A Palestinian Story Time - Aya Ghanameh & Hannah Moushabeck - 3-18-2024

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Join Word Up for a special story time for kids centering Palestinian stories of home. Aya Ghanameh shared her story These Olive Trees about a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. Hannah Moushabeck shared Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine, an autobiographical love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people that transcends borders.
Following the reading, there were activities on Palestinian culture.
Aya Ghanameh is a Palestinian illustrator, writer, and designer from Amman, Jordan currently based in New York City. Her work moves away from state-centric ways of thinking to center the voices of ordinary people in historical and political narratives. Her debut picture book, These Olive Trees (Viking Books, 2023), is inspired by the experiences of her family who cultivated her love of the earth throughout her upbringing in exile. Aya graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Literary Arts & Studies. Previously a Children's Books & Gifts Design Fellow at Chronicle Books, she is now a Designer at Penguin Workshop at Penguin Random House.
Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and marketer who was raised in a family of booksellers and publishers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.