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....
PopMeC CFP | ECR/Grad Students, call for book reviews
Download PDF version of the call We aim at recommending books that we find relevant in the realm of the representation of the US, as well as in the related cultural studies. We’d like to share books that we found...
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: James McBride’s Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
Our Book recommendation for this month is James McBride’s Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul, a book that anyone with an interest in the United States should read, James Brown devotees and all. As...
Book of the Month: Amanda Leduc’s Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Author: Clémentine Beyens Université de Lorraine Our book recommendation of this month is Amanda Leduc’s Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. This book questions the use of disability and disabled characters mostly fairytales whether they are ancient tales...
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: Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library
Author: Nick Kelson-Packer Weber State University Our book of the month recommendation is Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library. Imagine slipping into a parallel world where instead of getting that chocolate sundae at your local ice cream parlor, you instead...
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: 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...
