elias jahshan author bio

Elias Jahshan

Jahshan

Elias Jahshan is the editor of groundbreaking anthologies This Arab is Queer (Saqi Books; 2022), and This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books; 2025). He has also contributed short memories to several anthologies, including Arab, Australian, Other (Picador, 2019), Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing From the Diaspora (Palestine Writes Press, 2024), and Homosexual Intifada (Interlink Books, 2026).  Elias is also a former editor of Star Observer, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media outlet, and has been published in The Guardian, Gay Times, Raseef22, My Kali, and more. He is currently the Social Media Manager at The New Arab.

Follow him on Instagram: @Elias_Jahshan

Book Club: When the World Sleeps by Francesca Albanese

What does it cost to confront injustice when the world would rather look away?

In the latest installment of The New Arab Book Club, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese discusses When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, her deeply personal book that interweaves international law, Palestine and her own experiences. Originally published in Italian last year, it’s now been translated into English by Gregory Conti.

28 August, 2026

Book Club: The Gaza Tribunal by Jeremy Corbyn

In a wide-ranging interview with The New Arab Book Club, Jeremy Corbyn talks about his new book The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide, which he co-authored with Neve Gordon and Shahd Hammouri.

28 August, 2026

Book Club: Ever Land by Amy Abdelnoor

In the latest episode of The New Arab Book Club, author Amy Abdelnoor joins Elias Jahshan to discuss her debut novel, Ever Land, which is set in Palestine at the beginning of the Second Intifada.

Ever Land follows Dinah, a Jewish teenager newly arrived from London, and Safa, a Palestinian whose family history is deeply rooted in the land, as their lives unfold on opposite sides of the Israeli occupation.

28 August, 2026

The Nakba is an inheritance for all Palestinians

The New Arab journalist Elias Jahshan speaks of his own family inheritance, and why it’s important to mourn and commemorate the Nakba.

20 July, 2026

Eurovision 2026: United by Indifference?

Is this a case of selective solidarity or willful indifference to Palestinian lives? Elias Jahshan shares his thoughts.

20 July, 2026

Cactus Pear for My Beloved: A daughter's tale of family and Gaza

Book Club: Samah Sabawi's debut novel, 'Cactus Pear for My Beloved, chronicles her family and Gaza's history, blending love, resilience, and memory

05 March, 2026

Daniel Nour's queer Coptic memoir on family, faith and comedy

Book Club: We speak to Daniel Nour about his memoir 'How to Dodge Flying Sandals,' and how writing honestly about family and faith reshaped his sense of self

07 January, 2026

The Arab run clubs turning health & fitness into a community hub

Across cities like London and Toronto, Arab-run clubs are turning weekly jogs into something bigger: community, identity, and a shared sense of belonging

27 June, 2025

Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Book Club: The New Arab speaks to Mohammed El-Kurd about his new book which seeks to break down the ‘perfect victim’ myth in Palestine in the face of propaganda

26 February, 2025

Sara M Saleh on the pluralities of Palestinian personhood

Book Club: Poet, activist, organiser and now author Sara M Saleh is a woman of many talents. Speaking to The New Arab, Sara talks about the inspiration behind her debut novel 'Songs for the Dead and the Living' and how multiplicities come into play.

04 October, 2023