Taha will give a workshop on novel writing in Houston every Saturday in September, 2017 at The Fig Writers Studio. For full details on the interactive workshop click here

A lively discussion, fantastic setting and a wonderful book club group at Nofa Creative Space, Amman Jordan.

Taha is honored to be chosen Person of the Month by the National Arab American Women’s Association NAAWA for the month of September 2016. Read full article here.

Bitter Almonds is out with a new look in paperback and eBook (Kindle and Kobo)

Bitter Almonds is now available in large print by Ulverscroft Publishing Ltd

ABC Treehut in The Hague, The Netherlands, in partnership with HBKU Press, hosted a reading and book signing for Palestinian-American author, Lilas Taha. Ms Taha read from her latest novel, Bitter Almonds. Click here for details.

Reading and book signing on April 16, 2016 at 6:00 pm at TIRAZ Centre, Amman, Jordan.

BITTER ALMONDS is at #9 on the list by Bustle.com for January 2016’s 13 best YA books to read when the snow inevitably falls.

Meet author Lilas Taha on Saturday, January 23, 2 p.m. at your Sugar Land HPB. Lilas will discuss and sign her new novel Bitter Almonds. Hardback copies available for purchase starting January 19 as specially-priced new items while supplies last.

BITTER ALMONDS is translated into the Norwegian language and is published by Cappelen Damm AS

“Lilas Taha’s BITTER LMONDS exemplifies struggle of displacement, power of human spirit.” Author interview and book discussion in Elan Magazine

Taha will be at a reading and discussion event for BITTER ALMONDS on October 7th, 2015 at Sakeyat Addaraweesh in Amman, Jordan.

Lilas Taha’s Bitter Almonds encompasses the pain of exile.

Author interview in The National

SHADOWS OF DAMASCUS was chosen as a finalist in the Mainstream w/Romantic Elements category of the Colorado Romance Writers 2015 Award of Excellence Contest. To see the finalists list on the CRW website, click here. Winners will be announced at the CRW conference in Denver, Colorado on August 8, 2015.

SHADOWS OF DAMASCUS is nominated for the RONE award (Reward of Novel Excellence) by InD’tale Magazine in the Contemporary: Sweet – 2015 category.

Taha will be chatting live about book plot and character creation on Coffee Time Romance on March 24th at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.

Taha will be discussing and signing her book Shadows of Damascus at the River Oaks Bookstore in Houston, TX on November 15 from 4-6 pm

Taha will be signing books at the Texas Book Festival 2014 in Austin on Oct 25 and Oct 26, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm each day. Texas Book Festival 2014