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By Susan Atefat-Peckham

The writers incorporated listed here are descendants of a number of cultural heritages
and mirror the views of assorted ethnic and cultural backgrounds:
Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Libyan, Palestinian, Syrian.
they're from various socioeconomic sessions and religious sensibilities:
Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and atheist, between others. but they coexist in
this quantity as easily American voices.
Atefat-Peckham amassed poetry and prose from 16 accomplished
writers whose works predicament a number of issues: from the familial cross–
cultural misunderstandings and conflicts within the works of Iranian American
writers Nahid Rachlin and Roger Sedarat to the mysticism of Khaled Mattawa‘
s poems; from the superstitions that govern characters in Diana Abu-
Jaber‘s prose to the devastating homesickness in Pauline Kaldas‘s characters.
choked with emotion and prepared observations, this assortment showcases
those writers‘ very important contributions to modern American literature.

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