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The experience of exile is the most prevalent phenomena in the modern world. It includes voluntary and involuntary displacement. The importance of exile had increased on unprecedented scale and created many diasporic communities. The Arab community is one of them. This paper focuses on the case of Arab Americans in America because they are considered to be the most hated group in the US. This paper focuses complexities of exile, nostalgia, identity crisis, and cultural and psychological distress experienced by Arab Americans in selected works of the Jordanian American writers Abu Jaber's Crescent and Laila Halaby's once in a promised Land.
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