FESTIVAL 2025

Saeed Teebi

Author, "Her First Palestinian"

FESTIVAL 2025

Saeed Teebi

Author, "Her First Palestinian"

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Saeed Teebi is an award-winning writer and lawyer. His debut short story collection, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize. His nonfiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly. Born in Kuwait, he resettled in the United States, then Canada. He now lives in Toronto, and his second book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination, publishes September 2025.

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You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

by Saeed Teebi

Published by Simon & Schuster Canada

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Her First Palestinian

by Saeed Teebi

Published by House of Anansi

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