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1 Exploring Thirdspace in Nada Awar Jarrar's Unsafe Haven Luma Balaa , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 32 no. 1/2 2018; (p. 30-47) 'Nada Awar Jarrar is a Lebanese Australian author. She writes in English, and her work belongs to the Anglo•Lebanese exile literature. When she was a child, she had to leave Lebanon because of the civil war (1975-90). She lived in Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States before settling in Lebanon in 1995. In 2006, the thirty-three-day war with Israel broke out, and she fled to the mountains of Lebanon. She wrote Unsafe Haven in 2016 while residing in Beirut at the time of the Syrian war. Nearly all the novel's characters are displaced by wars in their homelands, and through their stories, Jarrar explores the different effects of displacement. Her protagonist describes how the whole Middle East region has been in turmoil, and people "find themselves disconnected and dependent on whatever and whomever provides reprieve from this state of drifting" (80). Displaced during the civil war, she flees to Cyprus for part of her life.' (Introduction(
 
1 Exile, Return, and Nationalism in A Goodland Luma Balaa , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 91-104)

'Nada Awaar Jarrar grew up in Lebanon but left during the civil war of 1975-1990, living in exile in Australia, England, US, and France. Her most recent novel, A Goodland, is about Lebanese woman who was forced to leave Lebanon because of the war when she was an adolescent, but because she suffers from restorative nostalgia, she returns to Lebanon. Here, Balaa examines the notions of exile, nostalgia, return, and nationalism in Jarrar's novel, wherein the protagonist undergoes a quest for both her personal and national identity.' (Publication abstract)
1 Men's Contradictory Experiences of Power in Nada Awar Jarrar's Dreams of Water Luma Balaa , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 27 no. 2 2013; (p. 205-211) 'Nada Awar Jarrar was born in Beirut in 1958, and left Lebanon to go and live in Australia when the war broke out in Lebanon. She writes in English and belongs to both the Lebanese women's writing tradition on the subject of war and to the literary corpus of Anglo-Lebanese women's literature in exile. Here, Balaa analyses Jarrar's novel Dreams of Water, which is set during the civil war in Lebanon, and attempts to look at this text from another perspective. ' (Publication abstract)
1 The Comic Disruption of Stereotypes in Loubna Haikal's Seducing Mr. Maclean Luma Balaa , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 26 no. 2 2012; (p. 173-180)
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