Diana Abu-Jaber

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Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of the novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent . Crescent was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor. Arabian Jazz won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. bookbrowse
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  • Wikipedia

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  • NITLE Arab World Project

    "My Elizabeth" Diana Abu-Jaber The short story "My Elizabeth" was written by Diana Abu-Jaber, writer-in-residence at Portland State University and the American-born daughter of Jordanian and Irish-American parents.
    arabworld.nitle.org/texts.php?module_id=7

  • Interview with Saucy Magazine

    saucymag.com/archives/2005/05/an_interview_wi.php

  • Diana Abu-Jaber | Official...

    This is the official Web site of author Diana Abu-Jaber, author of CRESCENT, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003
    www.dianaabujaber.com

  • Willamette Week | "Diana...

    Diana Abu-Jaber can't stay in one spot-in a geographic or literary sense. Currently, the fortysomething Portland State University English professor spends each fall in the Rose City, winters 3,000 miles away in Miami and devotes other months to signing b
    wweek.com/editorial/3335/9237/

  • 2GQ ~ 2 Gyrlz Quarterly ~...

    Abu-Jaber broke out in 1994 with Arabian Jazz , a tale of motherless Arab-Irish sisters marking time with their Jordanian father in white-trash upstate New York. Born in upstate New York and raised there and in Jordan, Abu-Jaber migrated to Oregon in the
    www.2gq.org/2006/01/post_1.html

  • Get Lit! Authors

    Diana Abu-Jaber moved to Jordan for two years with her American mother and Jordanian father when she was seven. She has lived between the U.S. and Jordan since, acting Arab at home but American elsewhere in the U.S. The struggle to make sense of this sor
    www.ewu.edu/getlit/authors.htm

  • Diana Abu-Jaber : Origin :...

    Abu-Jaber sets her novel in economically depressed Syracuse, New York, during a bitterly cold winter. The inhabitants must endure stinging winds and blinding snow that continues for days without any signs of abating. This forbidding climate exacerbates
    www.mostlyfiction.com/mystery/abu-jaber.htm

  • Novelist Diana Abu-Jaber : NPR

    Fresh Air from WHYY , April 16, 2003 · She is the author of Crescent , a new book about a single Arab-American woman chef in Los Angeles. Her previous novel Arabian Jazz won the Oregon Book Award. Abu-Jaber grew up in America in a traditional Jordanian
    www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1234492

  • Diana Abu-Jaber - Authors -...

    Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent , which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor,
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