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Women in Cultural Insularity and Anxious Spaces in the Arab and Arab American Contexts in Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan

By: Ishak Berrebbah  
Open Access
|Oct 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.58 | Journal eISSN: 2184-6006
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 3, 2021
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Accepted on: Sep 27, 2021
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Published on: Oct 26, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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