This tab focuses on Arab American writers of short stories.
Susan Muaddi Darraj is a Palestinian American writer. She has written several articles on Arab and Arab American women and feminism, as well as a collection of short fiction, The Inheritance of Exile, which won several awards.
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Hedy Habra (born Sabbagh) is of Lebanese origin. She was born and raised in Heliopolis, Egypt and has lived in both countries. She is a poet, artist and essayist.
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Samia Serageldin is a novelist, writer and editor. Serageldin received her MS degree in Politics from London University and immigrated to the United States with her family in the early eighties. She calls Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home for the past thirty years.
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Joseph Geha was born in 1944 in Zahle, Lebanon and moved to the United States in 1946 with his family. He is currently a professor-emeritus at Iowa State University. Also, Geha was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and a Pushcart Prize in Fiction in 1990. His work was chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the Smithsonian Institution.
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