Michel and Ruth Moushabeck, founders of Interlink Publishing, have transferred ownership of the 37-year-old publisher to a new generation of owners that includes their daughters Leyla, Hannah, and Maha, and their son-in-law Harrison Williams.
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Founded in 1987, Interlink is located in Northampton, Mass., and publishes fiction, nonfiction, children's books, cookbooks, and fiction in translation highlighting voices from the Global South. It is the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the U.S. and publishes approximately 80 titles each year, with a backlist of more than 1,000 titles. It also operates Booklink Booksellers, a bookstore that opened in 1997.
"Our mission remains unchanged," the new owners said in a statement. "We believe in amplifying the voices so often excluded in the mainstream. We are dedicated to sharing the history, art, music, literature, and beauty that our culture, and so many others, bring to the world, and we see this as a form of resistance."
Some of Interlink's bestselling titles include Palestine on a Plate by Joudie Kalla, Ethiopia by Yohanis Gebreyesus, Rainbow Revolutions by Jamie Lawson, We Are Palestinian by Reem Kassis, and poetry collections by Mahmoud Darwish.
Concerning the new owners, Leyla is editorial director and longtime cookbook editor at Interlink as well as the author of The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes That Make America Great (Interlink). Maha is managing director and earlier worked at Yale University Press. Harrison Williams is a director of Interlink.
Hannah is a board member of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and the author of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle). Until this past spring, when she joined Interlink, she was independent retail marketing manager for Simon & Schuster and earlier worked at Chronicle Books, the Quarto Group, and the Odyssey Bookshop, S. Hadley, Mass.