Zahra Marwan (زهراء) (@two_desert) 's Twitter Profile
Zahra Marwan (زهراء)

@two_desert

Drawing in the high desert.
writer / illustrator at Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Random House, Enchanted Lion, & Astra Books

Rep: Writers House l Andrea Morrison

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A magical morning putting up Rumi's poem downtown, thought of by Ameerah Badr and planned by Orphan Signs "A strange passion is moving in my head."

A magical morning putting up Rumi's poem downtown, thought of by Ameerah Badr and planned by Orphan Signs

"A strange passion is moving in my head."
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“We're people of the tides.” Ameerah weaving Tlingit in and out of her Palestinian heart. Empathetically embroidered, tatreez, she gives me a thousand graphic novels and a typewriter. A traveling box for paints and promises of book fairs before slowly leaving our desert city

“We're people of the tides.” Ameerah weaving Tlingit in and out of her Palestinian heart. Empathetically embroidered, tatreez, she gives me a thousand graphic novels and a typewriter. A traveling box for paints and promises of book fairs before slowly leaving our desert city
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For #InternationalWomensDay, I'd like to commemorate the women of my home country – especially stateless, migrants and those recently stripped of citizenship – as we face our worst era post invasion. Reported on stateless women from a few years ago here👇 newarab.com/features/unsun…

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As a little girl, my uncle Hussein Darwish astonished me with the magic of a handful of tiny fish, swimming all around us. Perpetual diaspora is hearing relatives suddenly pass away, a burial needs to happen in a day and my heart is broken for my cousins thousands of miles away

As a little girl, my uncle Hussein Darwish astonished me with the magic of a handful of tiny fish, swimming all around us. Perpetual diaspora is hearing relatives suddenly pass away, a burial needs to happen in a day and my heart is broken for my cousins thousands of miles away
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My father died in the spring, 9 years ago today. Far, I couldn't feel that his breath was failing him. He made jokes, assured me, and I arrived too late. Before his burial, at the cemetery at night, I saw the moon and then my aunt, who's gaze immediately enveloped me with warmth

My father died in the spring, 9 years ago today. Far, I couldn't feel that his breath was failing him. He made jokes, assured me, and I arrived too late. Before his burial, at the cemetery at night, I saw the moon and then my aunt, who's gaze immediately enveloped me with warmth
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watching writers, academics, and protesters in solidarity with Palestinian rights and liberation be removed from their homes, the street, detained, is unsettling to say to the least.

watching writers, academics, and protesters in solidarity with Palestinian rights and liberation
be removed from their homes, the street, detained, is unsettling to say to the least.
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"Alice twirls my hair around her finger when she speaks to me" found a home today through Hecho a Mano! hechoamano.org/art/4553071?su…

"Alice twirls my hair around her finger when she speaks to me"
found a home today through Hecho a Mano! 

hechoamano.org/art/4553071?su…
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أصدرت الصديقة زهرة مروان، رسامة كتب الأطفال الحائزة على جوائز، أحدث كتبها "سكينة والضيوف غير المدعوين". كتاب مصور تشارك فيه مجددًا خلفيتها العربية/الفارسية الغنية، لتبتكر قصة رائعة عن فتاة صغيرة تُدعى سكينة. تُؤخذ سكينة إلى المتحف مع والدتها، حيث تشعر والدتها بالعاطفة تجاه جميع

أصدرت الصديقة زهرة مروان، رسامة كتب الأطفال الحائزة على جوائز، أحدث كتبها "سكينة والضيوف غير المدعوين". كتاب مصور تشارك فيه مجددًا خلفيتها العربية/الفارسية الغنية، لتبتكر قصة رائعة عن فتاة صغيرة تُدعى سكينة. تُؤخذ سكينة إلى المتحف مع والدتها، حيث تشعر والدتها بالعاطفة تجاه جميع
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Award-winning children's illustrator Zahra Marwan's latest book, "Sakina and the Uninvited Guests," is a picture book in which she once again shares her rich Arab/Persian background, creating a wonderful story about a little girl named Sakina. Sakina is taken to a musueam with

Award-winning children's illustrator Zahra Marwan's latest book, "Sakina and the Uninvited Guests," is a picture book in which she once again shares her rich Arab/Persian background, creating a wonderful story about a little girl named Sakina. Sakina is taken to a musueam with
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“Watercolor illustrations from Marwan render the family in tight inky lines, while the tree and the landscape flow with saturated colors, daubed strokes, and vivid washes in dark blues and lemon yellows." Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/9780593808412?…