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To tell a tale that´s left To those forbidden passage home It´s in the telling Not the tale That the untold pieces get re-sewn To pick them up One By One And then throw them in the air Is this storyteller´s mad hope That one piece will make it there. (Aphrodite Navab) Torn between two totally different cultures, Iranian-American women strive to search for their sense of equilibrium within the third space between these two cultures- a space found in the process of writing their memoirs.

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Amel El-Rayis grew up in Alexandria, Egypt and received her MA degree in 2014 from the faculty of Arts, English department (literature), Alexandria University.She has taught English language and literature at schools for fourteen years. She is currently writing her dissertation on the fiction of the American author, Philip Roth.

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