LATEST RELEASE – The Man of Middling Height by Syracuse University Press

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  • Confluences 2025: Interviewing Aiki Mira about German SFF

    I got the chance to be a host yesterday and interview Aiki Mira as part of Confluences 2025 (an international online festival celebrating science fiction and fantasy curated my French publisher Edition Hikaya). Aiki is a German Queer Future Fiction Writer from Hamburg. Their novels and short stories have won multiple awards, including the Kurd…

  • I am going to Les Utopiales AND Toronto’s Festival of Authors this year!

    TIFA invite possibility 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 proper launch for it and was hoping that my friend Hani Yakan, who is an…

  • The Man of Middling Height – Concept Overview [video]

    Google NotebookLM is an amazing learning tool. I used it to generate this short video that summarizes and explains the concept behind my latest book, The Man of Middling Height. Check it out and let me know what you think.

  • The Best of The Markaz Review, 2020–2025 Celebrates Five Years of Independent SWANA Literature and Art

    Proud to be among these authors, translators and artists, contributing a short story to this collection. Sharing Press Release by TMR The Best of The Markaz Review, 2020–2025 MONTPELLIER, SEPT. 2025 — The new book from The Markaz Review captures daily life in Gaza, Beirut, and Baghdad, among many other locales, exploring histories of struggle…

  • 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 wouldn’t believe me. Gosh, what would happen after 20 years?! wish my future…

  • The Man of Middling Height Afterword by Cheryl Toman

    Ms. Cheryl Toman, Professor of French and Chair, Modern Languages and Classics at The University of Alabama has been one of my biggest supporters for publishing the English version of The Man of Middling Height. She has been with me from the start, pointing out that Syracuse University Press rebooted their Middle East Literature in…

  • صور: حفل إشهار رواية فرح على الأرض

    أطلقنا رواية فرح على الأرض، الجزء المتمم لسلسلة الشباب الدائم، على مسرح الرينبو يوم الأربعاء الماضي حيث سُعدت بالحضور الكريم من العائلة والأصدقاء واستمتعت كالعادة بمحاورة أمواج أبو حمدة وإجابة أسئلتها حول المحاور التي تتطرق لها الرواية الأخيرة والسلسة ككل. كلي امتنان لأمواج لحبها ودعهما المتواصل لي ولكتاباتي، كذلك كل الشكر لكل من ساعدني في…

  • Now Available: The Man of Middling Height

    Finally, it’s released! Officially launched The Man of Middling Height by Syracuse University Press. My 4th published book in English, and one of my most creative work. A story imagining a parallel world where people are divided by their height, rather than sex. It was a cool though experiment, exploring the complexity of gender with…

  • حفل إشهار رواية فرح على الأرض

    يسعدني دعوتكم إلى حفل إشهار رواية فرح على الأرض يوم الأربعاء المقبل الموافق ١٣ أغسطس الساعة السادسة مساء على مسرح سينما الرينبو في جبل عمّان. فرح على الأرض الرواية الثالثة والأخيرة، المتمّمة لسلسة الشباب الدائم بعد رواية جنّة على الأرض وأمل على الأرض. عادة ما أنتظر حفل إشهار رواياتي بشوق كبير، وهذا العام، أشعر بحماس…

  • Short Story: My Choices Are My Downfall

    A new short story for me got translated by Rana Asfour and published in The Markaz Review double summer issue last week. I love this story, and love Rana’s translation of it. Here is an intro about it as appeared on TMR: What happens when a relationship forms between a human and a robot? In…