{"id":437,"date":"2021-02-06T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulzarou.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=437"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:19:37","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulzarou.com\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paulzarou.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2155-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1074\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6669947601540109;width:325px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ARAB AMERICAN BLUES<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-a-novel\"><strong>A Novel <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-a-palestinian-american-coming-of-age-story\"><strong>A Palestinian-American Coming of Age Story<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;<strong>A story of identity, intimacy, and familial struggles &#8230; A young man\u2019s coming-of-age amid war and social unrest in the 1960s &#8230; The novel\u2019s empathy and humanism are admira<\/strong>ble &#8230;&#8221; \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Interlink Publishing &#8211; Release Date April 7, 2026<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-normal-icon-size is-style-default is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 ARAB AMERICAN BLUES A Novel A Palestinian-American Coming of Age Story &#8220;A story of identity, intimacy, and familial struggles &#8230; A young man\u2019s coming-of-age amid war and social unrest in the 1960s &#8230; The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/paulzarou.com\/wordpress\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/right-column.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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