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This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Karam published t…

Arab immigrants in Brazil established a thriving Arabic and Portuguese-language literary culture in cities such as São Paulo at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Their writing ponders issues such as identity, cultural heritage and belonging to m…