Selected Bibliography of Contemporary Arab-American Literature

Abinader, Elmaz. Children of the Roojme. New York: Norton, 1991.

---. In the Country of My Dreams…. Oakland, CA: Sufi Warrior, 1999.

Abu-Jaber, Diana. Arabian Jazz. New York: Harcourt, 1993.

---. Crescent.  New York: Norton, 2003.

---. Origin. New York: Norton, 2008.

---. The Language of Baklava. Random, 2006.

Adnan, Etel. The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo, 1985.

---. Sitt Marie Rose. Trans. Georgina Kleege. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo, 1982.

Ahmed, Leila. A Border Passage. New York: Farrar, 1999.

Alameddine, Rabih. The Hakawati. New York: Random, 2008.

---. I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. New York: Norton, 2002.

---. Koolaids: Or The Art of War. New York : Picador, 1998.

---. The Perv: Stories. New York : Picador, 1999.

Al Aswany, Alaa. Chicago. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Amin, Dina, and Hill, Holly, eds. Salaam/Peace: An Anthology of Middle-Eastern

American Playwrights. Theatre Communications Group, 2009.

Awad, Joseph. The Neon Distances. Francestown, NH: Golden Quill, 1980.

---. Shenandoah Long Ago. Richmond, VA: Poet’s, 1990.

Bitar, Walid. 2 Guys on Holy Land. Lebanon, NH: UP of New England, 1993.

Boullata, Kamal, Ed. And Not Surrender: American Poets on Lebanon. Washington, DC: Arab-American Cultural Foundation, 1982.

Charara, Hayan. The Alchemist’s Diary. New York: Hanging Loose, 2001.

---. Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry.  

            Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 2008.

---. The Sadness of Others.  Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon UP, 2006.

Darraj, Susan Muaddi. The Inheritance of Exile. Notre Dame, IN: U of

Notre Dame P, 2007.

---. Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing. Praeger, 2004.

Geha, Joseph. Through and Through: Toledo Stories. St. Paul: Graywolf, 1990.

El Guindi, Yussef. Back of the Throat. Dramatists Play Service, 2006.

---. Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s and Karima’s City. Dramatists Play Service,

 2007.

Hage, Rawi. DeNiro's Game. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Halaby, Laila. West of Jordan. Boston: Beacon, 2003.

---. Once in a Promised Land. Boston: Beacon, 2007.

Hammad, Suheir. Born Palestinian, Born Black. New York: Harlem River, 1996.

---. Breaking Poems. New York: Cypher, 2008.

---.Drops of This Story. New York: Harlem River, 1996.

---. ZaatarDiva. New York: Cypher, 2008.

Hamod, H.S. (Sam). Dying with the Wrong Name, New and Selected Poems, 1968-1979. New York: Anthe, 1980.

Handal, Nathalie. The Lives of Rain. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2005.

---. The Neverfield Poem. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo, 1999.

---, ed. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2001.

Hazo, Sam. The Holy Surprise of Right Now: Selected & New Poems. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1996.

Jarrar, Randa. A Map of Home. New York: Other Press, 2008, Penguin Press, 2009.

Joseph, Lawrence. Before Our Eyes. New York: Farrar, 1993.

---. Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993. New York: Farrar, 2005.

---. Curriculum Vitae. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1988.

---. Into It. New York: Farrar, 2007.

Kadi, Joanna, Ed. Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists. Boston: South End P, 1994.

---. Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker. Boston: South End P, 1999.

Kahf, Mohja. E-mails From Scheherazad. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 2003.

---. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Kaldas, Pauline. Egyptian Compass. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2007.

---. Letters from Cairo. Cincinnati: CustomWords, 2006.

Kaldas, Pauline, and Mattawa, Khaled, eds. Dinarzad's Children. Fayetteville, AR:  

U of Arkansas P, 2004.

Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin , 2005.

---. Secret Son. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2009.

Majjaj, Lisa Suheir. Geographies of Light. Web Del Sol, 2009.

Mattawa, Khaled.  Amorisco. Keene, NY: Ausable, 2008.

---. Ismailia Eclipse.  Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow, 1995.

---. Zodiac of Echoes. Keene, NY: Ausable, 2003.

Mattawa, Khaled and Munir Akash, eds. Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing. New York: Syracuse U P, 1999.

Melhem, D.H. Blight. New York: Riverrun, 2003.

---. Conversations with a Stonemason. San Francisco: Ikon, 2003.

---. New York Poems. New York: Syracuse UP, 2005.

---. Rest in Love. New York: Confrontation Magazine, 1995.

---. Stigma & The Cave. New York: Syracuse UP, 2007.

Melhem, D.H. and Leila Diab, Eds. A Different Path: An Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers. Detroit: Ridgeway, 2000.

Noble, Frances. The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy. New York: Syracuse UP, 2007.

---. The Situe Stories.  New York: Syracuse UP, 2000.

Nye, Naomi Shihab, ed. The Flag of Childhood. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1998.

---. Fuel. Rochester, New York: Boa, 1998.

---. Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1996.

---. Red Suitcase. Rochester, NY: Boa, 1994. 

---, ed. The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.

---. Words Under the Words. Portland, OR: Eighth Mountain, 1980.

Orfalea, Gregory. Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics. U of Arizona P, 2009.

---. The Capital of Solitude. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review, 1988.

---, ed. Wrapping the Grape Leaves: A Sheaf of Contemporary Arab-American Poets. Washington, DC: Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, 1982.

Orfalea, Gregory, and Sharif Elmusa, eds. Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1988.

Serageldin, Samia. The Cairo House. New York: Syracuse UP, 2003.

---. The Naqib's Daughter. London: Fourth Estate, 2008.

Shakir, Evelyn. Remember Me to Lebanon:  Stories of Lebanese Women in America.

New York: Syracuse UP, 2003.

Ward, Patricia Sarrafian.  The Bullet Collection. St. Paul: Graywolf, 2003.

Williams, David. Far Sides of the Only World. Durham, NC: Carolina Wren, 2004.

---. Traveling Mercies. Cambridge, MA: Alice James, 1993.

 Yunis, Alia. The Night Counter. New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2009.