Arab American Heritage-Adults

Updated April 16, 2026
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Fencing with the king : a novel
Abu-Jaber, Diana
Paper Book
The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favorite pastime-fencing-and with his favorite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter, Amani. Amani, a divorced poet, jumps...

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The other Americans
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of...

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Salt houses
Alyan, Hala
Paper Book
 Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award On the eve...

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The Moor's account : a novel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--this "stunning [book] sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didn't make history" (Huffington Post). In these...

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Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice * Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely...

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Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
Adayfi, Mansoor
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD 2022  *  "Amazing book! And will be an eye-opener for many." --Margaret Atwood This "searing" (The New York Times) memoir of an innocent man detained at...

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Love is an ex-country : a memoir
Jarrar, Randa
Paper Book
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review).  ...

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This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman
Omar, Ilhan
Paper Book
Named a Best Political Book of the Year by The Atlantic "This Is What America Looks Like is the origin story of a leader who, finding no set path that would take a person like her to the places she wanted to go, was forced, and free, to chart her own." -The New York Times...

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