Book of the month: Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz
I’m tired of fighting it out here, I don’t have much idea of what it is to be Arab, but that’s what the family is always saying we are. I want to know what part of me is Arab. I...
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Book of the Month: Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Count Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy lied. I did not know if all happy families resemble each other as I do not know any content families. In Lebanon during the war, however, all unhappy families were not unhappy in their own way....
Book of the Month: Joseph Geha’s Lebanese Blonde
Sam would never mention such a thing to his cousin, how he sometimes found himself thinking – well not exactly, not consciously anyway, more like daydreaming – about what if he went back to the old country and discovered that...
Book of the Month: Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent
Our book recommendation of the month is Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent, an award winning fiction and romance novel, set in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. This multilayered love story puts together a green-eyed thirty nine year old chef Sirine and...
Book of the month: Susan M. Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly
I became angry too, when the alarm sounded, because nobody seemed upset, not even Mr. Emmitt. And I was angry because I had been promised by Mama, on the airplane to Philadelphia, as I violently chewed gum the stewardess had...
A Man of Many Talents: Anniversary of the Birth of Mark Twain
Download PDF version Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. On November 30th, 185 years ago, Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in a tiny village of Florida, Missouri. He was not only a...
Book of the month: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home
There was a lot that confused me. Why were there so many commercials on TV? In Kuwait and Egypt there was a commercial segment and you could opt not to watch it. What exactly was daylight saving time? And did...
Book of the month: Edward W. Said’s Culture & Imperialism
Our book recommendation of the month is Edward W. Said’s Culture & Imperialism, a collection of essays that caught academia’s attention and stood out around the world amongst reviewers and critics. Published in 1993, this outstanding work goes beyond his...
