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Elmaz Abinader

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An Arab-American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Vona/Voices. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams.

Born in a small coal mining community in southwest Pennsylvania, she lived with her parents and her five siblings in a household strongly rooted in Lebanese tradition. Her childhood was spent helping out in her family store, attending Catholic church twice a day, and focusing on her schooling. Abinader and her siblings faced challenges due to their ethnicity.

Abinader received her B.A. in Writing and Communication from University of Pittsburgh in 1974. It was during this time that she embrace her heritage and w ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 181 ratings · 33 reviews · 8 distinct works

	لهجه‌ها اهلی نمی‌شوند: تجربه‌ی زندگی میان زبان‌های عربی و انگلیسی by Pauline Kaldas, Batoul Firouzan (Translator), هديل غنيم Hadil Ghoneim (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry by Hayan Charara (Editor), Elmaz Abinader (Contributor), Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Country of My Dreams 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This House My Bones by Elmaz Abinader, Randall Horton (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: a Decade of War 2001-2011 by Sean Labrador y Manzano, Christopher Bernard (Contributor), David Brazil (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pisarze o Ameryce by Various, George Clack (Editor), Mark Jacobs (Author, Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That Glitters: A Sliver of Stone Nonfiction Anthology by M.J. Fievre (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicholas Garnett (Editor), Cory Ginsberg (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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