Familiar Strangers: Stories from America & The Middle East

An Egyptian engineer who loves technology and holds a coveted position in Silicon Valley faces a moral choice when his infant daughter is diagnosed with a serious birth defect at Stanford Hospital.

A University of Michigan grad student has a secret sideline of belly dancing in a Middle Eastern night club in Detroit when her professor suddenly shows up with his Arabic-speaking fiancee. An Armenian academic who has chosen to study Turkic cultures grapples with her relationship with her mother...