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Mohja Kahf's poems blend the experiences of Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. Within her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, chronicling specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant.

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"Perhaps Kahf's most impressive accomplishment is her ability to bring together beauty and pain in the same breath, to write poems that encompass history and human endurance as well as joy, that testify to the fragility and power of the human heart.... This is Kahf's ultimate message: that religion and ethnicity and color and nationality are as nothing in the face of simple humanity; that spirituality and life are beyond all of these, that no creed or ideology may be taken as justification for harm." - Lisa Suhair Majaj

Emails from Scheherazad

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      Publisher: MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/31/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813026213, 978-0813026213
      ISBN10: 0813026210

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Mohja Kahf's poems blend the experiences of Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. Within her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, chronicling specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant.

      Trade Review
      "Perhaps Kahf's most impressive accomplishment is her ability to bring together beauty and pain in the same breath, to write poems that encompass history and human endurance as well as joy, that testify to the fragility and power of the human heart.... This is Kahf's ultimate message: that religion and ethnicity and color and nationality are as nothing in the face of simple humanity; that spirituality and life are beyond all of these, that no creed or ideology may be taken as justification for harm." - Lisa Suhair Majaj

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