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Nada Jarrar, author of Somewhere, Home, a fictionalised account of the life of her Arab grandmother, claims that Norma Khouri perpetrated a betrayal of Arab women in her book Forbidden Love. Jarrar also notes that 'It is sad that she [Khouri] was able to find so willing an audience in the West.'