Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations

A recommended 2018 summer read by Mythili Rao of WNYC's New Yorker Radio Hour on The Takeaway

"Banthology is a collection that doesn't just ask for knowledge and compassion, but prompts action, accountability, and change." – The Arkansas International

"The stories shine a light on collective experiences through individual stories and might help bring about an understanding that runs counter to the demonisation of a religion and of entire nationalities through a crass, unjust and discriminatory ban." – Susannah Tarbush, The Tanjara

"This anthology is a welcome arrival in a time that is unwelcoming in so many needless ways - at least as the US is projecting. The voices, the writing of Rania Mamoun, Zaher Omareen, Fereshteh Molavi, Najwa Binshatwan, Ubah Cristina Ah Farah, Anoud, and Wajdi al-Ahdal, as given us by their estimable translators here, are all voices and writers we should be reading and knowing in any event. May this book help us begin to know these writers, their work, and lead to a deeper, world of reading, to making the larger world a more welcoming and gracious place in more ways." – Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company

"Seven fresh, surprising views on boundaries and borders in a collection that combines black humor, islamo-futurism, fantasy, and painful realities." – M. Lynx Qualey, Arablit