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    In Amreeka Zoned Out
    In Amreeka Zoned Out
    In Amreeka Zoned Out
    Ebook104 pages39 minutes

    In Amreeka Zoned Out

    By Bara Elhag and Danna Rababah

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    This book is catharsis for me, and therapy for you. Sometimes this book hurt me to write, sometimes it may hurt to read. It is about broken souls, empty rooms, and the property of turning your miserable cracks into colorful mosaics. This book as about being foreign, both away and at home, about being Arab and Muslim. It is about faith and how sometimes you need to lose it to find it again. Channel all your old sads and hopefully we together can make new happies out of them, an alchemy of emotion. This book, above all, is about humility. Poetry is about realizing you are vulnerable, man or woman, rich or poor. Learn to embrace and love that. That is what living this book and writing it taught me. That the I should always be lowercase.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 11, 2019
    ISBN9781796050417
    In Amreeka Zoned Out
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    Bara Elhag

    I was born in Alexandria, Egypt in January 1996. I was born into Hosni Mubarak’s regime as president, and only knew him as president until 2011. I spent most of 9 years living half in Minnesota and half in Egypt, but due to academic advantages, I received a high school diploma from America and stayed in New Jersey for college at Rutgers University. I graduated in 2018, and I am currently pursuing a M.S. in biomedical sciences. I have a good family and a few wonderful friends. I love soccer, hummus, and jalapenos. I treasure traveling and love spontaneous journeys to NYC, provided my bank account allows for it. I am now a first-time poet-author.

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