arab american women

What happens when a shy, awkward Arab girl with a weird name and an unfortunate propensity toward facial hair is uprooted from her comfortable homeland of Iraq and thrust into the cold, alien town of Columbus, Ohio, with its Egg McMuffins, Barbie dolls, and kids playing doctor everywhere? This is Ayser Salman's story.

Falling in love conjures up old memories and reflections on ethnic identity for a thirty-nine-year-old Arab-American woman in Los Angeles whose only passion heretofore has been the culinary arts.

Khadra Shamy, a Syrian immigrant raised in Indiana to be observant of Islamic customs, becomes confused about what it means to be Muslim and American, and after the rape and murder of a friend, a disastrous marriage, and a brief return to Syria, she comes back to the U.S. in the late 1980s to find answers to her questions and direction for her life.

The true story of an Arab American CIA agent falsely accused of conspiring with terrorists in the wake of 9/11 and her fight to win back her reputation and American citizenship.