Hadha Baladuna : Arab American narratives of boundary and belonging / edited by Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham and Sally Howell.

"Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging begins with stories of immigration and exile by following newcomers' attempts to assimilate into American society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell have assembled a cast of emerging and established writer...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zeineddine, Ghassan (Editor)
Abraham, Nabeel (Editor)
Howell, Sally (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2022]
Series:Made in Michigan writers series.
Subjects:
American literature > Arab American authors.
Arab Americans > Literary collections.
American literature > 21st century.
Arab Americans.
Creative nonfiction.
Essays.
Personal narratives.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Creative nonfiction.
Essays.
Personal narratives.
Physical Description:vi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Sally Howell, Ghassan Zeineddine, and Nabeel Abraham
  • An atlas of homes / Ghassan Zeineddine
  • Watan / Hanan Ali Nasser
  • Baghdad in Detroit / Dunya Mikhail
  • In retrospect / Yasmin Alqamoussi
  • Word man : a quest for self-discovery through Shakespeare, 2Pac, and the Holy Qur'an / Yousef Alqamoussi
  • Alifabet soup at the Lebanese-Syrian Border, I bought my bowl from the kitchen warehouse plus Warren across from Shatila / Yasmine Rukia
  • On the margins: queer, Arab, American / Mai Jakubowski
  • Not Arab enough / Jeff Karoub
  • A conversation with Rania Matar / Rania Matar
  • Thinking Detroit / Hayan Charara
  • Personal political poem / Hayan Carara
  • The day Phil Levine died / Hayan Charara
  • That summer that year during the heat wave / Hayan Charara
  • 1979 / Hayan Charara
  • Apolkaluptein / Hayan Charara
  • Urban nomad / Teri Bazzi
  • Notes on a Dearborn / Kamelya Omayma Youssef
  • American road trip / Kamelya Omayma Youssef
  • It might have been otherwise: an Arab American story / Nabeel Abraham
  • My Dearborn / Sally Howell.