Visit Samia Serageldin’s website: https://www.samiaserageldin.com

Read Samia’s blog: http://samiaserageldin.blogspot.com

Listen to Samia Serageldin read her entire story, “Muslims in the Cul-de-Sac,” from 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern College Town in Prose & Poetry

Purchase 27 Views of Chapel Hill (Eno Publishers): http://www.enopublishers.org/books/27-views-of-chapel-hill

Podcast music for “Post-9/11 in the Cul-de-Sac With Samia Serageldin”: “Fjell,” by Gra Hovedei. Available on blue dot sessions. https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/4bae3e5e-41b2-4e53-a62a-e228c74aceaa

Episode 3 Show Notes:

Post-9/11 in the Cul-de-sac With Samia Serageldin

An Arab-American author on small-town life before & after that fateful day

Writer Samia Serageldin talks about growing up in the tumultuous Middle East and immigrating to the U.S. Here she realizes the American dream, until one September morning in 2001. Samia discusses navigating her way in a post-9/11 world. She reads excerpts from her story “Muslims in the Cul-de-Sac” (featured in Eno Publishers’s 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern University Town in Prose and Poetry).

Bio note—

Writer Samia Serageldin is a founder and editor of the online magazine, South Writ Large: Stories, Arts and Ideas from the Global South. Her novels are The Cairo House and The Naqib’s Daughter. She is co-editor of and contributor to the anthology Mothers & Strangers: Global Essays on Motherhood from the American South. Samia’s story, “Muslims in the Cul-de-Sac” was originally published in her short story collection, Love Is Like Water. It also is featured in 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern College Town in Prose & Poetry, published by Eno Publishers. In 2016 Samia was named one of “10 Remarkable Women in Arab American Prose” by Arab America. She is currently working on a novel based on her experiences of living through the 2011 Revolution in Egypt.