Find Your Next Favorite SWANA Read
Launched in 2025 and shaped largely through the care and labor of Glenn Shaheen and Zeyn Joukhadar, RAWI’s Bookshop.org list has grown into an archive of more than 700 titles by SWANA writers from across our community. It’s a living, expanding record of our collective work—past, present, and still unfolding.
The button below will take you to Bookshop.org, where every purchase supports independent booksellers—and 10% of each sale also comes back to RAWI to help fund our programs and sustain this work.
If you would like to see your book added to this list, contact us with its ISBN number. At present, we can only add books with an ISBN number.
Reading Groups
Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. RAWI hopes to add virtual and regional reading groups led by RAWI members. If you are interested in leading one of these groups, we’d love to hear from you.
Other initiatives
We offer a variety of virtual readings, roundtables, publishing Q&As, and more to empower and connect members at all stages of their writing journeys. Our Submission Fee Bank, a microgrant program, offsets the cost of application and submission fees. Contact us to learn more.
Recognizing the power of connection, we send a monthly newsletter, maintain an Instagram account, and are building a more robust member directory on this site to help Arab American and SWANA writers build on-the-ground communities, lead regional initiatives, and stay in touch between events. Contact us to learn more.
RAWIFest creates a space where we can speak among ourselves. RAWI’s biannual gathering provides a rare opportunity to bring a large number of Arab American and SWANA writers, artists, scholars, and readers into the same inclusive and welcoming space. Contact us to learn more.