Zeyn Joukhadar
Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels The Map of Salt and Stars (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2018) and The Thirty Names of Night (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2020). His work appears in Salon, the Paris Review Daily, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. The Map of Salt and Stars was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature and a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards finalist in Historical Fiction.
Reading List
The Thirty Names of Night <br>with an essay by the author
Love Letters to Those Who Came Before Me I was born in New York City, but I didn’t learn about lower Manhattan’s Little Syria neighborhood until years after I left. History was partially to blame: in 1946, the city took the thriving Arab neighborhood once known as the Syrian Quarter from its residents by eminent […]