did something I haven't done in over 7 months; opened a blank word document. I forgot how healing writing a new picture book is. bismillah.

normalize using long and 'difficult' Muslim names in your picture books for your characters. Give me the Nusayba's, Abdalrahman's, Ruqayya's. Remember who your audience is.

Very telling that all the big Israel accounts are promoting this… their guy appears insane, in the debate he actually threatens me (and my kids?), and is on record saying he thinks the lives of 1.6 billion Muslims are worth less than a single cow.

Check out our lineup of books for May on the way to subscribers, ages 0-2! 🌸

Hello Feet! by Aya Khalil

Play! Play! Play! (Baby Steps) by Douglas Florian, Christiane Engel

O is for Old School: A Hip Hop Alphabet for B.I.G. Kids Who Used to be Dope by James Tyler, ella cohen

🚨Breaking; The Israeli occupation army killed my friend Iman and her children in an airstrike on their home in #Gaza City.

Help a deaf family in Gaza. They’re only about $3,000 away from their goal!

If you donate $25 or more and DM a donation receipt, I will critique a query and first chapter for you! 💛

'Today's martyrs were celebrating the ceasefire news yesterday'

I have no words anymore. 💔 #RafahUnderAttack

Happy Book Birthday to our very own Gabriele Davis! 🍑 We’re so excited your book PEACHES is in the world today. 🎉🎊🤗. Peaches is beautifully illus. by Kim Holt

Please order PEACHES wherever books are sold and request at your local library.
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✨ Happy book birthday to MAMIE TAPE FIGHTS TO GO TO SCHOOL! ✨
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It was an honor to work with Traci Huahn ✨MAMIE TAPE FIGHTS TO GO TO SCHOOL✨ on this important #aapi story in the fight for desegregation! Thank you to Phoebe Yeh & Jan Gerardi at Random House Children's Books for this opportunity & my wonderful agent Jem is OPEN to queries! !

Our main library has this awesome cafe called Same Cafe- donate any amount you can for your plate or donate your time! Toledo Library

Got to see this for the first time at the main library! Toledo Library

Saw two of my board books displayed at the main library today 😻 Toledo Library Barefoot Books

An elderly Palestinian man recites adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) as Israeli occupation forces knock down his home in the village of Al-Jawaya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of the occupied West Bank, today.

It’s launch day! Welcome Sister Friend to the world: jamilahthewriter.com/books/sister-f…
#SisterFriendBook

Update from Al Jazeera/Reuters/Israeli press: an Israeli official has indicated that Israel will not be accepting the Qatari-Egyptian ceasefire deal that Hamas accepted today.

And this is why Israel shut Al Jazeera down.

All eyes on Rafah. This is absolutely terrifying.

The fact that Israel banned Al Jazeera hours before beginning its assault on Rafah is not a coincidence.

After everything we’ve seen in the last 7 months, imagine what they’ll do when they think no one is watching.

The death sentence is sent through the sky on paper. Leave or you will die. We all know that whether they left or not, the occupation will chase and kill them. The death sentence has already been taken decades ago and the only crime is being a Palestinian.

Displaced Palestinians are not being asked to “evacuate” Rafah - they are being forcibly displaced, ethnically cleansed (again).

With ‘evacuation’ we imply that people are going somewhere safe and that they will be able to return. Neither of these are the case for Palestinians.