Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide

Index

153 Index Abdel-Nasser, Gamal, 120–21, 122, 135 Abinader, Elmaz, 97 Abu-Jaber, Diana, 96–111 Abulhawa, Susan, 125, 134–39 Achebe, Chinua, 29 Adams, Lorraine, 54 Adnan, Etel, 12–20, 30, 31, 45, 96, 97 Alameddine, Rabih, 25, 42–59, 92, 104 Al-Qaida, 54 Arab American studies, 3, 5 Asian American studies, 5, 7 Ball, Alan, 125 Behdad, Ali, 34 Bernhardt, Sarah, 47, 49, 50 Bin Laden, Osama, 54 Blatty, William Peter, 107 Brox, Jane, 107 Chappelle, Dave, 137 Charara, Hayan, 94 Conrad, Joseph, 114 Crusades, 16 De Niro, Robert, 24–25 Eisenhower, Dwight, 121 Erian, Alicia, 125–30, 132 Evans, Alice, 97, 98, 101 Fadda-Conrey, Carol, 102 Faruk, King, 120, 121 Faulkner, William, 21 Field, Sally, 93 Fisk, Robert, 22 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 120 Gana, Nouri, 112 Geha, Joseph, 60–64, 65, 68, 72, 73, 74, 96 Gibran, Kahlil, 97 Hage, Rawi, 12, 20–27, 30, 31 Halaby, Laila, 79–95 Hassan, Waïl S., 49, 52 Heikal, Mohamed, 121 Islam, 7, 32, 35, 36, 37, 39–40 Israel-Palestine conflict, 7, 135, 138 Jagger, Mick, 83 Jarrar, Randa, 125, 130–34 Kahf, Mohja, 32–41, 117 154 | I n d e x Kanafani, Ghassan, 137 Koontz, Dean, 107 Lahiri, Jhumpa, 29 Lalami, Laila, 113, 116–20 Lebanese Civil War, 7, 11–12, 15, 19, 20–21, 24, 26, 30, 31, 42, 44, 46, 57, 59 Majaj, Lisa Suhair, 78 Majid, Anouar, 113–16 Mamdani, Mahmood, 17 Matar, Hisham, 112 Mattawa, Khaled, 112 Middle East studies, 6, 7 Mossad, 22–23 Muaddi Darraj, Susan, 60, 71, 72–77, 103 Native American studies, 5, 6 Noble, Frances Khirallah, 60, 64–68, 72, 73, 74 Patterson, James, 107 Post-Apollo Press, 13 postmodernism, 44 Rihani, Ameen, 97 Sabra and Shatila massacre, 23 Said, Edward, 14, 29 Salih, Tayeb, 114 Serageldin, Samia, 113, 120–23, 134 Shakir, Evelyn, 60, 68–72, 73, 74 Simpson, Mona, 107 Sparks, Muriel, 46 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 99 Steele, Danielle, 107 Valentino, Rudolph, 75 Ward, Patricia Sarrafian, 12, 27–31 Weaver, Jace, 138 World War II, 66 ...