Fascinating and beautiful session of readings by the International Armenian Literary Alliance International Armenian Literary Alliance in solidarity with those facing genocide, featuring Nancy Kricorian Sophia Armen Mai Serhan, Mashinka Hakopian & others, partnering w Palestine Festival of Literature CC ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=VA8X3_…

From our December/January 2024 issue, Mai Serhan reviews We Call to the Eye & The Night: Love Poems (Persea Books). Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/review…

Instructions on how to contact International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judges to express how you feel, before they make judgement on South Africa Vs Israel genocide case on Thurs 11th Jan, 2024: (Process will take max 3min) Watch case live on Thu 11th on this link:

My brother and our cousins, who are Palestinian-American, were pulled off the airplane and held by airport security & police at the Minneapolis, MN (MSP) airport last night on their way home from a wedding and were not allowed to leave after questioning because a White woman

.Mai Serhan chronicles the complicated negotiations between belonging, integration, self-worth, and body shame for second-generation Palestinian women in the U.S. doi.org/10.1080/037791…

Exploring Palestinian American identity, Mai Serhan studies the memoirs of Najla Said & Suheir Hammad. She reclaims the 'permission to narrate,' shedding light on the experience of Palestinians in the U.S. Read in the Journal of Palestine Studies 📖⬇️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“From the outset,” Mai Serhan writes of Najla Said's 'Looking for Palestine.' “We encounter a series of multiple identities, or what could be called the intersection of the 'roots' and 'routes'”

“We find in Hammad’s memoir a community of mixed races united in its Otherness,” writes Mai Serhan. “In weaving her story, Hammad derives power from this realization.”

I'm giving a Creative Nonfiction workshop on Zoom starting March 11. Literary Journalism The Creative Nonfiction Novel The Lyric Essay The Personal Essay Memoir Autofiction Biography. Inbox me for details.

The conflict over Columbia U's Gaza Solidarity Encampment pits an Egyptian-born school president against a student movement largely led by Arabs and Muslims protesting Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. Goaded by Republican members of Congress and the Israel lobby,

One Pound Man by Mai Serhan, from our sold out October/November 2023 issue.

My next fiction workshop at Diwan. Sign up here: diwanegypt.com/product/fictio…

The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025 is NOW OPEN! Entries judged by Fiona Benson, Jason Allen-Paisant and Mai Serhan. Winners receive cash prizes and publication in the magazine. All profits from the prize will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-mag…

An interview with @therakhahimself for The Adroit Journal about his new novel The Dissenters, coming out this month by Graywolf Press Read here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-tw…

IALA is headed to #AWP25! 📚✨ Catch our two dynamic panels with amazing writers & visit our shared Bookfair space with Anamot Press. Stop by for signed books, goodies & lit convo! 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4bZtQy7

Join us in congratulating Mai Serhan (Mai Serhan) on her upcoming book, I Can Imagine It For Us: A Palestinian’s Daughter’s Memoir, releasing October 14th. Learn about the book, Mai, and her previous work.  Pre-order now at aucpress.com/9781649034595/.

If you’re in Cairo, join us. Registration required through this link: mailchi.mp/aucegypt.edu/b…

Congrats to Mai Serhan on the release of her new memoir, I Can Imagine It For Us! ✨👏 Published by AUC Press - @aucpress.bsky.social, the book details Serhan's search for a connection with her estranged father and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit. Learn more: bit.ly/47ci3dX

'We’re not in the rubble, but we carry it inside us. That contradiction, being physically far but emotionally tied in, is a big part of what it means to be Palestinian in exile.' An interview with Mai Serhan: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-mai-…