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List Of Arab American Writers
This is a list of Arab-American writers. Arab-American poets Arab-American fiction writers Arab-American nonfiction writers and journalists See also *Arab American Book Award *Before Columbus Foundation *Kawkab America *The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States References {{Reflist Bibliography ''Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry'', edited by Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa, 1988, University of Utah Press. Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Abraham (poet)
George Abraham (جورج إبراهيم) is a Palestinian American poet. He is the author of ''Birthright'' and ''the specimen's apology''. Education He received his M.S. in Bioengineering at Harvard University, and now attends the Litowitz Creative Writing program at Northwestern University in Evanston. Poetry In 2018, Abraham won the Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, judged by Tommy Pico. He was named "Best Poet" at the 2017 College Union Poetry Slam International. He hopes to continue bringing awareness to Palestinian human rights and socio-economic struggles through art. Abraham is a board member for RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers) and a Kundiman fellow. ''the specimen's apology'' His illustrated chapbook ''the specimen's apology'' was published in January 2019 by Sibling Rivalry Press, and illustrated by Leila Abdelrazaq. In a review on The Rumpus, torrin a. greathouse said of ''the specimen's apology:'' "The works contained within ''the specimen’s apolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea Abdullah
Chelsea Abdullah is a Kuwaiti-American writer. She is the author of the fantastical ''Sandsea Trilogy''. Early life and education Abdullah was born and raised in Kuwait. She earned an MA in English from Duquesne University. She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder. Career In 2022, Abdullah published her debut novel, the first of an intended trilogy. Titled ''The Stardust Thief'', it's a story that takes place in a ''One Thousand and One Nights''-inspired fantasy world where jinn are persecuted and hunted for their healing blood, and their enchanted relics are coveted. ''Publishers Weekly'' praised Abdullah's "lush descriptions hatbring the setting to life" and her ability to create a "sense of mystery and enchantment". ''The New Arab'' applauded her inclusion of traditional Emirati folk tales and said she "beautifully eaves The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hanania
Ray Hanania (born April 17, 1953) is an American journalist, editor, public relations expert, reporter, and stand-up comedian of Palestinian descent. After the September 11 attacks, he created the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour and Comedy for Peace, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian comedians. He founded his own public relations firm, called Urban Strategies Group. Life and career Hanania was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Palestinian Christian parents. His mother is from Bethlehem; his father, George John Hanania, from a prominent Christian family in Jerusalem, served with the U.S. Army during World War II and with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of the CIA. He himself served with the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and in the Illinois Air National Guard. Hanania's wife, Alison, is Jewish and has two children, one daughter from a prior marriage who is Catholic and one son from his current marriage who is Jewish; they live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art. Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, craft, or applied Visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of '' The Prophet'', which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. Born in a village of the Ottoman-ruled Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate to a Maronite family, the young Gibran immigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States in 1895. As his mother worked as a seamstress, he was enrolled at a school in Boston, where his creative abilities were quickly noticed by a teacher who presented him to photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Gibran was sent back to his native land by his family at the age of fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Filloux
Catherine Filloux is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist and activist. Filloux's plays have confronted the issue of human rights in many nations. She is of French Algerian descent. She lives in New York City, New York. Biography Catherine Filloux's mother is from Oran, Algeria and her father from Guéret, France. Of her parents, Filloux says, "My father was born in the center of France, and he became an adventurer," who sailed from France to New York in a catamaran. "My mother loved literature" and wrote poetry in both French and English. As a child, Filloux grew up with her parents and four siblings in San Diego. She says, "We grew up... in this kind of schism of Algeria, France, and San Diego. So it made for a background of not really knowing where one belongs..." Filloux received her MFA in dramatic writing from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU) and her French baccalaureate in philosophy with honors in Toulon, France. CA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vance Bourjaily
Vance Nye Bourjaily (September 17, 1922 – August 31, 2010) was an American novelist, playwright, journalist, creative writing teacher, and essayist.T. Rees Shapirofrom ''The Washington Post'', September 4, 2010. Life Bourjaily was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Monte Ferris Bourjaily, a Lebanese immigrant who was a journalist and later became editor of the United Features Syndicate, and Barbara Webb, an American-born features author and novelist.Bruce Weber''Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87''from ''The New York Times'', September 3, 2010. Bourjaily moved several times during his youth. His childhood was spent in Connecticut, Virginia, and New York. Bourjaily graduated from Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia in 1939. After graduating, Bourjaily enrolled in Bowdoin College. With the coming of World War II, Bourjaily became a volunteer ambulance driver from 1942 to 1944. He then served two years in the army from 1944 to 1946. Bourjaily's time in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel, ''The Exorcist'', and for his 1974 screenplay for the film adaptation of the same name. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ''The Exorcist'', and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer. The film also earned Blatty a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama as producer. Born and raised in New York City, Blatty received his bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University in 1950, and his master's degree in English literature from the George Washington University. Following completion of his master's degree in 1954, he joined the United States Air Force and served in the Psychological Warfare Division where he attained the rank of first lieutenant. After service in the air force, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Beirut. After the success of ''The Exorcist'', Blatty r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alligator And Other Stories
An alligator is a large reptile in the Crocodilia order in the genus ''Alligator'' of the family Alligatoridae. The two extant species are the American alligator (''A. mississippiensis'') and the Chinese alligator (''A. sinensis''). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago. The name "alligator" is probably an anglicized form of ', the Spanish term for "the lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included ''allagarta'' and ''alagarto''. Evolution Alligators and caimans split in North America during the early Tertiary or late Cretaceous (about 53 million to about 65 million years ago). The Chinese alligator split from the American alligator about 33 million years ago and probably descended from a lineage that crossed the Bering land bridge during the Neogene. The moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dima Alzayat
Dima Alzayat is a Syrian American author and associate lecturer. Alzayat was born in Damascus, Syria and grew up in San Jose, California. She is author of the short story collection ''Alligator and Other Stories'', published in 2020. She is represented by the Blake Friedmann agency. Her stories have appeared in the literary magazine Prairie Schooner. Awards Alzayat was awarded the Bernice Slote Award in 2015, and in 2018 the Northern Writers' Award. In 2017 she won the Bristol Short Story Prize for her story ''Ghusl''. In 2019 she won the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Tom-Gallon Trust Award for ''Once We Were Syrians''. In 2021 Alzayat was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and James Tait Black Prize for fiction for ''Alligator and Other Stories''. She was named the 2022-23 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saladin Ahmed
Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book ''Throne of the Crescent Moon'' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.Locus Awards Winners , '''', June 29, 2013. Ahmed's fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including '''', |
Mornings In Jenin
''Mornings in Jenin'', (2010, U.S.; originally published as ''The Scar of David'', 2006, United States and ''Les Matins de Jenin,'' France) is a novel by author Susan Abulhawa. Background ''Mornings in Jenin'' was originally published in the United States in 2006 as ''The Scar of David''. The novel was translated into French and published as ''Les Matins de Jenin.'' It was then translated into 27 languages. Bloomsbury Publishing reissued the novel in the United States as ''Mornings in Jenin'' (February, 2010) after slight editing."Author's Note: ''Mornings in Jenin'': pp. 323-4 ''Mornings in Jenin'' is the first mainstream novel in English to explore life in post-1948 Palestine. The novel was partially inspired by the Ghassan Kanafani novel '' Return to Haifa''. Critical reception Reviews Anjali Joseph of ''The Independent'' writes that "Susan Abulhawa's novel, first published in the US in 2006 but since reworked, follows the Abulheja family, Yehya and Basima and their two son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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