05111nam 2201009 a 450 991082782570332120230721020453.01-61075-126-4(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 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, AmericanAmerican fictionArab American authors.American fictionAmerican fictionArab AmericansShort stories, American.813/.010892705Kaldas Pauline1961-1254394Mattawa Khaled1168700Darraj Susan Muaddi1625305Kaldas Pauline1961-1254394Alameddine Rabih1625306Mustafah Sahar1625307Ward Patricia Sarrafian1969-1625308Geha Joseph1595544Munn May Mansoor1625309Kahf Mohja1967-893724Hage Rawi1625310Melhem D. H1625311Abu-Jaber Diana559760Shakir Evelyn1938-792102Geha Joseph1595544El Guindi Yussef1625312El Kouri Zahie1625313Habra Hedy1625314Halaby Laila1625315El Guindi Yussef1625312Williams David1953 June 18-1625316Serageldin Samia1625317Yunis Alia1625318Lalami Laila1968-1625319Habra Hedy1625314Masri Amal1625320Jarrar Randa1168717Kaldas Pauline1961-1254394Mattawa Khaled1168700Abraham Nabeel1625321Yunis Alia1625318Noble Frances Khirallah1625322MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827825703321Dinarzad's children3960712UNINA