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Alaa Al-Barkawi

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✨YA Author of IN THE COUNTRY I LOVE (Peachtree Teen, Summer 2026) ✨Co-runner of QuillersSwana ✨Shia Muslim ✨Iraqi 🇮🇶 ✨Rep: Jenissa Graham @ Bookends Literary

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Thank you, George! We need this!!

23.01.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s so kind, thank you! 🥹

22.11.2024 05:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you!! ♥️♥️

21.11.2024 05:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would love to be added, too! ♥️

21.11.2024 05:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Well, hello new and old friends ♥️. I’m Alaa, a first-generation Iraqi American author. My debut novel about being Iraqi in America (and all those complicated diaspora feelings) comes out with Peachtree Teen in Summer 2026. I also co-run QuillersSWANA to help uplift other SWANA writers🧿 ✨

12.11.2024 23:57 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0

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