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Abstract
The quest for identity in Haji Jabir’s Black Foam Daoud, David or Dawit is an Eritrean man on a journey to discover his identity and which land does he belong to? He moves as a refugee from Eritrea to Ethiopia to Israel. Does he maintain his Muslim identity or give it up for Christianity? Is he a Falasha jew who is ultimately in conviction that Israel is his homeland? Black Foam by Al Jazeera journalist Haji Jabir is a book that sheds light on the intersectionality and complexity of both Afro-Arab and Afro- Israeli identities. The book was long listed for the International Arab Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2019. This paper describes the struggles African refuges and migrant go through in their real-life journeys. Through following the story of Daoud, this paper hopes to find an answer to the questions: How does Haji Jabir represent Eritreans living in Middle East? How does Black Foam speak to a universal issue of migration, displacement, and resettlement? Etc.
Discipline
Literature
Geographic Area
All Middle East
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