Khaled and Jamila by Ameri, Anan
Khaled and Jamila by Ameri, Anan

Khaled and Jamila

Khaled and Jamila is a sweeping, multigenerational novel by Palestinian-American writer Anan Ameri that explores the enduring...
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Author: Anan Ameri
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Khaled and Jamila by Ameri, Anan

Khaled and Jamila

$67.99 $37.90
Khaled and Jamila by Ameri, Anan

Khaled and Jamila

$67.99 $37.90
Author: Anan Ameri
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Khaled and Jamila is a sweeping, multigenerational novel by Palestinian-American writer Anan Ameri that explores the enduring power of love and family across continents and cultures, asking what, in a divided world, truly lasts.

What in the world is beautiful forever? When disconnection rocks a family, the mistakes of one generation become the heartaches of the next ...

1959, the West Bank, Palestine. Khaled's bossy, hot-tempered father insists that his son go to college in the States so he can learn to help him run his business. Khaled, Arabic for forever, is reluctant to leave his secret, hometown crush. But he's bullied into taking off for Ann Arbor. There he falls for a blue-collar American girl. One thing leads to another, including a daughter named Jamila, Arabic for beautiful. Family mayhem erupts on all sides.

Fast forward to 1984. Jamila has come of age growing up in Ann Arbor during the turbulent sixties and seventies. There she falls for her brother's best friend, Ali, who she's known for years. But even though he's practically a member of the family, Ali is Black. Interracial marriages in the US are still few and far between. Mayhem breaks out again, tearing close ties apart.

And so, what might Sitti, the grandmother conciliator, have to say?

The names and heartaches of Khaled and Jamila ask, what in this mad world is beautiful forever? In Anan Ameri's noisy, impatient, vibrant novel, enduring beauty is the kind of love that family can teach us. And it's the larger, ever-expanding family of connections that love can show us when we learn to let it.

Author: Anan Ameri
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.13w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9781623715847


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2025
Booklist 10/01/2025

About the Author
Dr. Anan Ameri is a writer, educator, activist and the award-winning author of The Scent of Jasmine (Interlink, 2017). She is the founding director of Dearborn's celebrated Arab American National Museum (AANM). She has won a Palestine Book Award, was named the 2005 Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News, was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and was named the 2020 Arab American of the Year.
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