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Lead With Diversity Press is a curated, invitation-based publisher. We work closely with select authors whose work reflects our mission of amplifying diverse voices. At this time, we are not accepting unsolicited submissions.

Dr. Abdulrehman on CJOB discussing Lead With Diversity Press and the call for submissions for The Poetry of Angry Black and Brown People

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When a Western-trained psychologist returns to Zanzibar, the stories he once dismissed as superstition rise up to meet him—alive, layered, and rooted in blood.

Raised in Canada and shaped by science, he believed identity was a matter of will. But in the heat and hush of his ancestral island, whispers of jinn and witches begin to unearth a deeper truth—one carved by exile, memory, and spirits that do not forget. Told in two intertwined timelines—“modernity” and “antiquity”—Jinn in the Family blends poetic fiction with cultural myth, weaving Arab, African, and Indian lineages into a haunting tapestry of inheritance. This novel asks what is lost when diasporic people abandon identity and the unseen, and what might be reclaimed when we finally listen to what was never gone. More than folklore. More than horror. This is the story of what lives in the quiet—and what refuses to die.

“This book is like a great meal, savour it.”

– Anthony Q. Farrell, award-winning television writer (The Office, Little Mosque)

“In a world where dominant narratives too often erase, flatten, or commodify cultural difference, Jinn in the Family is a bold and necessary healing potion. It is a book that doesn’t just tell stories—it resurrects and synergizes them with purpose. It invites us to sit at the family table, inhale the spice of a memory, and see what flickers in the corner of our vision, if only we dare to look.”

– Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Power of Oral Culture in Education: Theorizing Proverbs, Idioms, and Folklore Tales (2023)

“I found myself utterly mesmerized by each story, intrigued and bewitched, fascinated by Zanzibar’s complex history and the author’s family fables.”
4.75/5 

– Zainab Bint Younus, Muslim Book Reviews

“This book is a reminder that what was once dismissed as superstition is in truth sacred intelligence. It affirms our right to remember, to feel, and to listen to the unseen.”

– Ali’i Nui – King – Aleka Aipoalani
Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi
Hawaiian Kingdom

The Poetry of Angry Black and Brown People is an anthology of poetry and prose by poets and writers of colour. The anthology provides a unified artistic voice of writers of colour to challenge stereotypes of who we are through creative writing. Whereas our identities are typically politicized, this body of work challenges stereotypes by focusing on relatable topics of human experience ranging from love and sex to anger, fear, and community. Watch for this incredible anthology in early Winter, 2025.

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