الفهرس 
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Abstract
This study aims basically to negotiate how Arab-American novelists are navigating dual cultures: one American and one Arab. The Arab-American novelists suffer to build their own selves in an alien society and to cope with the American values and traditions. In an attempt to validate how they are tortured between two contradictory cultures: one of the society in which they live and the other of their homeland, the focus will be in the following novels: Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz, Crescent, Origin and Simpson’s Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, Off Keck Road.
Diana Abu-Jaber and Mona Simpson represent two different trends of Arab American Novelists: the first emphasizing Arabs’ traditions and values as a solution to their suffering while the other sees coping with the American society as the solution. They both try to live in the American society but fail, so they take refuge to their Arabs’ heritage but they fail too. Finally, they come to the conclusion that they have to accept their two parts in order to live freely.