`` Amreeka `` : A Drama Centered On The Hardships Of A Palestinian Christian Immigrant

Warren St. John’s ‘Outcasts United” is a story consisting of the difficult yet moving journey of Luma Mufleh. Luma was born in Amman, Jordan, and was full of brightness and potential. However, the environment of Amman was poor and didn’t provide enough education to create a successful future. Because her wealthy father, Hassan, had very high hopes of his daughter, him and his wife Sawsan decided to send her to the United Sates for college. After experiencing the amazing opportunities and freedom offered in the U.S, Luma decided to stay there, even if that meant being permanently cut off from her loving Jordanian family and the wealth that came along with them.

The story is told from the point of view of Latifa, a girl oppressed by the Taliban. When the Taliban storm her home city of Kabul in Afghanistan, Latifa and her family (particularly her female relatives and family) become

Young and not yet attentive to the Americanized way of hate, Jeanne Wakatsuki, youngest daughter of Ko, did not revolt or resist the discrimination her family faced at Manzanar. Forced to live in confining and unsuitable shacks, four persons to a room, the family structure disintegrated while family members grew farther and farther apart. In these camps, privacy did not exist, solitude a scarce thing. These people were thrown into unlivable sheds in the middle of a desert. They were treated as an inferior class, one subordinate to white Americans.

A Refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Ha’s a 10 year old girl from saigon who is a refugee, she had to flee her home in saigon, before she fled her her she was a very stubborn and sassy. The title of the book is Inside out and back again by Thanhha Lai.

It is difficult for Fatima to comprehend the American way of living especially from a woman’s perspective. She sincerely believes that her way is better. For an Arabic woman, particularly in the rural Iraq in 1950’s, marriage is the only goal and

I am from a country with beautiful landscapes that has turned into a warzone country.

Amreeka is a film written by Cherien Dabis who is a Palestinian-American director. She explains the suffering of immigrants through the misfortunes that they are forced to confront. She focuses on the Palestinian citizens’ journey by viewing the harsh times and the joyful moments they faced. Moreover, she begins by explaining how the Palestinians suffer in their own home from the occupation and from different other things like the dikes that are newly built. Furthermore, showing how the Palestinian immigrants, Muna the mother and Fady her son, suffer in foreign countries in various ways such as, facing excessive racism because of their religion; as being an Arab is always

Amreeka, filmed in 2009 and directed by Cherien Dabis, is the story of a Palestinian single mother and her teenage son’s immigration to America. Muna (Nisreen Faour) and her son Fadi (Melkar Muellan) migrate to America from their home in Palestine, a territory in Israel, to stay with family. In America, they face the struggles of cultural barriers and the stereotypes associated with Middle Eastern heritage especially in the times after 9/11, an alleged terrorist attack on U.S. soil blamed on Muslim extremists from the Middle East. In Palestine, they are ID’d and subjected to discrimination every time they want to cross over to a neighboring town. Palestinians are not given many freedoms in their country of Israel because the government and government authorities go to

Comparatively Lina's life in America was a big concern for her family because she was a young girl who struggled to acquire personal independence from her traditional Arab parents. Thus she became a typical American teenager, like many high school kids, she wanted to find her identity so she dressed and dated like them and her mom got furious about it. Lina was sent to Iraq to embrace the culture and her roots as an Arab women. Especially seeing how Iraq has no rights and values like America has all because of Saddam Hussein. Being young and Arab in America is not always about discrimination or being the target of a crime they did not commit, being a young Arab can also mean being a part of the teenage culture and its consequences. In Lina's

The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 was a tragic event for all Americans, including Arab Americans. Due to the fact that the nineteen terrorist who hijacked the four planes were Middle Eastern Muslims, Arab Muslim Americans were suddenly viewed with suspicion and became the victims of discrimination and hate crimes. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were a dual tragedy for Muslim Arab Americans. Arab Americans died in the attack, were part of rescue efforts, and worked bravely at Ground Zero among other Americans. Sadly, they got very little recognition, very little time to mourn because they quickly became the target of hate crimes and discrimination. Despite, being part of the American culture for generations, after the 9/11 attack Muslims

After the US invasion following 9/11, Afghanistan stabilizes somewhat, and Laila and her family are able to return. Laila visits Mariam’s home, and finds a box of personal items left by Jalil to Mariam after his death. Among other items, Laila finds money intended for Mariam, and she and her family settle down in their hometown.

From 1991 over one-sixth of Bhutan’s people flee their country and take a shelter in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. The large populations of Bhutanese refugee are called lhotshamps, an ethnic group, who were forced to leave their country in the early 1990s. Among 105,000 Bhutanese I’m one of them. I was born in a hut made of bamboo, food rations, and dirt roads. We are hostile, unsettled, unsure of who we are and what future held for us. I often think can we ever able to get rid out of the tag called “refugee” would my life ever changed, while ongoing tussled between mind and outside world finally in 2008 United States open a door for us to settled in the United States a “promised land” with full of struggle in 2009 we came here at Grand Forks. As I was growing up in the refugee camp I have seen a countless number of violence, crimes, injuries, and rebuff that words can’t be described. Most importantly death of people from a disease that can be a cure if, we have enough facilities such as, advanced medical training and hospitals. Although during my early childhood I have seen so much of maltreatment and practices, I always thought of having a career in health-related profession because I wanted to invest and improve the lives of individuals so that their children don't have to orphans, forced to work when their parent died, nor they have to beg for food. When I was 10 years old, my friend and I were trying to climb up the mango tree and I step in

Society has placed this norm on women insisting that the only way to bring honor to the family is to marry off and live a life in the constant shadows of their prearranged husband. As Mulan fails this test of bridal readiness, she realizes that she does not fit the typical gender role that society has placed upon her. Her life was predestined to be simple just as Lieberman states, “the beautiful girl does not have to do anything to merit being chosen; she does not have to show pluck, resourcefulness, or wit; she is chosen because she is beautiful,” but this lifestyle does not fit with who Mulan is as a person.

Joe Sacco’s graphic novel, Palestine, deals with the repercussions of the first intifada in Israel/Palestine/the Holy Land. The story follows the author through the many refugee camps and towns around Palestine as he tries to gather information, stories, and pictures to construct his graphic novel. While the book is enjoyable at a face level, there are many underlying themes conveyed throughout its illustrated pages and written text.

The next time the protagonist encounters Mangan’s sister, is the first time the two characters have an actual conversation. In the conversation they discuss if there going the Araby and tell