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  Words Under the Words

  Selected Poems

  by Naomi Shihab Nye

  A political, spiritual Palestinian-American from Texas, Naomi Nye illuminates some of the subtler aspects of human experience in this volume of poems drawn from three previous collections. She ponders everything from the donor of a now-broken music box to a little girl clenching her fist against death, using absolute clarity of imagery and a gentle, authoritative voice to make her visions accessible. She also... (more)
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  Crescent

  by Diana Abu-Jaber

  "Abu-Jaber's voluptuous prose features insights into the Arab American community that are wisely, warmly depicted."— San Francisco Chronicle Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food—until an unbearably handsome Arabic literature... (more)
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  Arabian Jazz

  by Diana Abu-Jaber

  Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award. In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz,... (more)
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  The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

  by Mohja Kahf

  Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between "Muslim" and "American." When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and... (more)
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  How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?

  Being Young and Arab in America

  by Moustafa Bayoumi

  The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed “problem” of American society, their lives no better understood than those of African Americans a century ago. Under the cover of the terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the explosion of political... (more)
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  The Language of Baklava

  A Memoir

  by Diana Abu-Jaber

  Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana's childhood–American and Jordanian–while helping to paint a loving and complex portrait of... (more)
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  Once in a Promised Land

  by Laila Halaby

  Once in a Promised Land is the story of Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing mirages of opportunity and freedom. Although the couple live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the dust cloud of paranoia settling over the nation. A hydrologist, Jassim believes passionately in his mission to make water accessible to all people, but his work is... (more)
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  The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly

  by Susan Muaddi Darraj

  "This sweet, sorrowful book is rich with insight. The Inheritance of Exile tells an authentic story of Arab-American life--these characters are true, expressive, and moving. A fully engaging, satisfying collection indeed." -- Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Origin , Crescent , and The Language of Baklava "These dazzling stories of four Palestinian-American women and their families give us a rare... (more)
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  Dinarzad's Children

  An Anthology Of Contemporary Arab American Fiction

  by Pauline and Mattawa, Khaled Kaldas

  This collection offers up a mix of new and previously published works, creating a literary road map to Arab American literature today. The nineteen authors represented are of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Egyptian, and Libyan descent, some with established reputations, others new young writers. They tell tales about Muslims and Christians, recent immigrants and fully assimiliated Americans, teenagers and... (more)
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  Arab American Voices Edition 1. (Arab American Reference Library)

  by Loretta Hall

  Twenty primary source documents from speeches, memoirs, poems, novels, and autobiographies present the words of Americans with roots in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and other Arab nations.
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  Honeybee

  Poems & Short Prose

  by Naomi Shihab Nye

  Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another? In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet—and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.
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  E-Mails from Scheherazad (The University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series)

  by Mohja Kahf

  Kahf establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazade of the Thousand and One Nights shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated postcolonial... (more)
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  Habibi

  by Naomi Shihab Nye

  The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St. Louis all the way to Palestine. Though her father grew up there, Liyana knows very little about her family's Arab heritage. Her grandmother and the rest of her relatives who live in the West Bank are strangers, and speak a language she... (more)
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  Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry

  At no other time in American history has our imagination been so engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, "Inclined to Speak" gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. Impressive in its scope, this book provides... (more)
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  Map of Home, A

  by Randa Jarrar

  Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she... (more)
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  Poets For Palestine

  by Remi Kanazi (Editor)

  Poets For Palestine is a unique collection of poetry, spoken word, hip-hop, and art devoted to Palestine. Unifying a diverse range of poets who have used their words to elevate the consciousness of humanity, the book aims to bridge a younger generation of poets with those who, for decades, have cultivated and strengthened the poetic medium. Poets For Palestine includes poems by the late Mahmoud Darwish, Amiri... (more)