Selected Resources in Arab American Studies

Publications

A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, eds. Kathleen Benson and Philip Kayal. New York: Museum of the City of New York/Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community, Elizabeth Boosahda. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans, eds. Persis Karim and Mohammad M. Khorrami. New York: George Braziller, 1999.

Arab Americans: Continuity and Change, eds. Baha Abu-Laban and Michael Suleiman. Belmont, Mass.: Association of Arab American University Graduates, 1989.

Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, eds. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2000.

Arabs in America: Building a New Future, ed. Michael Suleiman. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1999.

Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities, eds. Sameer Abraham and Nabeel Abraham. Detroit: Wayne State Univ, 1983.

Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab Americans, Gregory Orfalea. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.

The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities, Simha Flapan. NewYork: Pantheon, 1987.

Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims, ed. Elaine C. Hagopian. Chicago: Haymarket Books/Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2004.

Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Dan Rabinowitz and Khawla Abu-Baker. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angelus and London, 2005.

Crossing the Waters: Arabic-Speaking immigrants to the United States Before 1940, ed. Eric Hooglund. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.

Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua, (fiction) translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger. New York: Grove Press, 2004.

Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship, Paul Findley. Washington, D.C.: American Educational Trust, 1995.

Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction, eds. Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004.

Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of Arabs in Israel, Majid Al-Haj. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists, ed. Joanne Kadi. Boston: South End Press, 2004.

Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles, ed. Ron Kelley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago, Garbi Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.

Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Adair T. Lummis. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1987.

Israel: An Apartheid State, Uri Davis. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd., 1987.

The Logic of Democratic Exclusion: African Americans in the United States and Palestinian Citizens in Israel, Rebecca B.Kook. Lexington Books, Oxford, UK, 2002.

Middle Eastern Lives in America, eds. Amir Marvasti and Karyn McKinney. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Muslim Families in North America, eds. Earle Waugh, Sharon M. Abu-Laban, & Regula B. Qureshi. Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta Press, 1991.

Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible, eds. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane I Smith. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2002.

Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing, eds. Munir Akash and Khaled Mattawa. Bethesda, MD: Kitab/Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

The Question of Palestine. Edward Said. New York: Times Books, 1980.

Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century, eds. Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (http://www.wrema.com).

What Ethnic Americans Really Think: The Zogby Culture Polls. James Zogby. Washington, DC: Zogby International, 2001.

Films

Benaat Chicago: Growing Up Arab and Female in Chicago. Dir. Jennifer Bing-Canar and Mary Zerkel. Arab Film Distribution (http:www.arabfilm.com).

Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948. Dir. Jennifer Bing-Canar. Arab Film Distribution.

Edward Said: On Orientalism. Dir. Sut Jhally. The Media Education Foundation (http://www.mediaef.org).

In My Own Skin: The Complexity of Living as an Arab in America. Dir. Nikki Byrd and Jennifer Jajeh. Arab Film Distribution.

Lest We Forget. Dir. Jason DaSilva. In Face Films.

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