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Cable, Umayyah. "Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause." Meridians 23, no. 2 (2024): 465–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266340.

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Abstract This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab American communities in the 1980s and 1990s. The author argues that this dual outness was utilized as a strategy through which to accomplish three interrelated aims: to build a queer Arab American community, utilize that community as a starting point from which to challenge anti-Arab racism within queer communities, and challenge homophobia in Arab American communities. Based on an oral history interview with Jadallah, in conjunction with analysis of Jadallah’s personal ephemera collection, this article takes a queer archiving methodological approach to consider how outness as strategy may also be utilized with regard to queer Arab American archiving and history.
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Kareem, Al-Jayikh Ali. "Gender and the Dark Side of the Border in Laila Lalami’s Hope and other Dangerous Pursuits." Gender Studies 15, no. 1 (2016): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0015.

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Abstract Starting from Arab-American women’s narratives, this study explores to what extent hegemonic history excludes and silences female Arab bodies and their relation to sexuality. It will also address the issue of present day migration, as reflected by Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami in her novel Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005).
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Alhwayan, Wasil Ali, and Nasaybah W. Awajan. "The Adaptation of the Western Perspective (Don DeLillo) on Terrorism in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 14, no. 1 (2023): 181–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1401.19.

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The study aims to identify how the American author, Don DeLillo presents Arab Muslims in his novel Falling Man, likewise explores how the Jordanian-British, Fadia Faqir, presents Arab Muslims by adopting the Western Perspective of them in her novel Willow Trees Don’t Weep. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used, and specifically the views of Edward Said on Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study concludes by presenting how both authors - Don DeLillo as a Westerner and Fadia Faqir as an Arab - present their Arab Muslim characters as terrorists in their respective works Falling Man and Willow Trees Don’t Weep.
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Curtis IV, Edward, and Lindsey Waldenberg. "Discovering Arab Indianapolis: An Interview with Edward Curtis IV." Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies 12, no. 1 (2025): 144–52. https://doi.org/10.24847/v12i12025.617.

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In Arab Indianapolis: A Hidden History, author and historian Edward E. Curtis IV explores the origins and growth of the Arab American community in Indianapolis, Indiana. The documentary spans 120 years of history and discusses the city’s first Arabic-speaking neighborhood on Willard Street, important community anchors such as St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church of Indianapolis, and stories of trailblazing individuals whose contributions expanded Arab American representation and opportunities in Greater Indianapolis and beyond. The documentary, which premiered in 2022, is part of a larger project that began as a blog in March 2020. Since then, the “Arab Indianapolis” project has launched a book, developed K-12 lesson plans, hosted educator workshops, and, most recently, dedicated the city’s first memorial marker celebrating the city’s Arab American history. To watch Arab Indianapolis: A Hidden History and explore other facets of the project, visit www.arabindianapolis.com.
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Cariello, Marta. "Coming of Age in the Solitude of the Lost Land: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home." HAWWA 12, no. 2-3 (2014): 268–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341266.

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This contribution analyzes Palestinian-American Randa Jarrar’s semi-autobiographical novelA Map of Home(2008). The novel is read through various, overlapping lenses: the use of the semi-autobiographical form and the related challenge, brought about by the woman migrant writer, to the genre itself of autobiography and its relevance to individual and collective identity formation, the deconstruction of fixed, universal subjectivity and the challenge that exile narratives bring to the narration of nations, the specific positionality of the author that brings into play not only Arab and Arab-American identity construction but more specifically the narration of the Palestinian people. Finally, aMap of Homeappears as a site for Jarrar to produce a specific articulation of an Arab, Arab-American and Palestinian self through a female genealogy of agency.
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F. Atari, Omar. "Literacy Practices in Contrast: Adult Arab Literacy vs. Native English Literacy." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 11, no. 1 (2010): 127–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.11.1.10.

