Mohja Kahf was brought up in the United States though she was born in Syria. Presently she is working as a professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas.
These days she’s hit the headlines coz of her famous work The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.
The plot revolves around a female protagonist who is from Syria but has settled in the American Midwest and it moves in the social settings of 1970s.
Very deftly, she has projected the cultural clashes of Muslim life in America. Nevertheless, some critics are of the view that the novel has a flavor of autobiographical element in it, which however is rejected by the writer.
