This paper addresses the issue of assimilation and identity as seen through some work that is written by Arab American women
writers. The paper provides a brief history of Arab American immigration to USA. It primarily, examines three Arab American
writers and highlights their impact on the American culture. The paper explores the three writers’ impact on the literature on
showing assimilation and identity conflict as Arab women born, raised or lived in America. This paper explores some of their
work to examine how they tackle the issue of race, identity, and ethnicity in their work. The three Arab American writers this
paper studies are Diana Abu Jaber, Leila Ahmad, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Finally, this paper argues whether Arab American
women writers manage to achieve the assimilation and whether they utilize the issue of their identity in what they have written
as fictional and nonfictional work.
Arab American Women Writers Defending Their Identities