I recorded this interview at the beginning of Ramadan, and I'm so glad that it will be published at last. I believe that research and publications are important and are worth paying attention to if you are pursuing your higher studies or simply completing your bachelor degree. In this interview we look at the process of publication and how to find that academic space where you can voice your argument and publish.  Dr Deborah M. Mix is Professor of English at Ball State University, where she teaches courses in American literature. She is the author of "A Vocabulary of Thinking": Gertrude S ..read more

In this episode Mona and I cruise over different Arab/ Muslim writing genres. I read a part from "Avenger, Mutant, or Allah: A Short Evolution of the Depiction of Muslims in Marvel Comics" by Nicholaus Pumphrey and then I highlight 4 important muslim characters that are very popular today in comics. Some of the characters I talk about are Soorya Qadir (Dust) , Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan), Kahina Eskandari (Iron Butterfly), and Qahera.   Mona takes us back to the genre of the novel highlighting three critically acclaimed novels by Diana Abu-Jaber which are, Crescent (2003), Arabian Jazz (1993 ..read more

In this episode, Mona and I try to bring together old and new issues about Arabs and Arab Americans. Mona tells us about Mikhail Naimy and reads to us one of his poems that was song by Fayrouz herself. The poem is entitled " Autumn Leaves". I chose to highlight an article entitled "The Arab in American Cinema: From bad to worse, or getting better. It was originally published in 2002. The article highlights the different genres of films in American cinema that Arabs appears in, like The Sheik, Fantasy and Magic, The Mummy, Exotic Settings for European's and Bafoons and Tycoons, and the Arab Isr ..read more

Can't believe that we have started our second season for this wonderful podcast, Writers Back Stage. In this 1st episode of the second season, Mona and I carry to talk about issues related to Arab American literature, like the most important themes, as Mona reminds listeners of Gibran Khalil Gibran, the Godfather of Mahjar and Arab American literature. I turn to an article by Barbra Nimri Azizi on Third World Feminism. Barbara Nimri Aziz is an anthropologist and journalist based in New York most famous for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies.  ..read more

“We  only  saw  it  from  a  distance  [her  Arabic  heritage]”,  Helen  Hatab  Samhan explains. “It was all very foreign to us”. It’s true that Helen’s ex-tended  family  maintained  close  ties  and  that  her  mother  continued  to  cook Syrian food. But that was it (Bint  Arab:  Arab  and  Arab  American  Women  in  the  United  States, by Evelyn Shakir)  In this Episode Mona and I talk about the importance of food in Arab ..read more

In this episode I interview Dr Emily Ruth Rutter. Dr Rutter is an Associate Professor of English at Ball State University. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line (University Press of Mississippi, 2018), The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists (University of Delaware Press, Fall 2021). Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she co-edit ..read more

نستضيف في حلقتنا اليوم الدكتور إبراهيم عزيزي، أستاذ الادب الإنجليزي بجامعة الملك سعود، حاصل علي شهادة الدكتوراة من جامعة انديانا بنسيلفينيا، وله العديد من الاوراق  مثل "هوية السرد في الرواية الأميركية العربية" يناقش الدكتور التحولات التي تخص الهوية العربية الامريكية وتمثيلها في السرد و في الرواية بشكل خاص. نناقش في هذه الحلقة بعض الأسئلة المهمة التي تتعلق بموجات الهجرة الي امريكا الشمالية وكيف شكلت هذه الهجرات كتابات الامريكان العرب واضافت الي ادبهم كمجموعة عرقية لا تقل اهمية عن المجموعات العرقية المتواجدة منذ القدم تحت مظلة الادب الأمريكي     ..read more

In our fifth episode, we focus on  Arab American writers and poets and their reactions to traumatic events like 9/11. Hayat Bedaiwi looks at Letter from Naomi Shihab Nye, Arab-American Poet: To Any Would-Be Terrorists, and provides a reading from the letter itself, with a focus on the idea of how Arab American writers had to defend themselves and fight wrong associations that stuck to Arabs and their heritage after the events.   Mona AlBalawi talks about Lisa Suhair Majaj and her poem “Keep your eyes on the colonizer’s maps”—“Guidelines”. Lisa Suhair Majaj is author of Geographi ..read more

In this Episode Hayat Bedaiwi and  Mona AlBalawi  shed like on two contemporary Arab American authors and their woks. In Email's from Scheherazade, Mohja Kahf the poet, novelist and scholar explores the struggle of Muslim women to reclaim their own identity and reverse American myths and stereotypes of the Muslim world, especially Muslim women.  Huda Fahmy, author and comic artist, tells the readers about real life situations in That Can be Arranged, which covers her own experience in getting married. The book also explores the misconceptions about marriage and men in the Muslim ..read more

In this episode, Hayat Bedaiwi interviews Dr Saad Albazei, Professor at King Saud University, who was also a member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. He is the winner of Sultan Qaboos Prize for  Culture and Arts in 2017, and has many published books, like Thaqafat Assahra (Desert Culture), 1991, Dalil Annakid Aladabi (A Guide for the Literary Critic), 2002, Shurufat lialru'yah (Outposts for Vision: on identity, globalization, and cultural interaction), 2004, Almukawin Alyahudi fi Alhadharah Algharbiyyah (the Jewish Component in Western Civilization), 2007. [Reviewed in Fo ..read more