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The paper addresses the issue of adult Arab literates' practices and products which exhibit specific communicative strategies and persuasive literacy styles. The author characterizes the adult Arab literates' communicative strategies revealed in the following literacy products: Academic essays, cross-cultural communication studies, genres in contrast, translational versions of Arabic source texts and L2 reading strategies. The author attempts to frame the communicative strategies employed in the above-mentioned literacy products in terms of: orality/literacy traditions and culture. The author shows how adult Arab literates' literacy practices run counter to the targeted Anglo-American literacy practices. The sharp contrast has to be addressed in view of the extensive pressures on adult Arab literates to publish in English, and to communicate in English in different disciplines. The contrast between the strategies of those on the periphery and those of the center-based is the major thrust of the paper. Finally, the author calls for an approximative system of biliteracy..
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Adrianov, Artem K. "Review of: K. Pollack. Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness." Oriental Courier, no. 1-2 (2021): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s268684310015817-6.

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The review analyzes the recent book written by an American military expert and political scientist Kenneth Pollack and entitled Armies of the Sand: Past, Present and Future of the Effectiveness of Arab Armies. The author of the monograph has been studying Arab armies and Middle East conflicts for more than 30 years and had previously published several papers that consider the military organization of different countries in the region. In this book, Pollak seeks to summarize long-standing discussions that consider the reasons for the low military effectiveness of the Arab armies after the Second World War. The author consistently examines four principal arguments that seek to explain the reasons for the failures of the Arab armies on the battlefield (the influence of the Soviet military doctrine, politicization, the level of socio-economic development, culture). For each of the hypotheses, Pollack selects the most representative examples from the history of military operations carried out by the Arab armies after 1945. In doing so the researcher tries to prove or disprove the hypotheses. To better substantiate his conclusions Pollack also examines whether non-Arab armies that presumably faced the same difficulties as the Arab ones also performed poorly on the battlefield. The author concludes that Arab culture has been the most influential factor that prevented Arab armies from winning wars.
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Eltahawy, Nora. "Growing Better, Not Going Faster: World War I, Holy Land Mania, and Transnational Exchange in the Works of Abraham Mitrie Rihbany." MELUS 46, no. 2 (2021): 64–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab022.

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Abstract This article analyzes the three works published by Arab American theologian and author Abraham Mitrie Rihbany during and in the aftermath of World War I: Militant America and Jesus Christ (1917), America Save the Near East (1918), and Wise Men from the East and from the West (1922). The political climate in which Rihbany wrote the works saw the American public grappling with two issues of particular relevance to the steadily growing Arab American community. Where the global front was concerned, debates on the merits of abandoning isolationist policies, which focused near exclusively on the situation in Europe, left Americans oblivious to the ongoing conflict between the Ottoman Empire and its Arab subjects. On the domestic front, rising levels of xenophobia and the lasting legacy of The Naturalization Act divided legal and public opinion on Arabs’ eligibility for citizenship. Situating Rihbany’s attempts to address both of these problems against the backdrop of his upbringing in Greater Syria, this article reveals how Rihbany called on his training in the cosmopolitan era of the Nahda in order to guide the American public toward a more expansive model of transnationalism capable of encompassing both Arabs and Arab Americans in its fold.
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Buzan, Vitalii. "THE JIMMY CARTER ADMINISTRATION’SPOLICY TOWARDS THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1977–1981." American History & Politics: Scientific edition, no. 16 (2023): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2023.16.7.

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The purpose of the article is to consider the U.S. policymaking towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Middle East process and the Palestinian problem under the presidency of Jimmy Carter. The research methodology is based on the principle of historicism and standards of objectivity. The author uses historical-comparative, problem-chronological, historical-genetic, and historical-systemic methods of historical research. The scientific originality. Special attention is paid to the U.S. policymaking towards the Arab-Israeli conflict and the intellectual basis of Carter’s Middle East policy. The author analyses the views of American high-ranking officials, leading experts, and policymakers regarding the concept of Arab-Israeli settlement and Soviet involvement in the Middle East peace process. The author outlines the role of the Soviet factor in American diplomatic calculations and considerations regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. Conclusions. Initially, President Carter’s administration abandoned the concept of a step-by-step approach, partial settlement, and interim agreements. Instead, President Carter was determined to achieve a comprehensive peace settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, revived the idea of cooperation between Superpowers in the Middle East peace process, and agreed to reconvene the Geneva Conference on Middle East peace. The USA and the USSR were co-chairmen of the Geneva conference and issued a joint communiqué on the principles of a Middle East settlement. Among U.S. policymakers were opponents and supporters of Soviet participation in the peace process. Sadat’s peace initiative was a turning point in the U.S. strategy in the Middle East. After that, the USA changed its approach to the Middle East peace settlement, abandoned the idea of reconvening the Geneva Conference, and endorsed separate Egyptian-Israeli negotiations. President Carter’s administration was convinced that a peaceful solution to the Palestinian problem was essential to Middle East settlement. The U.S. officials began to mention the legitimate rights of the Palestinians and their self-determination. American policymakers elaborated an interim solution to the problem of a Palestinian homeland. In particular, they proposed the concept of a transitional arrangement for the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Dubovitskaya, M. A. "Te “Concept – Image − Motive” Triad in Arab-American Fiction Literature." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 3 (2021): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-3-27-53-64.

