Author: Dawne Shand

The Storytellers: Arab-American Writers Have Something to Say

The Storytellers: Arab-American Writers Have Something to Say

Randa Jarrar, the president of the Radius of Arab American Writers—whose acronym RAWI, means “storyteller” in Arabic—was a teenager in 1996 when the organization first came into being. Now a published novelist, fiction editor of The Normal School, and professor at Fresno State, Jarrar attended early RAWI conferences and met other Arab-American writers whom she had admired from a distance. She is one of her creative community’s many success stories.