Celebrating Eid at Home

My second Personal Essay for We Need Diverse Books One of the biggest honors of my writing career was working on the We Need Diverse Books blog team. My second essay for WNDB was about the first Eid under the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a comfort to express my thoughts and experiences with the WNDB

NetGalley Professional Reader

” Stay tuned for my first book review blog post for NetGalley this Sunday! What awesome unreleased book could I be reviewing? 3 guesses: I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella Love from A to Z by SK Ali Internment by Samira Ahmed Comment below with your guess! 🙂 Thanks, Shireen

NaNoWrimo Blog post: Follow the Rabbit

I’m excited and grateful that I blogged for NaNoWriMo! I love their site and have benefited from their advice, so I’m happy they responded to my ideas. I feel validated as a writer. My blog post has my tips on traditionally publishing a book, based on my experience writing and publishing my refugee story “Rabbi