Monday, April 13, 8pm: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts a new fiction showcase featuring acclaimed authors Hannah Lillith Assadi, Nora Lange, Andrew Martin, @giadascodellaro.bsky.social, and @deenaelg.bsky.social! www.facebook.com/share/14YBdR... #free #crownheights
Deena ElGenaidi
@deenaelg.bsky.social
debut novel DUST SETTLES NORTH out 2025 pre-order: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dust-settles-north-deena-elgenaidi/21660445 words in vulture, nylon, salon, catapult, insider, longreads, & more deenaelgenaidi.com & free palestine 🇵🇸
One week from tonight, join us on Thursday, January 15th 7:30pm as we welcome Jaquira Diaz, @deenaelg.bsky.social , Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and @jenpercy.bsky.social to the Pete's stage! 🔥 With your hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social and books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...
A Story of Family's Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt - Electric Literature
In Deena ElGenaidi's "Dust Settles North," characters witness the crumbling of government and family systems
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Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
For People Magazine, I wrote about what makes for “good” representation and the often complicated nature of Muslim identity people.com/what-is-good...
What Is 'Good' Muslim Representation in Fiction? And Who Gets to Decide? (Exclusive)
"As a Muslim American myself, I know that our identities can be complicated," writes author Deena ElGenaidi, whose new book 'Dust Settles North' features Egyptian American characters
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thank you to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for letting me make a playlist for my debut novel, Dust Settles North!
"This playlist features both English- and Arabic-language songs to represent the dichotomy of the two cultures and what it’s like living in between." @deenaelg.bsky.social shared a playlist for her debut novel Dust Settles North at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/06/d...
So if you're looking for a new book to read this fall, check out our conversation and read @deenaelg.bsky.social Deena's debut! #booksky #podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Episode 16 | Find A Lovely Book with Deena ElGenaidi
Podcast Episode · Find a Lovely Life: A Self-Love Journey Podcast · 10/03/2025 · 41m
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I got to interview my lovely client @deenaelg.bsky.social about her writing process, our submission journey, and what we love about this book. We even talk about how Zain and Hannah navigate #selflove on their own journeys. #booksky #podcast youtu.be/ZR9SazOgBpk?...
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We're celebrating the launch of DUST SETTLES NORTH by @deenaelg.bsky.social on the podcast! A beautiful debut about two siblings navigating their mother's grief between two worlds: Egypt and the United States. #booksky #podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6Cp1...
Episode 16 | Find A Lovely Book with Deena ElGenaidi
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“Almost immediately the grief breaks down those rules, and you see the systems starting to crumble.”
A Story of Family's Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt - Electric Literature
In Deena ElGenaidi's "Dust Settles North," characters witness the crumbling of government and family systems
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“A lot of religious communities have these rules... & want to project this image to the world that they’re following them while they have this whole secret life where they’re doing things that don’t align with the religion.” — @deenaelg.bsky.social jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/rule-break...
rule-breaking while muslim: deena elgenaidi in conversation with jeanna kadlec
deena's debut DUST SETTLES NORTH is out today
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Deena ElGenaidi (@deenaelg.bsky.social) and Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal speak on Egyptian politics, grief as plot, and intentionally othering the English language.
A Story of Family's Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt - Electric Literature
In Deena ElGenaidi's "Dust Settles North," characters witness the crumbling of government and family systems
buff.ly
i loved getting to talk to my friend (and writers’ group member) @deenaelg.bsky.social about being culturally, but not religiously, muslim, and how that informed her debut novel DUST SETTLES NORTH, out today wherever books are sold! jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/rule-break...
rule-breaking while muslim: deena elgenaidi in conversation with jeanna kadlec
deena's debut DUST SETTLES NORTH is out today
jeannakadlec.substack.com
Happy #bookbirthday to @deenaelg.bsky.social's debut, DUST SETTLES NORTH! If you're looking for a heartfelt story about two siblings navigating grief, this one is for you! 🩷 🧡 @binderybooks.bsky.social @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social #booksky
Counting down to 9/30 🥳 @deenaelg.bsky.social
While in NYC, @loveleemonicaa got to celebrate with Deena ElGenaidi at lunch! 🥰 We're so excited for @deenaelg's debut next week! Make sure you add DUST SETTLES NORTH to your #tbr this fall! 🧡 🩷 #clients #literaryagency #authorsofig #dustsettlesnorth
I don’t post on here very often, mostly because I forget bluesky even exists, but my debut novel is coming out on Tuesday! If you’re in NYC, come to my book launch on Sep 30th at 7pm. And if you’re not, it would mean so much to me if you could preorder a copy 💙 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Book Launch at Umbra: Deena ElGenaidi - Dust Settles North
Book launch of Dust Settles North by Deena ElGenaidi, at Umbra in Bushwick. Deena will be joined in conversation by Zaina Arafat.
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A week from today, @deenaelg.bsky.social’s debut will be out in the world. I cannot wait for everyone to see how special this book is. 🥲 #debut #booksky Preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/dust...
For @electricliterature.com I interviewed author Hala Alyan about her new memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home
Hala Alyan discusses her new memoir of addiction, surrogacy, and resistance. (@deenaelg.bsky.social )
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
Why would anyone who can avoid it come to the US now? Heartbreaking. Pointless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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if we accept the conflation of property damage with violence, we surrender a valuable tool for making our displeasure known. destroying a car (for example...) is not equivalent to hurting a person, and don't let them pretend it is.
current read: Dust Settles North by @deenaelg.bsky.social This one releases Sept 2025 with Bindery & Boundless Press. It's one of those books you really can't put down. It's genuinely getting in the way of my work day, I need to know what happens next to these disaster siblings
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
Hello I’m teaching a 5-week online fiction workshop with Murphy Writing at Stockton University. Registration is open! murphywriting.com/workshops/fr...
From Spark to Story: A Fiction Workshop
Join us for this five-week online fiction workshop. Write to inspiring prompts, get insightful feedback and connect with a supportive community of writers. Led by Jade Jones.
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From literary crime dramas to meditations on loneliness to firey feminist essays, here's what our resident feminist know-it-all @karlajstrand.com is looking forward to reading in 2025:
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 - Ms. Magazine
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
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meant to post this a few days ago, but sometimes i forget bluesky exists… My book was included on @msmagazine.com’s list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Thank you so much to @karlajstrand.com for including me amongst all these incredible authors! msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a...
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 - Ms. Magazine
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
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some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...
48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated
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