“Skilfully and sympathetically told, Leila and Khaled is a powerful story of love, fate, resistance, privilege, and bearing witness.” — Christine Estima, author of Letters to Kafka

“Leila and Khaled is an evocative, moving, and crucial novel that affirms the power of storytelling as an essential act of resistance.” — Kathryn Mockler, author of Anecdotes

“An unflinching exploration of Palestinian resistance and a love story teeming with passion and pathos. Bold, ambitious, startling in its moral clarity and utterly engrossing.” — Jasmine Sealy, author of The Island of Forgetting

“Leila and Khaled, unapologetic and unforgettable, are elegantly crafted through this novel’s every moment of revelation, nuance, and moving lyricism. A stirring debut.” — Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir 

“With sumptuous prose and heartrending moral clarity, Leila and Khaled triumphs.” —Kathy Friedman, author of All the Shining People

“Written with a poet’s fierce attention to language, cinematic presence, and searing moral precision.” — Anna Swanson, author of The Garbage Poems

“A torrid, deeply felt romance … Brimming with erudition and luxuriously researched history.” —Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian 

“Leila & Khaled is a highly realistic novel, a love affair superimposed on some of the most contested territory in the world.” — California Review of Books