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Dec 1, 2021 · The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented...
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Apr 3, 2024 · We proudly share 75 titles of talented Arab and Arab American writers—from fiction to memoirs, history, art, cookbooks to picture books for children. This list is compiled by Interlinkbooks for the Arab America Foundation and National Arab American Heritage Month.
Dec 28, 2021 · Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index. In search of identity-through the history, politics, and emotions of becoming "Arab": Leila Ahmed's A border passage: from Cairo to America, a woman's journey -- "Swimmers in dangerous waters/defiers of shark": negotiation and resistance in Mohja Kahf's Emails from Scheherazad -- In ...
Contemporary Arab American Women Writers: Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings: Publisher: Cambria Press: ISBN: 1621969576, 9781621969570 : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan
- 10 Must-Read Arab American Feminist Books
- The Blue Between Sky and Water
- A Map of Home
- Once in A Promised Land
- Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America
- I, The Divine
- The Bullet Collection
- The Map of Love
- The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf
- I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
posted on: Jul 13, 2020 By: Dani Meyer/Arab America Contributing Writer With their works, Arab American authors have been able to shine a light on a feminist perspective of the stories of Arabs and Arab Americans. From fiction to memoirs, these fantastic Arab American feminist books will shed light on the stories of women throughout the Arab world.
Written by Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Watertells the story of the women of the Baraka family who live in a small Palestinian farming village. When they are forced to leave their ancestral home, only Nazmiyeh and her brother survive the long road to Gaza. Nazmiyeh tries to build a new life for herself and her brother in Gaza, but her b...
A coming-of-age novel by Randa Jarrar, A Map of Home, tells the story of a girl named Nidali, whose name means “struggle.” Born to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father, Nidali tells the story of her family’s life in Egypt and their flight to the United States. Set during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a ...
Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona. Although the two live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the nationwide fallout from 9/11. With the combination of a fragile marriage and straddling their new culture with their heritage, Once in a Promised Lan...
Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales of Lebanese women in the United States, from the 1960s to today. Many of the women grapple with reclaiming or abandoning ancestral demands and finessing age-old male-female relationships. Shakir offers multiple perspectives on Lebanese women trying to change their roles in a new landscape without abandoning their cultu...
I, The Divine, focuses on Sarah Nour el-Din, a Lebanese girl who has been living in self-imposed exile in the United States. Her story focuses on her vibrant spirit and the difficulties of her life as she boldly tells her story. “Like her narrative, [Sarah’s] life is broken and fragmented. [But] the bright, strange, often startling pieces…are movin...
As the city of Beirut is caught in the crossfire of conflict in the Middle East, Marianna watches her older sister collect evidence of violence from the war. Marianna becomes her sister Alaine’s keeper. However, when the family moves to America, Alaine becomes content. As Marianna longs for her home of Beirut, she struggles to understand her new id...
A Booker Prize finalist, The Map of Love! This book tells a cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with an Egyptian-American conductor. Underlying her romance is the story of her great-great-grandmother, an English woman who fell in love with an Egyptian nationalist. “...
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf tells the story of a Syrian girl transplanted to the American Midwest in the 1970s. Though not an autobiography, the author, Mohja Kahf, also moved from Syria to the United States as a child. Kahf delves into the cultural clashes of Muslim life in America, through the eyes of a young girl.
Honored alongside Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as one of Glamour magazine’s women of the year, Nujood tells her full story for the first time. When her family betrothed and married her to a man nearly four times her age, Nujood took matters into her own hands and became the youngest woman in Yemen to obtain a divorce. In I Am Nujood, Age 10...
The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves.
6 days ago · Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal. Edited by Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, and Louise Cainkar. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 480 pp. $55, paper. Reviewed by: Daniel Pipes. For many centuries, the word Arab meant roughly the Bedouin.
