![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She presented her story as a case study of the problems facing Arab-American writers and said the climate was simply not conducive to publishing a book about the expulsion of the Palestinians after the creation of the state of Israel. Asked to rewrite her characters again and again, remove references to Israel, and provide historical evidence of the war crimes committed against Palestinians in 1948, Abu-Jaber said she finally reached a point – five years after beginning the book – when she had to put it aside. Her short story about Afghan women is due to appear in Good Housekeeping magazine in September.Ību-Jaber discussed her second novel’s odyssey and the difficulty of telling Arab stories in America at a conference in Washington in April, hosted by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. An immensely relieved Abu-Jaber has just signed a contract with Norton, which is slated to publish “Crescent” in the spring of 2003 – 10 years after her first novel, “Arabian Jazz,” was published to wide critical acclaim. After years of trying to shepherd her second novel, “Memories of Birth,” through an arduous publishing process, Diana Abu-Jaber finally put the project aside and turned her attention to a third novel, “Crescent,” which explores themes of exile and the quest for identity as it weaves the story of an Iraqi-American chef in Los Angeles and her romance with an Iraqi immigrant. ![]()
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