Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib

Abstract

The Arab American literary critic Steven Salaita states that Arab American literature, particularly the novel, is witnessing a remarkable upsurge and “is undergoing something of a qualitative and quantitative maturation” (2). Arab American literature gained prominence post-9/11, in a period when the Arab American community was being put under a critical lens (Fadda-Conrey 2014). According to Lisa Suhair Majaj,