Dinarzad’s Children
An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction
Second Edition
Edited by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction

I. First Generation
“The New World” by Susan Muaddi Darra
“Airport” by Pauline Kaldas
“In-Country” by Rabih Alammedine
“Easy to Say” by Sahar Mustafah
“How We Are Bound” by Patricia Sarrafian Ward

II. Cross-Cultural Encounters
“News from Phoenix” by Joseph Geha
“Edge of Rock” by May Mansoor Munn
“Manar of Hamma” by Mohja Kahf
“The Salad Lady” by Rawi Hage
“The Coal Bin” by D. H. Melhem
“My Elizabeth” by Diana Abu-Jaber

III. Relationships
“Oh, Lebanon” by Evelyn Shakir
“And What Else?” by Joseph Geha
“Stage Directions” by Yusef El Gundi
“The Wedding Night” by Zahie El Kouri
“Distances” by Hedy Habra

IV. Politics
“Hair, Prayer, and Men” by Laila Halaby
“Ohio” by Yussef El Guindi
“Maryam and Marisa” by David Williams
“It’s Not About That” by Samia Serageldin

V. Looking Homeward
“A Day at the Beach” by Alia Yunis
“How I Became My Mother’s Daughter” by Laila Lalami
“Mariam” by Hedy Habra
“Sugar in Amman” by Amal Masri

VI. Shaping Identities
“Lost in Freakin’ Yonkers” by Randa Jarrar
“He Had Dreamed of Returning” by Pauline Kaldas
“First Snow” by Khaled Mattawa
“The Fifty-Foot Woman” by Nabeel Abraham
“The Lebanon-Detroit Express” by Alia Yunis
“The American Way” by Frances Khirallah Noble

Contributors
Selected Bibliography of Contemporary Arab American Literature