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Fave Five: LGBTQ Fiction with Arab MCs

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (Syrian)

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (Egyptian-Palestinian)

Guapa by Saleem Haddad (Unnamed)

God in Pink by Hassan Namir (Iraqi) 

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Palestinian)

Bonus: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy is set in a fictional universe, but the refugee MC’s background is based on McCarthy’s Lebanese background

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