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- Evelyn_Shakir abstract "Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) was a pioneer in the study of Arab American literature, publishing some of the first academic papers to name Arab American literature as a field She published two books: Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (1997) and Remember me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America, a 2007 short story collection that won the Arab American National Book Award. Shakir grew up in West Roxbury, the younger of two children. She graduated in 1956 from Girls’ Latin School in Boston, and received a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, where she studied English. Dr. Shakir received a master’s from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University. Dr. Shakir taught writing for many years at Bentley University in Waltham, where she was a professor emerita, and also taught at other colleges, including Northeastern and Tufts universities. A senior Fulbright scholar, she taught in the Middle East at the University of Bahrain and the University of Damascus.In 1997, Shakir published Bint Arab, for which she interviewed Arab-American women and added to their experiences the histories of her mother and grandmothers. In part, Dr. Shakir used the book to chronicle the gradual shift among children of immigrants, principally from Lebanon and Palestine, as they moved from trying to erase their heritage through assimilation to adding the word Arab when describing themselves as American.Shakir's short story collection Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America is set in various eras, from the 1960s to the present and occasionally hark back even to the turn of the twentieth century. Protagonists range in age from a teenager who resists her father’s understanding of honor, to an elderly woman who returns from the grave for one last try at whipping her family into shape. Most of the stories dramatize personal issues involving negotiation between generations and cultures. But others have a political dimension—one is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war; another is a response to 9/11, narrated by a woman who keeps watch all day on the Arab family next door.".
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- Evelyn_Shakir comment "Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) was a pioneer in the study of Arab American literature, publishing some of the first academic papers to name Arab American literature as a field She published two books: Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (1997) and Remember me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America, a 2007 short story collection that won the Arab American National Book Award. Shakir grew up in West Roxbury, the younger of two children.".
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