Anan Ameri

About The Author

Dr. Anan Ameri is a writer, educator, activist and the award-winning author of The Scent of Jasmine (Interlink, 2017). She is the founding director of Dearborn’s celebrated Arab American National Museum (AANM). She has won a Palestine Book Award, was named the 2005 Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News, was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame, and was named the 2020 Arab American of the Year.

Books by Anan Ameri

Khaled and Jamila
By Anan Ameri
Khaled and Jamila is a sweeping, multigenerational novel by Palestinian-American writer Anan Ameri that explores the enduring power of love and family across continents and cultures, asking what, in a divided world, truly lasts.
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The Scent of Jasmine

Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus

By Anan Ameri
JOURNEY TO A WORLD LITTLE KNOWN TO WESTERN READERS. Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri’s refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence and passage to adulthood as a young woman in the Arab wo...
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