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Scope

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Plans

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On July 30, 2016, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art will be hosting an edit-a-thon at Shangri La in Honolulu, Hawaii. The edit-a-thon will primarily focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Arab American poets and poetry.

Example Articles

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Joseph Awad

Ahmed Shawqi

Etel Adnan

Ameen Rihani

Saladin Ahmed

Khalil Gibran

Mohja Kahf

Suheir Hammad

Khaled Mattawa

Susan Abulhawa

Laila Lalami

An Unnecessary Woman

The Moor’s Account

Articles to improve

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D. H. Melhem

Samuel Hazo (improve citations)

Elmaz Abinader (include a picture)

Elia Abu Madi (add bibliography)

Ibtisam Barakat

Lisa Suhair Majaj

Jack Marshall

Mikha’il Na’ima

Gregory Orfalea (add citations from multiple sources)

Diana Abu-Jaber (improve citations)

Rabih Alameddine

Lara Hamza

Heba Amin

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Susan Muaddi Darraj (introduce links to this page from other articles)

Mahmoud Saeed

Evelyn Shakir (add citations)

Joseph Geha (check formatting of citations)

Arab-American Writers

Arab American Book Award

Palestinian literature

Articles to start

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Sharif Elmusa

Sam Hamod

Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis

Hala Alyan

Farid Matuk


Hedy Habra

Therese Soukar Chehade

Resources

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Onsite

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ʻAkash, Munīr, and Khaled Mattawa, eds. Post-Gibran anthology of new Arab American writing. West Bethesda, Md.: Kitab ; Syracuse, NY: Distributed by Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Charara, Hayan, ed. Inclined to speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

Handal, Nathalie. The poetry of Arab women: a contemporary anthology. New York: Interlink Books, 2001.

Hornung, Alfred, and Martina Kohl, eds. Arab American literature and culture. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, [2012] ©2012.

Kadi, Joanna, ed. Food for our grandmothers: writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists. Boston, MA: South End Press, c1994.

Orfalea, Gregory, and Sharif Elmusa, eds. Grape leaves: a century of Arab-American poetry. New York: Interlink Books, 2000.

Shihab Nye, Naomi, ed. The flag of childhood: poems from the Middle East. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, ©1998.

Online

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Fadda-Conrey, Carol. Contemporary Arab-American literature: transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging. New York; London: New York University Press, [2014]. (full text available through Voyager)

Kaldas, Pauline, and Khaled Mattawa, eds. Dinarzad's children: an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. (full text available through Voyager)

Salaita, Steven. Modern Arab American fiction: a reader's guide. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011. (full text available through Voyager)

Salaita, Steven. Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ©2007. (full text available through Voyager)

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. (available through JSTOR)

Arab Studies Quarterly. (available through JSTOR)

College Literature. (available through JSTOR)

MELUS: Journal of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. (available through JSTOR. See especially 31 no. 4)

World Literature Today. (available through JSTOR)

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Participants

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  1. TParis
  2. Poetryedit
  3. AwakesUndo
    1. Susan Muaddi Darraj in progress
  4. ninefiftythreeam
    1. Minza to be created
    2. RAWI to be created
  5. TurquoiseTide
    1. Ismail Khalidi
    2. Heba Amin
    3. Shebana Coelho to be created
    4. Suhair Hammad
    5. Shadab Zeest Hashmi
    6. Jennifer Zeynab Maccani
  6. Km31284
    1. Therese Soukar Chehade page created
    2. Hedy Habra page created
  7. Brightness1_HalcyonDays1
    1. Etel Adnan adding images
  8. Volcanoclub
    1. Elia Abu Madi in progress
  9. Fchaifa7
    1. Palestinian literature in progress
    2. Ibtisam Azem to be created
  10. Carpstop
    1. Lisa Suhair Majaj in progress
  11. Yes&Tend
    1. Farid Matuk Norma
    2. Gregory Orfalea
  12. ChineseElvis
    1. Ibtisam Barakat in progress
    2. D. H. Melhem in progress
  13. NutshellLeague
    1. Joseph Geha in progress