Jumana Bayeh

Jumana Bayeh is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, and the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (2015). Her current projects include an examination of the nation-state in Arab diaspora writing over the last century, and a collaborative project that investigates riots and literature.

All essays by Jumana Bayeh

Review: Jumana Bayehon finding Australia’s Lost Arabs
  • Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sara Saleh (eds.) Pan Macmillan
    272pp
    Published July, 2019
    ISBN 9781760785017
  • The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr UQP
    112pp
    Published April, 2019
    ISBN 978070226036

Finding Australia’s Lost Arabs

At times, as Arabs, lost in the world of displacement, marginalised by our dispersal, and racialised as inferior to our Western counterparts, we can become weary of our lived experiences as diasporic subjects. But with writing as empowering, affecting and beautiful as Sakr’s poetry, or testimonials as stimulating as those assembled by Abdel-Fattah and Saleh, can we dare become ‘tired’ of diaspora writing in any of its modes?
Oct. 2019 • • •