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Against the Loveless World Book Review: A Story of Exile Beyond Numbers and Statistics “Against the Loveless World” tells a story of exile through the eyes of Nahr, a Palestinian refugee. Susan Abulhawa’s novel transports the reader across country borders and through political turmoil, depicting landmark events through a lens beyond conventional statistics. Abulhawa breathes […]

My Shadow is my Skin Book Review: The Hyphenated Identity of Iranian Diaspora “I have taken my shadow—my Iranian heritage—and inverted it. My shadow is my skin. I advertise it” (p. 25).  In three declarative sentences, Iranian-American author Cyrus Copeland 1 pledges his embrace to the one constant antagonist in his innate battle. He integrates […]