Looking Both Ways (Cune Press, 2017)
Looking Both Ways is a collection of interlinked essays that explores family, language, politics, identity, and culture. These essays move across time and space, beginning in Egypt and crossing the ocean to follow the author s travels and the challenges of adapting to American culture and creating a family in her new world. From recounting her attempt to retrieve a stolen nativity camel to relaying her sense of cultural indignation when her husband tells her to follow a recipe, these essays use humor to dive deeper into the experience of what it means to live as an Egyptian in the United States. This book explores culture, identity, and displacement, offering a unique vision into the Arab American immigrant experience.
Looking Both Ways is a collection of interlinked essays that explores family, language, politics, identity, and culture. These essays move across time and space, beginning in Egypt and crossing the ocean to follow the author s travels and the challenges of adapting to American culture and creating a family in her new world. From recounting her attempt to retrieve a stolen nativity camel to relaying her sense of cultural indignation when her husband tells her to follow a recipe, these essays use humor to dive deeper into the experience of what it means to live as an Egyptian in the United States. This book explores culture, identity, and displacement, offering a unique vision into the Arab American immigrant experience.