Crescent (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Sirine: Add a description of this character.
• Aziz
• Mireille
• Nathan
• Aunt Camille
• Abdelrahman Salahadin
• Rana
• Habeebti
• Diana Abu-jaber
• Leila
• Hanif
• King Babar
• Sami
• Victor Hernandez
• Janet
• Richard Burton
• Alieph
• Omar Sharif
• Saddam Hussein
• Mahfouz
• Cristobal
• Odah
• Li Pin
• Hemingway
• Hal
• Abdullah
• Crazyman Al-rashid
• Khoorosh
• Lon

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• ““Patience comes from strange places,” her uncle says. “From the moon and stars, from sighing and breathing, and from working and sleeping, to name a few.””

• “Old stories and memories—especially the old stories that gather in the collective unconscious of a family—are like mirages. Illusory and fantastic, and yet they are frequently based on some reflection of reality.”

• “You know, there’s an art to listening to a story—it requires equal parts silence and receptivity.”

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• There’s an old expression in the Arab world that ‘Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.’

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• “In Iraq, everyone tells jokes and fables. It’s too difficult to say anything directly.”

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• “Patience comes from strange places,” her uncle says. “From the moon and stars, from sighing and breathing, and from working and sleeping, to name a few.”

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• Old stories and memories—especially the old stories that gather in the collective unconscious of a family—are like mirages. Illusory and fantastic, and yet they are frequently based on some reflection of reality.

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• “Something like…tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.”

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• You know, there’s an art to listening to a story—it requires equal parts silence and receptivity.

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• Habeebti, here is something you have to understand about stories: They can point you in the right direction but they can’t take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they

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• world is broken. Hayati, it’s time. I’ve gone. Imagine that I was never here at all.”

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• Ahdaf Soueif, Emile Habiby, and Naguib Mahfouz are written on the blackboard.

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• The thing about listening to a story like this, Habeebti, is not to fret over chasing down the details, but to let the spirit of things show themselves. Learn how to just let it be.

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• Um-nadia
• Iraq
• Baghdad
• America
• Bedu
• Cairo
• England
• Middle East
• Islam
• Hollywood
• Aqaba
• Africa
• Iran
• Westwood
• Ramadan
• Egypt
• Italy
• Jordan
• Syria
• Los Angeles

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Diana Abu-Jaber (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• American Book Award (2004)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary