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On July 30, 2016, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art will be hosting an edit-a-thon at Shangri La in Honolulu, Hawaii. The edit-a-thon will primarily focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Arab American poets and poetry.
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Articles to improve edit
Samuel Hazo (improve citations)
Elmaz Abinader (include a picture)
Elia Abu Madi (add bibliography)
Gregory Orfalea (add citations from multiple sources)
Diana Abu-Jaber (improve citations)
Susan Muaddi Darraj (introduce links to this page from other articles)
Evelyn Shakir (add citations)
Joseph Geha (check formatting of citations)
Articles to start edit
- http://imeu.org/article/sharif-s.-elmusa-poet-and-environmental-scholar
- http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199004/poetry.in.the.blood.htm
- http://www.egyptindependent.com/staff/sharif-s-elmusa
- https://arablit.org/2012/04/16/sharif-elmusa-on-two-medicines-exile-and-poetry/
- http://go.galegroup.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA167894996&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=fulltext&issn=11108673&p=AONE&sw=w&authCount=1&isAnonymousEntry=true
Resources edit
Onsite edit
ʻAkash, Munīr, and Khaled Mattawa, eds. Post-Gibran anthology of new Arab American writing. West Bethesda, Md.: Kitab ; Syracuse, NY: Distributed by Syracuse University Press, 1999.
Charara, Hayan, ed. Inclined to speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
Handal, Nathalie. The poetry of Arab women: a contemporary anthology. New York: Interlink Books, 2001.
Hornung, Alfred, and Martina Kohl, eds. Arab American literature and culture. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, [2012] ©2012.
Kadi, Joanna, ed. Food for our grandmothers: writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists. Boston, MA: South End Press, c1994.
Orfalea, Gregory, and Sharif Elmusa, eds. Grape leaves: a century of Arab-American poetry. New York: Interlink Books, 2000.
Shihab Nye, Naomi, ed. The flag of childhood: poems from the Middle East. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002, ©1998.
Online edit
Fadda-Conrey, Carol. Contemporary Arab-American literature: transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging. New York; London: New York University Press, [2014]. (full text available through Voyager)
Kaldas, Pauline, and Khaled Mattawa, eds. Dinarzad's children: an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. (full text available through Voyager)
Salaita, Steven. Modern Arab American fiction: a reader's guide. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2011. (full text available through Voyager)
Salaita, Steven. Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ©2007. (full text available through Voyager)
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. (available through JSTOR)
Arab Studies Quarterly. (available through JSTOR)
College Literature. (available through JSTOR)
MELUS: Journal of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. (available through JSTOR. See especially 31 no. 4)
World Literature Today. (available through JSTOR)
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Participants edit
- TParis
- Poetryedit
- AwakesUndo
- Susan Muaddi Darraj in progress
- ninefiftythreeam
- TurquoiseTide
- Km31284
- Therese Soukar Chehade page created
- Hedy Habra page created
- Brightness1_HalcyonDays1
- Etel Adnan adding images
- Volcanoclub
- Elia Abu Madi in progress
- Fchaifa7
- Palestinian literature in progress
- Ibtisam Azem to be created
- Carpstop
- Lisa Suhair Majaj in progress
- Yes&Tend
- ChineseElvis
- Ibtisam Barakat in progress
- D. H. Melhem in progress
- NutshellLeague
- Joseph Geha in progress