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This study aims at describing the identity crisis of Diaspora people (Arab -American) in
"Laila Halaby's" novel "Once in A promise Land". Halaby tackles the issues of racism,
exclusion, and instability of identity that affect the Arab American community after the terrorist
event of eleventh of September. She sheds light on the experiences of her significant characters
Salwa and Jassim in America, clarifying how this event weakened their social position and
turns their presence in America questionable. "Halaby" describes the bitterness of her
characters who are induced into a dream of belonging to a land that transcends their original
culture and religious values as well as their language. "Halaby" explains the subsistence in
America involvi
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