NAAFA Presents Fat Community Storytime with Hannah Moushabeck

Saturday, October 12, 2024

10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Duration: 60 minutes

Fat Community Storytime is NAAFA’s new virtual event spotlighting fat authors and illustrators who create storybooks for kids of all ages. We know grown-ups like storytime, too, so we’re inviting these fat-tastic creators to read their books and then tell us more about themselves, their other projects, and their lives as fat people. Join us for our very first edition of #FatCommunityStorytime with award-winning author Hannah Moushabeck, who will read her acclaimed story, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine. Kirkus Reviews calls Hannah’s book “a beautiful tale of family, love for a lost homeland, and remembrance.” Hosted by Tigress Osborn (she/her) with interpreting by Pro Bono ASL.

Image Description (provided by guest): A headshot of Hannah Moushabeck, a fat light skinned Arab American woman with brown hair. She is wearing a grew mock neck top and a black and white keffiyah over her shoulders.

GUEST BIO:

Hannah Moushabeck (she/her) is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books, The Quarto Group, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations. Follow her @hannahmoushabeck.

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