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Alhamdulillah Anyway: Poems

Alhamdulillah Anyway: Poems - Paperback

by Moudi Sbeity
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Availability:In StockContributor:Moudi SbeityTheme:Cultural Region/Middle Eastern, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:9/1/2026Pages:86
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fernwood PressISBN-13:9781594982439ISBN-10:1594982430UPC:9781594982439Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:WarSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.1Product ID:SCHW63KSDP

How totally must a heart break so that gratitude is repeatedly uttered on our lips? In Alhamdulillah Anyway, Moudi Sbeity responds by holding the grief of witnessing the genocide in Gaza and the war in Lebanon alongside praise for existing at all. As a queer Muslim who stutters, Sbeity's debut collection intimately addresses how language and narrative author our collective experience. His poems reach across the divide of border and ideology and into the shared pulse of being, pointing toward the possibility of liberation through a framework of compassion, forgiveness, and awe. So that even with all the difficulties we each face daily, even with all the atrocities of our world, still alhamdulillah-the quieter sister to hallelujah-can be uttered as our final song of gratitude.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fernwood PressISBN-13:9781594982439ISBN-10:1594982430UPC:9781594982439Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:WarSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.1Product ID:SCHW63KSDP
Sbeity, Moudi: - Moudi Sbeity is a Lebanese-American poet, author, and contemplative educator. Born in Texas and raised in Lebanon, he moved to the United States at the age of eighteen as an evacuee following the 2006 July war. In Utah, Moudi founded and operated Laziz Kitchen, a Lebanese restaurant celebrated by the New York Times as "the future of queer dining." Moudi was also a named plaintiff in Kitchen v. Herbert, the landmark case that brought marriage equality to Utah and the 10th circuit states in 2014. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Orison's Best Spiritual Literature. As a lifelong stutterer, he is passionate about writing and poetry as practices in fluency and self-expression. He is also the author of the memoir Habibi Means Beloved.
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