June 22nd, 20192Natasha Tynes, a Jordanian American author who lost a book deal after shaming a Black train worker for eating on a train, has sued her publisher for $13.4 million, claiming their condemnation led her to have "suicidal thoughts" and receive death threats.
Tynes filed a lawsuit against publisher Rare Bird Lit in a Los Angeles court on...
March 25th, 20190SAN DIEGO, CA — For Huda Al-Marashi, an Iraqi American and Muslim author, wife and mother, the process of writing her memoir, “First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story”, took almost 10 years to finish.
The book, which follows her story about her relationship with her husband of 22 years, was released last...
April 14th, 20170BALTIMORE —Author Susan Muaddi Darraj intersects her identities as a Palestinian and as an American to tell stories from the "third space— the space between two cultures" that ultimately shapes the characters involved in her tales.
According to Darraj, there are so many stories that could be told about the Palestinian immigrant...
