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Since 9/11, 2001 Arab-American Muslims have never ceased to be under US national security focus and mainstream Americans bigotry. Such anti-Muslim backlash has been marked by higher degrees of surveillance, violence, detentions, hate crimes, discrimination and a number of murders. This surge in atrocities committed against Muslims is fueled by politics, media, and literary Islamophobic rhetoric. The aim of this paper is to analyze Laila Halaby’s novel Once in a Promised Land (2007) and also examine how the protagonists, Jassim and Salwa, became direct victims and visible targets of suspicion, distrust, and downright racism due to the post-9/11 backlash. The novel highlights the tragic outcome of 9/11 attacks for the Arab Muslim community because of the increased patriotism and prejudice in the American society. The paper argues that, in the aftermath of 9/11 events, Arab American Muslims have been falsely associated with terrorism and unjustly equated with the perpetrators of the attacks in the eyes of the mainstream Americans.
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