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Article: Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa, eds.: Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction.(Book review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa, eds. Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $24.95
In 1990, in her introduction to Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists (1994), Joanna Kadi aptly called Arab-Americans "the most Invisible of the Invisibles," thus relegating them to the lowest rung on the minority totem pole. The events of September 11, however, altered that status overnight, hyper-exposing Arab-American invisibility. Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction is the first compilation of creative work ...