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In this provocative collection, Kim Jensen gives voice to the struggle of those who seek love in a world saturated with brutality and aggression. Using accessible language and raw imagery, this work offers a searing portrait of the ruins of love and war. The concise lyrics in Bread Alone condemn the violence in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, while exploring the intimate consequences of these and other injustices. Darkly humorous, grotesque, sorrowful, outraged, and sometimes poignantly hopeful, these poems possess a strange beauty and remind us of the key purposes of poetry--to warn and to revive our sense of conscience and connection.

Samia Serageldin's heroine, the daughter of a politically prominent, land-owning Egyptian family, witnesses the changes sweeping her homeland. Looking back to the glamorous Egypt of the pashas and King Faruk, Serageldin moves forward to the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952 and the disastrous consequences of Nasser's sequestration policies.Through well-chosen portraits and telling descriptions of the era's fashions and furnishings, Serageldin conveys detailed social and cultural information. She offers a glimpse of the beach at Agami in the 1960s and conveys the change in mood through the Sadat years. Serageldin's fictional treatment of recent Egyptian history includes key events leading to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, such as the assassination of writer Yussef Siba'yi and the harassment of theologian Nasr Abu Zayd.Serageldin's heroine goes into exile in Europe and the United States but returns to Egypt in an attempt to reconcile her past and present. Charting fresh territory for the American reader, this semi-autobiographical novel is one of the most sensitive and accessible documents of historical change in Egyptian life. The book will appeal to a general audience and will be particularly useful to students interested in the social customs of the upper class in Egypt in the Nasser and Sadat years.

What is the relationship between US imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the lives of Arab Americans? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? This book locates September 11 as a turning point in the history of Arab American engagements with race, multiculturalism, and Americanization.

As a blizzard blankets the northeast US, burying residents and shutting down airports, the Farrah family eagerly awaits the arrival of Eva, a cousin visiting from Lebanon after a long separation. Over the course of several days, while Eva is stranded in New York City, Chehade's nuanced story unfolds in the reminiscences and anxieties of each family member.

Best-selling novelist and PEN Award winner Halaby presents readers with her first collection of poetry. Intensely personal and marked with a trenchant wit, these poems form a memoir following Halaby's life as they explore the disorientation of exile, the challenge of navigating two cultures, and the struggle to shape her own creative identity.

An overview of Arab-American fiction as it has developed over the past twenty years.

A collection of stories that reveal one woman's exploration of identity, finding it in both the sweeping backdrop of Egyptian history and the quotidian exchanges with friends and family.

Contains tales that are set in different eras since 1960s to the turn of the twentieth century. This title offers multiple perspectives on the experience of Lebanese women in the United States.

Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey.

Includes stories that chronicle the lives of the Matters, a captivating, tragic, yet ultimately exultant Arab American family.

The writers included in this collection are descendants of multiple cultural heritages and reflect the perspectives of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds: Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Syrian. They are from diverse socioeconomic classes and spiritual sensibilities: Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and atheist, among others. Yet they coexist in this volume as simply American voices.

A collection of broadly interrelated stories that offer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. It offers a passionate, unvarnished glimpse into the lives of an immigrant community.

Premier Caseres rules his country with a ruthlessness that puts him in the elite category of Truijillo, Mugabe, and Kim Jong II. A potent orator with a martinet style of leadership, Caseres' ability to instill fear and reverence in his people has secured his place in power. However, the dictator's human frailties run as deep as his stoicism.

Depicts a Lebanese immigrant family in Washington, DC, in the 1950s and gives us entree into a male-dominated, independence-stifling culture where female roles were rigidly prescribed.

Through a collection of letters, journal entries, essays, and even local recipes, this work provides a detailed portrait of life in Cairo, recording daily revelations. This work offers insight into the complexities of Egyptian culture, alternately taking on roles of linguist and political interpreter.

This novel gives voice to the experiences of three generations of Palestinian women whose lives are torn apart by war, rape, dispossession and poverty. Samya lives in Palestine of the 1920s, Asia experiences the massacre of Deir Assin, and Maryam survives war and diaspora.

The situe, or Arabic grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of stories as they seek to capture the integration of Christian Arab women into American culture. The tales contain elements of magic and stoicism, presenting characters rich in independence and creativity.

New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. This is a collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities.

A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.

In 2004, Ferial Masry, born in Mecca, became the first Saudi American to run for political office in US history. This book chronicles Masry's remarkable life, from her childhood in Mecca and her decision to emigrate to the United States to her career as an educator and her bold entry into the world of politics.