{"id":15485,"date":"2022-08-13T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15485"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:10:45","slug":"saeed-teebi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/saeed-teebi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saeed Teebi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Saeed Teebi was born to Palestinian parents in Kuwait, lived in the United States, and has lived in Canada since 1993. He is a lawyer and writer based in Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Her First Palestinian and Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2022.
PS8639.E445 H47 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Saeed Teebi\u2019s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family\u2019s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize<\/a> (Finalist)
2023 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize-Literary Fiction<\/a> (Finalist)
2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction (Memoir)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Scribner Canada\/Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Forthcoming Sept. 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher House of Anansi Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Simon & Schuster Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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