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• But You Don't Look Arab

  and Other Tales of Unbelonging

  Gorani, Hala, 1970-

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  "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants."

• Dancing Into the Light

  An Arab American Girlhood in the Middle East

  Abdul-Baki, Kathryn K.,

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  "During the early American presence in Iran under the Shah and the burgeoning years of Kuwait's early oil boom, Kathryn Abdul-Baki grows up within both the expatriate Western communities and the larger Middle Eastern societies of Kuwait…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between Two Moons

  a Novel

  Abdel Gawad, Aisha,

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  "A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan."

• Arabiyya

  Recipes From the Life of An Arab in Diaspora

  Assil, Reem,

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  A James Beard Award semifinalist and California bakery owner highlights the origins and evolution of her native Arabic food with inspired recipes for flatbreads, dips, snacks, and platters including hazelnut-praline baklava Rolls with milk…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unlasting Home

  a Novel

  Al-Nakib, Mai, 1970-

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  "The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women." Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trace Evidence

  Poems

  Shanahan, Charif, 1983-

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  "In 'Trace Evidence,' the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut 'Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing,' Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invasive Species

  Helal, Marwa,

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  "In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory."

• The Other Americans

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  "From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Exist Too Much

  a Novel

  Arafat, Zaina,

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  "On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Woman Is No Man

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture. Also available as an eBook.

• The Thirty Names of Night

  a Novel

  Joukhadar, Zeyn,

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  "From the author of the acclaimed and award-winning debut The Map of Salt and Stars, a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts." Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Is An Ex-country

  a Memoir

  Jarrar, Randa,

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  "Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this 'viscerally elegant' and 'intimately edgy' memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

  a Memoir of Love and Resistance

  Sarsour, Linda, 1980-

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  "Women's March co-organizer Linda Sarsour shares how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized and celebrated activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The January Children

  Elhillo, Safia,

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  The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home.

• The Angel of History

  a Novel

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beauty of Your Face

  a Novel

  Mustafah, Sahar,

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  "A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut."

• Out of Place

  a Memoir

  Said, Edward W.

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  The Palestinian American describes his privileged childhood in Jerusalem, his education in the Middle East and the United States, and the effects of the formation of Israel on his family.

• Grape Leaves

  a Century of Arab-American Poetry

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• The Language of Baklava

  Abu-Jaber, Diana

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  Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts with her Arab-American cousins to goat stew feasts under a Bedouin tent in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unnecessary Woman

  Alameddine, Rabih

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  " In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut." Also available as an eBook.