Swimming Toward the Light

Angela Tehaan Leone

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Angela Tehaan Leone's debut novel, Swimming Toward the Light, depicts a Lebanese immigrant family in Washington, DC in the 1950s and gives us entrée i... Lees meer

The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy

Frances Noble

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a story that is at once sublimely comic yet surprisingly erudite in the subjects ... Lees meer

The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy

Frances Noble

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a story that is at once sublimely comic yet surprisingly erudite in the subjects ... Lees meer

The Man Who Guarded the Bomb

Gregory Orfalea

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man tur... Lees meer

Letters from Cairo

Pauline Kaldas

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• When her husband is offered a six-month Fulbright grant to teach American literature at Cairo University, Pauline Kaldas embarks on a new journey--and... Lees meer

The Adam of Two Edens

Mahmoud Darwish

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost ... Lees meer

Does the Land Remember Me?

Aziz Shihab

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• 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 ... Lees meer

This Part of the World

Samuel Hazo

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Premier Caseres rules his country with a ruthlessness that puts him in the elite category of Truijillo, Mugabe, and Kim Jong Il. A potent orator with ... Lees meer

Remember Me to Lebanon

Evelyn Shakir

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Evelyn C. Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in different eras, from the 1960s to the present, peopled ... Lees meer

Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a cr... Lees meer

The Situe Stories

Frances Noble

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• The Situe, or Arab grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of eleven short stories, forming an irresistible drama of an extended Arab family ... Lees meer

Through and Through

Joseph Geha

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Treasured in the Arab-American literary community, Through and Through is a collection of ten broadly interrelated stories originally published in 199... Lees meer

Love Is Like Water and Other Stories

Samia Serageldin

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Like the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, a... Lees meer

Modern Arab American Fiction

Steven Salaita

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainl... Lees meer

Cairo House

Samia Serageldin

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• A work that depicts the glamourous Egypt of the pashas and King Farouk, the police state of the colonels who seized power in 1952, the post-Sadat year... Lees meer

Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a cr... Lees meer

My Name on His Tongue

Laila Halaby

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Best-selling novelist and PEN Award winner Halaby presents readers with her first collection of poetry. Intensely personal and marked with a trenchant... Lees meer

Hayati, My Life

Miriam Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Miriam Cooke's melic prose animates the existence of each of the women portrayed in her new novel. With Samya, we live in Palestine of the 1920s and a... Lees meer

Talking Through the Door

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• The writers included here are descendants of multiple cultural heritages and reflect the perspectives of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds: Egyp... Lees meer

A Community of Many Worlds

The Museum of the City of New York

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. The Museum of the C... Lees meer

Loom

Therese Chehade

• Paperback | Engels | Arab American Writing
• As a blizzard blankets the northeast United States, burying residents and shutting down airports, the Zaydan family eagerly awaits the arrival of Eva,... Lees meer

Modern Arab American Fiction

Steven Salaita

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainl... Lees meer

Running for All the Right Reasons

Ferial Masry, Susan Chenard

• Hardcover | Engels | Arab American Writing
• In 2004, Ferial Masry, born in Mecca, became the first Saudi American to run for political office in U.S. history. Masry made a spirited run for the C... Lees meer