Posted on 04/18/2018 11:38:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Fresno State English professor who lashed out at the late Barbara Bush, calling the former first lady an "amazing racist," has made a mark as an author writing about her personal life and Arab-American heritage.
Randa Jarrar was born in Chicago in 1978, according to her Wiki page, to an Egyptian-Greek mother and Palestinian father. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, then returned with her family to the U.S. in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War.
According to Fresno State officials, Jarrar has been on leave this semester from the university, where her instruction includes creative writing.
"Many of my undergraduates are brown: Latinos, Asian Americans, Muslim Americans," Jarrar said in a 2014 interview with the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
Her books include "A Map of Home," a collection of stories about lives of Arab women, and "Him, Me, Muhammad Ali," described on her website as "a collection ... featuring journalists and kids and queers and pregnant girls and birds who are arrested for spying." Jarrar won the 2014 Lannan Residency Program fellowship award.
In an undated interview with the Arab literature project Beirut39, Jarrar said: "'A Map of Home' is the fictionalization of mostly my grappling with my loyalty to my parents and culture.
"If I wrote it another way, it would have been about my sexuality. If I wrote it another way, it would have been about my parents’ eating disorders and how they forced them on me for years. ... I chose to limit my perspective and focus on the voice. Everything else followed from there."
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
I’m gonna go blow up a synagogue to celebrate the death of Barbara Bush!
/sarc(????)
Some of these folks are so freakin’ D A M A G E D !
It looks like her primary loyalty is to food, and lots of it.
The picture validated my optinion she is waste of human life, just a piece of crap.
A mentally unstable nut job. End of story.
publicity-hungry jackass, I am guessing
Randa seems like a nice enough guy.
Wow, would you please sign my napkin?
Do the folks who donate to these universities even pay attention to what goes on there?
How broken and angry this woman is.
“Randa seems like a nice enough guy.”
I knew her brother, Mason. He and I shared quite a few drinks together.
An amazing idiot. That’s who.
Just another fat dyke mad at the world for being normal.
“It looks like her primary loyalty is to food, and lots of it. “
Reminds me of one of the few times Howard Stern made me crack up laughing: He had some “chunky” girl on for one of his auditions or something and he was taunting her, she said something about how she loves to dance and is a dancer and he just said “honey, the only dancing you’ve been doing is in front of the refrigerator”
caught me off guard and I really spewed. never forgot that one
The slob has a website: https://randajarrar.com
She looks like Zero Mostel in drag.
She’s as big as a car.
The links won’t work.
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