![]() Her parents were killed when she was a child and she was raised by her father's brother, who works as a professor at a local university in Los Angeles. For those readers not familiar with Crescent, the novel focuses on the life of Sirine, a thirty-nine-year-old never-married woman whose mother was American and father Iraqi. engages issues that have become only more vexed since the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Crescent's focus on the position of Arabs and Arab Americans in the U.S. ![]() Although set and written prior to the 2003 U.S. Moreover, according to Amal Abdelrazek, “the construct of Arab relates to the politics of the day” (21).Ģ. ![]() In reality, however, “Arabs” are “those people coming from the countries that speak the Arabic language” (although distinctions exist in the language itself) and “not all Arabs are Muslims and all Muslims are not Arabs.” The Arab world “extends from the Persian Gulf, west across northern Africa” and includes “some but not all of the countries called the Middle East” indeed, “countries like Iran, Israel, and Turkey,” as well as Afghanistan, are not part of the Arab world,” something that most Americans do not know (Abdelrazek 7–8). Abu-Jaber's Crescent uses the term Arab generically, as associated with people of Muslim Middle Eastern descent, as is the tendency in the United States. ![]()
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