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...
Tagged: Arab American
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: Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Author: Lina Gharbi Universidad de Valladolid Stunned by war, and, shockingly, no longer young, or married, or with my daughter, Laila. (15) Our book recommendation of the month is Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a...
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...
Cultural Appropriation in Craig Thompson’s Graphic Novel Habibi
Author: Safa Al-shammary University of Granada Download PDF version Craig Thompson’s Habibi (2011) is an American graphic novel based on a romantic fable that is set in an imaginary and modern Middle Eastern country. For the past century, the political turmoil...
Book of the Month: Amen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid
Author: Lina Gharbi University of Valladolid “For you, a thousand times over.” “…there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.” Love is “unconditional.” But, regret !! it is always...
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...
