An Arab Looks at Americ
Author: Mohammad T. Mehdi
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781258015978
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Looking for Palestine
Author: Najla Said
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1594632758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A frank and entertaining memoir—from the daughter of Edward Said—now in paperback. The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted about her cultural background and identity. Said knew that her parents identified deeply with their homelands, but growing up in a Manhattan world that was defined largely by class and conformity, she felt unsure about who she was supposed to be, and was often in denial of the differences she sensed between her family and those around her. She may have been born a Palestinian Lebanese American, but Said denied her true roots, even to herself—until, ultimately, the psychological toll of her self-hatred began to threaten her health. As she grew older, she eventually came to see herself, her passions, and her identity more clearly. Today she is a voice for second-generation Arab Americans nationwide.
This Is What America Looks Like
Author: ILHAN. OMAR
Publisher:
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1787383415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ilhan Omar's career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress. Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic Party's new progressive chorus of congresswomen of colour.'This Is What America Looks Like' is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the US today. This is Omar's story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America--penniless and speaking only Somali--and her triumphant election to the US House of Representatives.In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times.
Of Lions, Chained
Author: Mohammad Taki Mehdi
Publisher: San Francisco : New World Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
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Author: Toufic El Rassi
Publisher: Last Gasp
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780867196733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through his own life story, from childhood through is life as an adult, El Rassi illustrates the prejudices and discrimination Arabs and Muslims experience daily in American society. He contends with ignorant teachers, racist neighbours, bullying classmates and a growing sense of alienation. He also examines the roles that media and popular culture play and with examples from film and news media, he shows how difficult it is to have an Arab identity in a society saturated with anti-Arab messages.
Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11
Author: Amaney Jamal
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008-02-27
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780815631774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of U.S. racial and ethnic studies. The articles collected here highlight emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and experiences and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the United States? In what ways have the axes of nation, religion, class, and gender intersected with Arab American racial formations? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses that have simply added on the category “Arab-American” to the landscape of U.S. racial and ethnic studies after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than as a beginning, in Arab Americans’
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I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing up Arab in America
Author: Ray Hanania
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1329446674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I'm Glad I Look Like A... Terrorist is a humorous and realistic look at the American ethnic experience by an award-winning Palestinian-American journalist. Hanania describes the subtle and not-so-subtle bigotry facing Arab Americans and offers some solutions for improving America's perceptions of Arabs. An award winning writer, journalist and columnist, Hanania has also performed standup comedy lampooning his Palestinian-Jewish marriage. The book uses humor often to help appreciate and understand the Arab experience in America and follows his life growing up on Chicago's Southeast Side in a prominent Jewish neighborhood through high school, military service during the Vietnam War to his career as a political journalist who covered Chicago City Hall from 1977 through 1992. You can get more information on Hanania by visiting his website at www.Hanania.com.
The American Press Looks at Arab-Americans
Author: Tom Hundley
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of a two-part series on Arab Americans, written by Tom Hundley for the Detroit Free Press in July, 1987.
This Muslim American Life
Author: Moustafa Bayoumi
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1479836842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award A collection of insightful and heartbreaking essays on Muslim-American life after 9/11 Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake “Mustafa Bayoumi” was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an “anti-American, pro-Islam” agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafés. In This Muslim American Life, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.
