Depictions Of Arab World In The Arab-American Poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s Select Poetry

Kumar, Tribhuwan
Alharahsheh, Abdelrauof

Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning
Vol 9, No 1 (2026): Ijaz Arabi: Journal Of Arabic Learning

This study aims to examine how Arab-American authors Naomi Shihab Nye and Diana Abu-Jaber portray Arabs in their selected poems. Naomi Shihab Nye is an Arab-American poet residing in Texas, where she interacts with many diasporas. She has sustained a friendship with Palestine for fourteen years. Her empathy for her father, Aziz, acts as the impetus for her writing. Moreover, her mother, a displaced German, profoundly impacts the visionary dimension of her exile. The study finishes with a compilation of topics that have affected Arab-Americans and shaped their cultural beliefs, including hybridity, multiculturalism, and identity deficiency.