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Arab-American multicultural, or cross-cultural, literature related to different time periods is closely examined in the article. Tese writings are part of borderline literature due to the fact that the central theme in them is the theme of dual (transitional) identity. Te author provides a defnition of “liminality”, which is necessary when considering the phenomena of bilingualism and biculturalism. Te relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in emigrant literature as a source of meanings scattered in the text, contributing to the understanding of the social and cultural context. Te motive, image and the concept are singled out in the works of Arab-American literature to decode hidden meanings. Te results of the analysis of the main motives, taken in diachrony, are presented, and their similarities and differences are revealed. Te fact that the same motives, for example, the motives of nature and music, are found in completely different works, speaks of their semantic, cultural and literary signifcance. Te novelty of the research is seen in the combination of linguo-literary and linguo-stylistic methods in the analysis of linguistic material, which helps to identify psychological, cultural and social aspects in the Arab-American fction discourse.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Arab-American author"

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Khoury, Nicole Michelle. "Hybrid identity and Arab/American feminism in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2862.

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In her novel Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber attempts to explore the Arab American identity as something new; as an identity that exists related to, but ultimately separate from, the Arab and American identities from which it was originally created. This thesis discusses the emergence of the depiction of the Arab American female identity in the novel, examining how the characters explore issues of race, class, imperialism, and sex within both the Arab and the American cultures as those issues shape female identity. The thesis also presents a rhetorical analysis of the speeches that allow the characters a voice with respect to how identity is shaped and reshaped throughout the novel.
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Books on the topic "Arab-American author"

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Hall, Loretta. Arab American voices. U X L, 2000.

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Muaddi, Darraj Susan, ed. Scheherazade's legacy: Arab and Arab-American women on writing. Praeger, 2004.

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Layton, Rebecca. Arab-American and Muslim writers. Chelsea House, 2010.

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Joanna, Kadi, ed. Food for our grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists. South End Press, 1994.

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Salaita, Steven George. Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Salaita, Steven George. Modern Arab American fiction: A reader's guide. Syracuse University Press, 2011.

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1949-, Orfalea Gregory, and Elmusa Sharif 1947-, eds. Grape leaves: A century of Arab American poetry. University of Utah Press, 1988.

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Abdelrazek, Amal Talaat. Contemporary Arab American women writers: Hyphenated identities and border crossings. Cambria Press, 2007.

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Boof, Kola. Diary of A Lost Girl: Autobiography of Kola Boof. Door of Kush, 2005.

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Sawires-Masseli, Marie-Christin. Arab American novels post-9/11: Classical storytelling motifs against outsidership. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Arab-American author"

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"About the author." In Contemporary Arab-American Literature. New York University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479826926.003.0010.

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"AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY." In Arab-American Faces and Voices. University of Texas Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/709195-023.

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Hamid, Shadi. "Democratic Dilemmas." In The Problem of Democracy. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579466.003.0004.

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Abstract In Chapter 4, the book considers the largely forgotten democratic openings in Egypt, Jordan, and Algeria in the late 1980s and explores why they were closed. This is also where the author lays out the potentially controversial argument that Israel’s role in the region—and the American desire to forge Arab-Israeli peace—undermines prospects for Arab democracy.
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Freed, Joanne Lipson. "Form, Politics, and Syllabus Design." In Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom. University of Illinois Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252046315.003.0003.

