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The night counter : a novel
A magic carpet ride examining the lives of Fatima Abdullah and her huge dysfunctional family. Imitating Scheherazade, Fatima spins her own tales to the legendary storyteller, Scheherazade. And she has plenty of material: Fatima is dying, and more interested in her prized possessions, including a house in Lebanon, than in reuniting her splintered offspring and her estranged husband, Ibraham.
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A Day at the Beach
When the dynamite went off at the bakery across the street and blasted the glass off our flat’s balcony door, which overlooked the Mediterranean, Marwan and I were watching theSix Million Dollar Man. It was the episode where he meets Jamie, the Bionic Woman, not that I cared how that turned out. Marwan was only thirteen years old, and at fifteen, I had a whole lot more on my mind than stupid Steve Austin. Right after school but before I did my homework, I had secretly eaten two bowls offatee, and I was having a hell of a
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The Lebanon-Detroit Express
Whether Detroit was slicked with ice or whether it was Ford-engine hot—like it was today—the Number 33 bus always arrived at exactly 5:12 p.m., without fail. That was precisely eleven minutes behind schedule, according to the DDOT timetable that Ibrahim had memorized and adjusted for reality. As he did every Wednesday and Friday at 5:12 p.m., Ibrahim let his cane guide his weary legs up the bus steps, quite aware that today was a long time and a world away from his boyhood, when he used to skip up Lebanon’s mountains in search of fresh figs for his
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Dinarzad's Children
The first edition of Dinarzad's Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans. This expanded edition includes sixteen new stories -thirty in all-and new voices and is now organized into sections that invite readers to enter the stories from a variety of directions. Here are stories that reveal the initial adjustments of immigrants, the challenges of forming relationships, the political nuances of being Arab American, the vision directed towards homeland, and the ongoing search for balance and identity. The contributors are D. H. Melhem, Mohja Khaf, Rabih Alameddine, Rawi Hage, Laila Halaby, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Alia Yunis, Diana Abu Jaber, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Samia Serageldin, Alia Yunis, Joseph Geha, May Monsoor Munn, Frances Khirallah Nobel, Nabeel Abraham, Yussef El Guindi, Hedy Habra, Randa Jarrar, Zahie El Kouri, Amal Masri, Sahar Mustafah, Evelyn Shakir, David Williams, Pauline Kaldas, and Khaled Mattawa.
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Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema
Devi, Gayatri and Najat Rahman, eds. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2014.
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