Berikut ini adalah puisi dari Naomi Shihab Nye yang disertakan dalam proyek Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools. Sekadar info, Poetry 180 adalah proyek yang digagas penyair Billy Collins saat dia menjadi Poet Laureate Amerika Serikat pada tahun 2002 silam. Tentang penyairnya sendiri, Naomi Shihab Nye, beliau adalah seorang penyair Arab-Amerika yang lahir dan besar […]
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Sitt Marie-Rose by Etel Adnan is an in-depth, if brief, look into the first year of the Lebanese Civil War. While the novel’s conflict centers on the plight of a Lebanese Christian woman whose revolutionary vision brings her to serve the Palestinian refugees in Beirut, its exploration through many characters from both sides of the conflict makes […]
Koolaids: The Art of War (1999) by Rabih Alameddine is not an easy read, to say the least. Unlike most prose works that give their readers narratives designed to enable the readers jump conveniently into the world of their characters, Koolaids presents its readers with vignettes that are not immediately correlated. In the first pages, […]
Puisi ini saya temukan dari buku antologi para penulis Arab-Amerika berjudul A Different Path: an Anthology of the Radius of Arab American Writers. Buku ini berisi puisi, prosa pendek, maupun esai singkat dari penulis-penulis Arab Amerika, baik itu yang lahir di Amerika maupun yang bermigrasi ke Amerika Serikat waktu masih kecil atau remaja. Inilah puisi “Half-and-half” […]
Disclaimer: Sebenarnya tulisan singkat ini adalah salah satu tugas bikin lema ensiklopedia tentang penulis perempuan Arab. Tapi, mengingat ketenaran Khalil Gibran (atau Kahlil Gibran) di Indonesia, dan pernah diterjemahkannya buku surat cinta Gibran kepada Mai Ziadeh, maka saya pikir perlu juga dishare di sini, meskipun belum sempat saya terjemahkan. Semoga yang saya pelajari juga bisa […]
Reel Bad Arabs – Jack Shaheen Interview at KUAF 91.3 FM I was swerving into the parking lot when I heard the radio broadcaster talk about the image of Arabs in the American cinema. I kept listening until it confirmed my suspicion–that it would eventually lead to Jack Shaheen, the scholar of media studies who […]
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Diana Abu-Jaber
Short bio of Diana Abu-Jaber. Here is the information about the author, a piece of information that is far from being comprehensive. The page doesn’t include information about Ms. Abu-Jaber’s second, third and fourth novels. It gives an inaccurate account of the novelist’s second and third novels. According to this piece, Ms. Abu-Jaber plans to […]