By Rand Dalgamouni JORDAN TIMES
AMMAN – The Arab Spring has generated more interest in Arab-American writers and their reflections on the changes taking place in the region, an author said on Tuesday.
“The media in the [United] States has been reaching out to Arab-American writers,” Susan Muaddi Darraj told reporters.
“Whether we like it or not, we are viewed as spokespeople for Arabs in America,” the Arab-American writer said. “My identity as an Arab American is a political identity.”
Muaddi Darraj was in Jordan to launch the Arabic version of her short story collection “The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly”, which was translated through the US embassy’s Arabic Book Programme.
During her visit to the Kingdom, the author also met with Jordanian writers and students at several universities.
At a media roundtable yesterday, she said the aftermath of 9/11 has led to a greater interest in Arab-American writing.
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