Arab-American Literature
Volume 34, Number 1
November-December 2012
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Philip Metres’s Introduction to Focus: Beyond the Shadow of the Towers: Arab-American Literature
Marwa Helal’s “The Vernacular Home”
Joseph Harrington reviews Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville
Angele Ellis reviews Thérèse Soukar Chehade’s Loom
M. Lynx Qualey reviews Diana Abu-Jaber’s Birds of Paradise
Dale Smith reviews Farid Matuk’s This Isa Nice Neighborhood
Cheryl Dumesnil reviews Deema K. Shehabi’s Thirteen Departures from the Moon
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