Relocating a Torn Identity and Asserting the Right of the Oppressed to be Heard and Liberated in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Recently, there has been a rapid increase in the production of literary works written English by female Arab writers who have brought more appreciation for women are often perceived Western reader as exotic, eccentric and complex. The article deals with 2006 novel Girl Tangerine Scarf Mohja Kahf, Syrian-American poet novelist, which presents new borderland area occupied young Arab-American Muslim women. condemns distorted images Muslims America local media US foreign policy. aims to show way protagonist Khadra attempts relocate an identity lost between home abroad radical Islam discerning secularism. Kahf offers unique portrayal women, having developed subjectivity their own. also that disclosing journey—searching identity—of Khadra, enables her come terms both American identities where she creates herself order be accepted established America. attitude Muslim-American resonates author’s assertion right oppressed heard liberated.