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This chapter demonstrates how racial literacy can be fostered through a formalist approach to short stories by Black, Latinx, Native, Arab American, and Asian American writers, which alerts students to the social construction and power dynamics of race takes a formalist approach to the process of syllabus design in the multiethnic literature classroom, arguing that racial literacy is an essential learning objective in multiethnic literature courses. The author considers an aspect of the formal politics of teaching texts that teachers tend to take for granted--the short story form--and asks, What are the consequences of relying heavily on short forms--especially the short story--in teaching about race? The chapter demonstrates both the pitfalls and advantages of using short texts in the multiethnic literature classroom.
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Shaban, Abir El. "Handling Research Challenges." In Research Anthology on Doctoral Student Professional Development. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5602-6.ch011.

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This chapter explores some of the challenging issues that were raised for the author while conducting her first biggest research project as an international doctoral student at one of the United States universities. The main challenge that the author faced was the difficulty of having access to a language center to examine her technology professional development model on language teachers to explore its effectiveness in understanding the teachers' adoption and rejection decision of using education technology and to collect data for her dissertation. After choosing an alternative venue and planning to travel to the United Arab Emirates to conduct the practical part of her research at one of the UAE's universities, an academic networking event changed the course of the latest plans and had a gatekeeper assisting her in experimenting her model and conducting the rest of her study in an American university. The chapter explores some of the challenges and how the author tackled each one of them. The chapter ends with some general recommendations for graduate students and novice researchers.
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Shaban, Abir El. "Handling Research Challenges." In Overcoming Fieldwork Challenges in Social Science and Higher Education Research. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5826-3.ch002.

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This chapter explores some of the challenging issues that were raised for the author while conducting her first biggest research project as an international doctoral student at one of the United States universities. The main challenge that the author faced was the difficulty of having access to a language center to examine her technology professional development model on language teachers to explore its effectiveness in understanding the teachers' adoption and rejection decision of using education technology and to collect data for her dissertation. After choosing an alternative venue and planning to travel to the United Arab Emirates to conduct the practical part of her research at one of the UAE's universities, an academic networking event changed the course of the latest plans and had a gatekeeper assisting her in experimenting her model and conducting the rest of her study in an American university. The chapter explores some of the challenges and how the author tackled each one of them. The chapter ends with some general recommendations for graduate students and novice researchers.
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Braxton, Joanne M. "Symbolic Geography and Psychic Landscapes: A Conversation with Maya Angelou." In Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195116069.003.0001.

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Abstract Maya Angelou, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the author of five autobiographies, of which I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) is the first and best known.1 Even before accepting the lifetime appointment at Wake Forest, Angelou’s teaching and experience spanned not only the United States and Europe but also Africa and the Middle East. A celebrated poet, teacher, and lecturer who has taught at the University of California, the University of Kansas, and the University of Ghana, among other places, Angelou has been honored for her academic and humanistic contributions as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar and a Yale University Fellow. While in Ghana, she worked for the African Review as feature editor. Previously, while residing in Cairo, Egypt, Angelou (who speaks French, Spanish, and Fanti) edited the Arab Observer.
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Pennock, Pamela E. "Traversing Arab and American Spaces." In Rise of the Arab American Left. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630984.003.0007.

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The chapter explores how a transnational Arab American political consciousness played out on the local level in a series of inter-related developments in Dearborn, Michigan, starting with a movement to fight the city’s plans to destroy a working-class, immigrant neighborhood called the Southend, the creation of ACCESS, an Arab American community center, and a movement to protest the United Auto Workers’ investments in Israeli bonds. Tied to these activities was the activism of the Arab Workers Caucus that combined struggles for workplace justice and justice for Palestine.
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Pennock, Pamela E. "Introduction." In Rise of the Arab American Left. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630984.003.0001.

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Carrying signs and banners proclaiming “Jewish People Yes, Zionism No,” in November 1973 hundreds of Arab American autoworkers and their supporters picketed an event in Detroit at which the Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was honoring United Auto Workers’ president Leonard Woodcock. Plans for the protest had been building for several weeks, emanating from demonstrations held in reaction to the war fought between Israel and several Arab nations in October 1973. The October demonstrations that took place in Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States, focused on championing the Arabs’ fight along with protesting American support for Israel. In Dearborn and across the country, Arab American political mobilization on behalf of Palestine had escalated since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel had defeated its Arab opponents and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians....
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Al-Lawatia, Husain, and Thomas Hilton. "Information Systems Ethics in the USA and in the Arab World." In Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology. IGI Global, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-93177-743-8.ch012.

