CONTENTS
Voices from the Threshold: A Few Thoughts on Middle Eastern American Writing
Mothers and Daughters (nonfiction)
Preparing for Occupation (poetry)
Marvari—The Pearl Tree (poetry)
from “A Novena for My Mother” (poetry)
Memories of Tiger Rag (poetry)
For My Irish Grandfather (poetry)
For My Lebanese Grandfather (poetry)
Christmas at Sithee’s (poetry)
Why We Are in the DAR (fiction)
Turning Lebanese: A Family Story (nonfiction)
Where I’m From—Originally (nonfiction)
The First Sam Hazo at the Last (poetry)
Writing as Resistance, Writing as Love (nonfiction)
Moving from Cultural Appropriation Toward Ethical Cultural Connections (nonfiction)
Shifting Spaces: 1990–1993 (nonfiction)
Selections from the Ibn Hazm Epistolary
Preface for Walt Whitman (poetry)
28. [bright world in morning light . . .] (poetry)
[Bookladen on Friday . . .] (poetry)
[Charon drives his ambulance . . .] (poetry)
Summer 1958 (nonfiction prose poetry)
Summer 1964 (nonfiction prose poetry)
The Only Word a Tree Knows (poetry)
Your Weight, at Birth (poetry)
The Only Democracy in the Middle East (poetry)