PRAISE FOR SAEED TEEBI AND HER FIRST PALESTINIAN "This beautiful collection not only brings to light the varied and sometimes fraught experiences of diasporic Palestinians but does so with masterful storytelling. These stories are rich and deep, with elegant, tragic, or funny twists that will stay in my mind for a long time." -- Farzana Doctor, author of Seven "A gorgeous debut collection of short stories so complex and rich they make me think that Saeed Teebi has been writing for many years." -- Hasan Namir, author of God in Pink "Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian is an exciting contribution to contemporary Palestinian diaspora literature. His characters grapple with overzealous allies, privilege, and polite discrimination, as well as forging new identities without quite managing to shed inherited ones. With sharp wit and humour, Teebi delivers a range of stories that are pleasingly new as they reverberate familiar themes of loss and triumph." -- Sahar Mustafah, author of The Beauty of Your Face "Saeed Teebi writes with Chekhovian intentionality and Nabokovian rumination. These are stories about modesty or vanity, kindness or treachery, timidity or wit.

In the author's intelligent grasp we find a heartbreaking tenacity for connection to the here and now and to the land between the river and the sea." -- Nyla Matuk, author of Stranger "Dispatches from the state of exile, these stories are filled with delightful, devastating turns as Teebi explores the endless fracturing of displacement." -- Rebecca Sacks, author of City of a Thousand Gates.