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MUSLIM AMERICANS DELIMMA POST 9/11 IN LAILA HALABY’S ONCE IN A PROMISED LAND

Zainab Fadhil, Asst Prof Dr Azhar Noori Fajer

Volume: 9 Issue: 1 2019

Abstract:

September 11th attacks held the biggest tragedy in American history. It was a day of grief, and it proved that America was not immune to attacks and threat. Afterwards life has changed not only for the American Muslims but also American Christians and Jews and to people from other religions. The cruelty of that day has left its shed particularly on the Muslims’ life in America who in reality had nothing to do with the attacks. Arab American Muslim writer Laila Halaby’s novel, Once in a Promised Land, intensely displays the problems that Arab Muslims went through after September 11th attacks. This paper discusses this issue through analysing Halaby’s novel, where she deals with the issues such as discrimination, stereotype, and prejudice. This paper presents the two main characters of the novel Salma and Jassim and the crisis they encountered after the attacks.

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