Abstract
The aim of this study is to address the nostalgic elements found in the Writings of the Arab American poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Nye is an American Palestinian poet whose works are mainly concerned with revealing her father’s homesickness and detailing his lomging for his homeland and childhood memories. 
 
 The study makes an attempt to prove that the overwhelming nostalgia bonds the person with his lost homeland, and prevents him from forgetting his past; therefore’ these feelings stand as a barrier between him and his new world. Displacement and homesickness are the main elements that increased the nostalgia of the immigrants for their homelands. To emphasize this, the current paper analysed some of Nye's poems which handle the sever nostalgia that Nye's father started suffering since the early beginning of his arrival to San Antonio, Texas in the United States of America.
 
 Besides, the study argues that the nostalgic feeling for the homeland has been transmitted from father to son/ daughter, although the later doesn't have any memories in his/ her ex- homeland. Thus, Nye herself started feeling the nostalgia for a past she has never lived and to a homeland she has never seen.
Highlights
The concept of place is considered as one of the most familiar phenomena in our modern life
Some of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poems have been selected to explain how this feeling of displacement and homesickness that her father and other immigrants suffered from clearly appeared in her writings, and how Nye tried to let the rest of the world know about her father’s homesickness and alienation in a new place that he doesn’t belong to
The current paper concluded that Nye relies heavily on her father’s memory as a space that enables her to travel with him to his past
Summary
The concept of place is considered as one of the most familiar phenomena in our modern life. The article explains that this sense of displacement prevented those immigrants from leading a normal life away from their homeland, enhancing their longing for their past life. For this purpose, some of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poems have been selected to explain how this feeling of displacement and homesickness that her father and other immigrants suffered from clearly appeared in her writings, and how Nye tried to let the rest of the world know about her father’s homesickness and alienation in a new place that he doesn’t belong to. Those people are overwhelmed by their sorrows and nostalgia as Nye’s father was one of the Palestinian immigrants who couldn’t cope with the new culture in a new world
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