Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Syracuse University Press, 2000)
“This compelling, polyphonic novel gives voice to the experiences of three generations of Palestinian women whose lives are torn apart by war, rape, dispossession, and poverty.” Booklist: “A professor of Arabic literature has written a vivid and fiercely tender story of three generations of Palestinian women whose voices tell of loss and sorrow. In 1948, […]
Feminist Transgressions in the Postcolonial Arab World (1999)
In the past twenty-five years Arab women have taken great strides through the freedoms that postcoloniality have brought to them. Unfortunately, it was wars and struggles that allowed and encouraged women to begin their “transgressions” into the man’s world; watching Algerian women be marginalized as a result of their silence during their civil war, other […]
Mapping Peace (1999)
If we care about not remaining intellectuals without history, we must write the unspeakable.” These words were written by a Lebanese novelist and journalist in the midst of civil war, in an effort to encourage Lebanese artists to speak up about their experiences so the whole world could know the horrors of the war. Thirteen […]