05143nam 2201021 a 450 991045751110332120200520144314.01-61075-126-4(CKB)2550000000075974(EBL)2007577(SSID)ssj0000553362(PQKBManifestationID)11349451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000553362(PQKBWorkID)10506498(PQKB)10553036(MiAaPQ)EBC2007577(OCoLC)769187852(MdBmJHUP)muse5464(Au-PeEL)EBL2007577(CaPaEBR)ebr10503154(CaONFJC)MIL796127(EXLCZ)99255000000007597420100921d2009 ub 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrDinarzad's children[electronic resource] an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction /edited by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa2nd ed.Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press20091 online resource (426 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55728-912-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404).I. First generation: The new world / Susan Muaddi Darraj -- Airport / Pauline Kaldas -- In-country / Rabih Alameddine -- Easy to say / Sahar Mustafah -- How we are bound / Patricia Sarrafian Ward; II. Cross-cultural encounters: News from Phoenix / Joseph Geha -- Edge of rock / May Mansoor Munn -- Manar of Hama / Mohja Kahf -- Salad lady / Rawi Hage -- Coal bin / D.H. Melhem -- My Elizabeth / Diana Abu-Jaber ; III. Relationships: Oh, Lebanon / Evelyn Shakir -- And what else? / Joseph Geha -- Stage directions for an extended conversation / Yussef El Guindi -- The wedding night / Zahie El Kouri -- Distances / Hedy Habra ; IV. Politics: Hair, prayer, and men / Laila Halaby -- Ohio / Yussef El Guindi -- Maryam and Marisa / David Williams -- It's not about that / Samia Serageldin ; V. Looking homeward: A day at the beach / Alia Yunis -- How I became my mother's daughter / Laila Lalami -- Mariam / Hedy Habra -- Sugar in Amman / Amal Masri ; VI. Shaping identities: Lost in freakin' Yonkers / Randa Jarrar -- He had dreamed of returning / Pauline Kaldas -- First snow / Khaled Mattawa -- The fifty-foot woman / Nabeel Abraham -- The Lebanon-Detroit Express / Alia Yunis -- The American way / Frances Khirallah Noble.Pauline Kaldas is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University. She was born in Egypt and immigrated to the United States in 1969. She is the author of Letters from Cairo and Egyptian Compass.Khaled Mattawa, a 2014 MacArthur fellow, is associate professor Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was born in Libya and immigrated to the United States in 1979. He is the author of four books of poetry and a number of translations of contemporary Arab poetry. His work has won two Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship,American fictionArab American authorsAmerican fiction20th centuryAmerican fiction21st centuryArab AmericansFictionShort stories, AmericanElectronic books.American fictionArab American authors.American fictionAmerican fictionArab AmericansShort stories, American.813/.010892705Kaldas Pauline1961-893717Mattawa Khaled893718Darraj Susan Muaddi893719Kaldas Pauline1961-893717Alameddine Rabih893720Mustafah Sahar893721Ward Patricia Sarrafian1969-893722Geha Joseph854379Munn May Mansoor893723Kahf Mohja1967-893724Hage Rawi893725Melhem D. H893726Abu-Jaber Diana559760Shakir Evelyn1938-792102Geha Joseph854379El Guindi Yussef893727El Kouri Zahie893728Habra Hedy893729Halaby Laila893730El Guindi Yussef893727Williams David1953 June 18-893731Serageldin Samia893732Yunis Alia893733Lalami Laila1968-893734Habra Hedy893729Masri Amal893735Jarrar Randa893736Kaldas Pauline1961-893717Mattawa Khaled893718Abraham Nabeel893737Yunis Alia893733Noble Frances Khirallah893738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457511103321Dinarzad's children1996385UNINA