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Zaina Arafat
Arafat does a Book Talk for the Brooklyn Museum in 2020
EducationUniversity of Virginia
Columbia University
University of Iowa
Occupations
  • Writer
  • educator
Writing career
Notable workYou Exist Too Much
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award

Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian American writer and educator. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much, which won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction.[1]

Arafat's essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Granta.[2][3][4]

Life and career

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Arafat grew up between the United States and the Middle East, and is based in Brooklyn, New York.[5] She earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.[6]

Her writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Vice, Guernica, Literary Hub, and NPR.[6][7] She received the Arab Women/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship at Jack Jones Literary Arts.[6]

Arafat teaches at Barnard College, and has also taught at the School of The New York Times and LIU Post.[6] In 2024, she was interviewed in Seen about Palestinian diaspora writing and her forthcoming essay collection Our Arab.[8]

You Exist Too Much

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Arafat's debut novel, You Exist Too Much, was published by Catapult Books in 2020.[9] The novel was reviewed in Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Irish Times, and Washington Independent Review of Books.[9][10][11][12][13][14] In 2021, it won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction.[1]

Arafat discussed the novel in interviews and profiles published by Kirkus Reviews, Them, Xtra Magazine, and Huck.[15][16][17][18]

Works

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  • You Exist Too Much. New York: Catapult Books. 2020. ISBN 9781948226509.
  • Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope. New York: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Books). September 29, 2026. ISBN 9780316584685.
  • "Habibi City", New York

References

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  1. 1 2 "2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. June 1, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  2. ↑ Arafat, Zaina (March 11, 2024). "Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  3. ↑ Arafat, Zaina (September 6, 2017). "When Getting a College Degree Requires Self-Exile". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  4. ↑ Arafat, Zaina (December 11, 2013). "Persist". Granta. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  5. ↑ Jackson, Jared (June 11, 2020). "The PEN Ten: An Interview with Zaina Arafat". PEN America. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Zaina Arafat". Barnard College. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  7. ↑ Selected byline examples include: Arafat, Zaina (March 11, 2024). "Fasting for Ramadan While Gaza Goes Hungry". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; Arafat, Zaina (September 6, 2017). "When Getting a College Degree Requires Self-Exile". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; Arafat, Zaina (December 11, 2013). "Persist". Granta. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; Arafat, Zaina (June 28, 2018). "Our Arab". The Believer. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; Arafat, Zaina (July 3, 2017). "Power Jam". Virginia Quarterly Review. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; "Zaina Arafat". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; Arafat, Zaina (November 24, 2013). "The Problem With Being Palestinian On Thanksgiving". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; "Zaina Arafat". Vice. Retrieved May 1, 2026.; "Zaina Arafat". Literary Hub. Retrieved May 1, 2026..
  8. ↑ J. Wortham (October 17, 2024). "Finding Hope in the World Anew". Seen. BlackStar Projects. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  9. 1 2 "You Exist Too Much". Kirkus Reviews. March 28, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  10. ↑ Iglesias, Gabino (June 11, 2020). "'You Exist Too Much' Exists In A Constant State Of Discontent". NPR. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  11. ↑ "You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  12. ↑ Mills, Sarah (June 15, 2020). "A Quest for a Mother: The Infinite Pursuit of Possibility in Zaina Arafat's "You Exist Too Much"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  13. ↑ Gilmartin, Sarah (December 4, 2020). "You Exist Too Much: A provocative and insightful debut". The Irish Times. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  14. ↑ Tileva, Antoaneta (December 29, 2020). "You Exist Too Much: A Novel". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  15. ↑ Zwirner, Johanna (June 23, 2020). "Zaina Arafat on the Art of In-Betweenness". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  16. ↑ Neilson, Sarah (June 9, 2020). "Read Me: Zaina Arafat Occupies Liminal Spaces in You Exist Too Much". Them. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  17. ↑ Abi-Nakhoul, Nour (July 1, 2020). "Inhabiting the in-between with Zaina Arafat". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
  18. ↑ Wyver, Kate (June 1, 2020). "Zaina Arafat on queer love, desire, and Palestinian identity". Huck. Retrieved May 1, 2026.
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