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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 11h

My 80-something-year-old uncle writes text messages like they're letters.

I really miss letters. 📧

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Majda Gama (She/Her) @majda.bsky.social · 1d

Heck of a week for books! Look at these lovelies from #JihyunYun, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social & @emanquotah.bsky.social

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 12h

My college linguistics prof was obsessed with curse-word infixation!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 1d

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The Night Is Not for You

Check out The Night Is Not for You - "[A] wonderfully chilling and entirely immersive feminist horror story." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) When her sense of safety is shatter...

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 1d

THE NIGHT IS NOT FOR YOU is out!

This spooky novel is inspired by folk traditions of the Arabian Peninsula and the Maldives, rural SW Saudi, psychological suspense, and our effed up world.

@orbitbooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @hachetteaudio.bsky.social

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 4d

Fright Girl fall! What a cool collection of books to be a part of.

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 6d

It's here! @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and I have compiled our Fall 2025 reading list, filled with books we can't wait to read this autumn and beyond. What's on your reading list?

Fright Girl Fall: New Releases We’re Pumped For

It’s fall, y’all! Spooky season is upon us, and we’ve put together a list of several new releases — several scary, some not so much — that we’re excited for this…

frightgirlsummer.com

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 7d

TFW you're less than a week from publication

#thenightisnotforyou

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 8d

Build your @spookyseason TBR with these #horror new releases:

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@markwaddell.bsky.social
@jennykiefer.com
@angelaslatter.bsky.social
@johnhornor.bsky.social
@christaqua.bsky.social
@emanquotah.bsky.social
@kaychronister.bsky.social
@pickyourpotions.bsky.social

Build your @spookyseason TBR with these #horror new releases:

Herculine - Grace Byron

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - Mark Waddell

Crafting for Sinners - Jenny Kiefer

The Cold House - Angela Slatter

The Night That Finds Us All - John Hornor Jacobs

Atlas of Unknowable Things - McCormick Templeman

How to Fake a Haunting - Christa Carmen

The Descent - Christian Francis

Quantum Nightmares - Jose M. Rodriguez Jr.

The Night Is Not for You - Eman Quotah

Thin Places - Kay Chronister

I Bought a Haunted Summer Camp - Sam Whittaker

Sister Creatures - Laura Venita Green

NightBorn - Theresa Cheung

Savage Blooms - S. T. Gibson

Vampires at Sea - Lindsay Merbaum

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 8d

I got some fantastic #bookmail at work today!! Both of these came from @orbitbooks.bsky.social
from the new Run For It
imprint!! Thank you so much!! I’m so excited to read these books by Beatrice Winifred Iker
and @emanquotah.bsky.social
they sound so good!! #books

The night is not for you book by Eman Quotah I’ll make a spectacle of you book by Beatrice Winifred Iker

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 9d

My husband and I saw it last night and enjoyed it a lot! Benicio del Toro ... so good!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 14d

It's true.

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats on the gorgeous cover!

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Majda Gama (She/Her) @majda.bsky.social · 15d

Alhamdulillah!

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15d

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Egyptian political dissident, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt

Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer a...

www.democracynow.org

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, wow, this is fantastic news!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

No, there is not widespread support for “political violence.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Why Support for Political Violence Is Not as High as It May Seem

www.nytimes.com

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

When your kids are in elementary school and you have a day off, don’t tell THEM. Once, I took my birthday off and my daughter who was in second grade at the time faked being sick so she could spend time with me which was super sweet, but … so I made her stay in bed with me while I wrote AS PLANNED

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

Natalia shares my editor in the UK and I blurbed it!

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Majda Gama (She/Her) @majda.bsky.social · 19d

Recorded my edition of the Fall for the Book podcast today, look at this fantastic program! I’m out in December but September is out now so give Natalia Theodoridou a listen, and read Sour Cherry!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

Sour Cherry is so good!

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

It really is brilliant

Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 18d

A beautiful meditation on her Baba, belonging and the Beautiful Game from Rasha Shaath.

I Wish I’d Inherited Baba’s Sense of Belonging - Electric Literature

After his death, I realized being Palestinian and Saudi could exist as a refuge outside of politics and perception, signified by something as universal as football

electricliterature.com

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 20d

Similarly, for writers specifically, I think programs/fellowships/etc need to stop using number of books published as the primary/only marker of being "established" or worthy of support. There are other ways to measure a writer's progression in the craft.

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 20d

The past two years, there has been some amazing writing about what it's REALLY like to be an Arab in the "West."

(Not that we were never writing it before, just wasn't getting published too much.)

Here's another essay.

The author doesn't name names, but I will: The New Yorker. David Remnick.

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

bidoun.org

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Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social · 22d

Which means nearly 41 years ago, the following summer, I developed the hugest crush on Don Johnson.

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