By Arwa Almasaari / Arab America Contributing Writer The tragic events of September 11, 2001, led to a rise in Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in the U.S. However, it is important to recognize that these attacks were not the beginning but rather one of several turning points in the history of discrimination against Arabs and … Continued
Photo by Nina Subin BY: LINCOLN MICHEL SOURCE: VICE Osama Alomar’s ‘The Teeth of the Comb’ is a surreal story collection about human dignity in the face of hatred and absurdity. Osama Alomar is, in many ways, living the dream he’d had since he was a teenager. In April, the Syrian-born author published his second … Continued
Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge by Ezzedine Choukri Fishere is published by Hoopoe Fiction, American University in Cairo Press. By: M Lynx Qualey Source: The National Ezzedine Choukri Fishere is a novelist fond of the unlikeable. His Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge, shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2012, opens from the point of view … Continued
photo: Susan Abulhawa By: Miriam Abdollahi Source: Qantara.de With ″Mornings in Jenin″ and ″The Blue Between Sky and Water″, Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa has had two bestsellers in Germany. She writes about misery and trauma, love and the Palestinians′ joie de vivre. In interview with Miriam Abdollahi, she talks about the way literature is … Continued
By: David Green Source: Haaretz “Salt Houses,” by Hala Alyan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 320 pp., $26 The reader who approaches “Salt Houses,” debut novelist Hala Alyan’s multi-generational portrait of a Palestinian family in exile, with expectations of grand pronouncements about right and wrong, or victim and perpetrator, will be disappointed. Nor is there much action … Continued
by: Bruce Rosenbloom Source: HIgher Education The Carolina Summer Reading Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is drawing attention to members of a minority group and their pursuit of the American Dream with its latest literature recommendation. Book selection committee chair Rita Balaban claimed that How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi was … Continued
“The Profane” by Zayd Dohrn at Playwrights Horizons. Pictured: Ali Reza Farahnakian, Francis Benhamou, Babak Tafti, Tala Ashe, and Heather Raffo. (Photo by Joan Marcus) BY: ALLISON CONSIDINE SOURCE: AMERICAN THEATRE Members of the Middle Eastern-American theatre community took to the internet last week to express growing concerns about the representation of Middle Eastern Americans … Continued
By: Irum Ibrahim Source: The Huffington Post You can find her tucked into a cozy chair as she winds down after a long day — arms gently rested on her desk, pen and paper in hand, and a glass of water to her right. Although she is now 24 years old, Isra Al-thibeh has been … Continued
BY: STEVE INSKEEP Source: NPR- Morning Edition At the very start of Hala Alyan’s novel Salt Houses, a woman buys a coffee set — a dozen cups, a coffee pot, a tray. It’s a simple act that unexpectedly becomes painful. The woman is Palestinian — part of a family displaced after the founding of Israel … Continued
E. Nina Rothe The Huffington Post In 2009, Cherien Dabis’ first feature ‘Amreeka’ created the perfect buzz at the Sundance film festival where it premiered. The Hollywood Reporter touted it as a film that re-energized the immigrant stories genre with “refreshing wit, honest emotions, incisive observations and a perfect cast she [Dabis] literally flew around … Continued
By Faisal O’Keefe Green Prophet April is Arab American Heritage Month, and here are six publications from a half dozen Arab American authors whose work is influencing the literary landscape of the USA, and beyond. I’ve chosen one for each of the six Muslim-majority nations whose citizens are currently banned from entering the America. Crack … Continued
Nathalie Handal: winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing Published by the Irish Times Europa Nostra By Nathalie Handal Now that we are guests in our bodies, how do we survive? Zainab operated a boat to be close to the hundred and three members of her family who drowned. Bassem learned to … Continued
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