Media
Foreign Correspondent Atia Abawi Humanizes Global Refugee Crisis in New Novel, The Women's Eye w/Stacey Gualandi, 14 March 2018
Interview: Atia Abawi: 'There were lifejackets everywhere. People died trying to live', The Guardian, 9 February 2018. By Peter Beaumont
Books In Brief, The Buffalo News, 8 February 2018
A Syrian Teen, Forced To Flee 'A Land Of Permanent Goodbyes', NPR, 2 February 2018
Waiting to wait more, Jerusalem Post, 18 January 2018
Starred Review, School Library Journal, 11 December 2017
Starred Review, Kirkus, 1 December 2017
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, 13 November 2017
Children’s Authors Take On the Refugee Crisis, The New York Times, 6 August 2017
Reading, Writing and Refugees, The New York Times, 6 August 2017
Book Deals, Publishers Weekly, 2 December 2016
[Singapore] Writers festival introduces Classroom series of talks to broaden worldviews, The Straits Times, 4 November 2016
Seven YA novels that show the lives of teens around the world, The Guardian, 16 September 2015
Let's Get Lit: A Secret Window Onto Life In Afghanistan, interview with TVL1, 12 July 2015
Tenn. shooter had several weapons with him during attack, interview with Fox News, 8 July 2015
Fall 2014 Flying Starts: Atia Abawi, Publishers Weekly, 19 December 2014
Afghan-American author Atia Abawi on her book, interview with VOA Dari, 14 December 2014
The Reason You Can't Always Hear the Moderate Muslim Voices, Huffington Post, 16 October 2014
Why lessons from Afghanistan can help in fight against ISIS, interview with Fox News, 9 October 2014
How Not to Defeat Radical Islamists, National Review, 7 October 2014
Atia Abawi talks Afghan politics and her new book on Impact with Yalda Hakim, interview with BBC News, 29 September 2014