votes, 19.5%

The Funeral Dress

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

14 votes, 18.2%

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

by Robert Dugoni

13 votes, 16.9%

The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish

13 votes, 16.9%

Home Fire

by Kamila Shamsie

11 votes, 14.3%

The Cactus

by Sarah Haywood

9 votes, 11.7%

The Constant Gardener

by John le Carré

2 votes, 2.6%

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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

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“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“It was the kind of love you have for someone because you'll die inside if you don't love something.”
― Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air

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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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