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This chapter explores similarities and differences between two cultures, the USA and the Arab World, in BIS ethics, through a survey of American and Arab students on personal use of organizational computers, use of organizational IS resources for non-organization gain, and monitoring of organizational IS resource use. While interesting statistical differences were found in the average strength of several responses, there was no disagreement as to the ethicality or non-ethicality of any survey item. The authors view this consistency as encouraging evidence of a common foundation for IS-related commerce between the two cultures. The findings of this study can be a basis for future cooperation, as legislators, educators, and employers in the Arab World and the USA develop acceptable BIS practices.
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Conference papers on the topic "Arab-American author"

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Davitadze, Tamila. "Oriental World in a Modern Novel (Based on the Novels by Jean Sasson)." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.3.8954.

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In the cultural sciences, the West and the East are seen as two fundamentally different types of worldview and social order; “They constantly interact, assimilate each other's values, enrich each other“ – says researcher J. Stidman. If earlier it was thought that Eastern and Western cultures did not intersect, as the famous English writer R.S. "The West is the West, the East is the East, and they will never meet," Kipling said. West and East are distinguished by many characteristics, including a view of the world and the definition of a person's place in it. The novel "Princess Diaries" by the American writer Jean Sesson tells the story of these two different worlds, which are works of the epistolary genre characteristic of Western literature. In it, an Arab princess tells the story of the unjust status of Arab women in the form of diaries. One of the main problems of modern life is the so-called gender problem, which was talked about openly in the 70s of the 20th century. An unusually bold woman who can resist an unjust tradition. The own voice of the author is lost in the work, we can assume that it has each narrator, which is one of the distinctive features of postmodern literature. Based on an ideological-artistic analysis of literary Orientalism, the work "Oriental World in a Modern Novel" discusses the interplay of Eastern and Western traditions, the status of women, their role and struggle against injustice, disenfranchisement, the topic of historical East-West culture and the issue of confrontation.
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Dolidze, Nino. "Imposters by al-Hariri and its Translations." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9009.

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In 2020 the Imposters by prominent Arab author al-Hariri (1054-1122) was issued by the NYU press. The masterpiece of Arabic Literature has alrea­dy been translated into several languages, but Michael Cooperson presented absolutely different version. In the paper I try to analyze the attitude of the translators to the origi­nal text in a diachrony. How Maqamat of al-Hariri were perceived in diffe­rent cultures? What was / is the priority while translating them? What has been changed from the Middle Ages to the globalization era? Persian, Hebrew, German and Russian translations of the Maqamat are imitations, while Latin, French and previous English translations basically were paraphrase / metaphrase. As al-Hariri’s language is too complicated, Per­sian and Jewish translators in the 12th –13th centuries tried to prove that their languages were not of less importance than the holy language and the lingua franca of that time. As for European translations, Orientalistic attitude to the Arabic piece of literature meant to use it for the own interests. Imitations of the Maqamat were used for enrichment of receiving cultures, exact trans­lations – to teach Arabic or to make some linguistic researches. All of them were domestications. In post-orientlist times Cooperson first tried to preserve the soul of the origin. In his translation, which is more transculturation, one can see his great respect to the Arabic culture. But for the American translator the most important thing in the Maqamat is the linguistical firework in it. Cooperson doesn’t see original text as a fictional work with its irony and critic of the Arab society. He doesn’t assess it as a “pre-novelistic” literary piece. He doesn’t notice its fictional hero’s inner duality. He translates only the form. As a result, in the newest translation the possibilities of the modern global English are well represented, while important features of the origin are lost. Al-Hariri was not a great poet, nor a great improvisor, but his Maqa­mat, as a celebration of the language and style, became the text, which has been translated to demonstrate the possibilities of different languages. In the post-orientalist epoch, it’s the celebration of contemporary lingua franca.
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