Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade

Contributors

395 NABEEL ABRAHAM grew up in Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s. He has taught anthropology at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan , since 1985, where he also directs the Henry Ford II Honors Program. In 2000 he and Andrew Shryock received the Award of Merit from the Historical Society of Michigan for Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. KRISTINE J. AJROUCH is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University and Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She has published in Sociological Perspectives , International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Aging & Society, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology , Journal of Social Issues, and Ethnicity & Health. She recently edited a special issue of Research in Human Development. KHADIGAH ALASRY is a teacher at Bridge Academy in Hamtramck, Michigan, and youth director for the Muslim American Society in Detroit. HAYAN CHARARA is the author of two poetry books, The Alchemist’s Diary and The Sadness of Others, and editor of Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, the Lucille Joy Prize for Poetry, and the New Voices Award Honor for The Three Lucys, a children ’s book. YASMEEN HANOOSH is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University. Contributors 396 Contributors She defended her dissertation, “The Politics of Minority: Chaldeans between Iraq and America,” at the University of Michigan in 2008. Her essays on Iraqi Chaldeans have appeared in Arab Voices in Diaspora (Layla Al Maleh, ed.) and the Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies. SALLY HOWELL is Assistant Professor of History in the Center for Arab American Studies and the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Her published works include Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11 and essays in Diaspora, Food and Foodways, Visual Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law. AMANEY JAMAL is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where she directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development. Her books include Barriers to Democracy, Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11, and Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11. LAWRENCE JOSEPH is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law. His most recent books of poems are Into It and Codes, Precepts , Biases and Taboos: Poems 1973–1993. He is the author of Lawyerland and The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose. Born in Detroit in 1948, his grandparents, Lebanese and Syrian Catholics, were among the first Arab American émigrés to the city. KIM SCHOPMEYER is Associate Dean of Social Science at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan. A sociologist who focuses on social inequality, racial and ethnic groups, and survey research, Schopmeyer has conducted numerous studies related to demographic and educational issues in greater Detroit. MUJAN SEIF, a senior at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is a poet, varsity athlete, and honors student. ANDREW SHRYOCK is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has done ethnographic and historical research in Yemen, Jordan, and among Arab immigrant and ethnic populations in North America. His books include Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11, and Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Contributors 397 ABDULKADER H. SINNO is Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and he is a Carnegie Scholar. His books include Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond and Muslims in Western Politics. He has also published articles in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Religion and Politics, and in several edited volumes. MATTHEW W. STIFFLER is a researcher at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He received his PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 2010. His dissertation is titled “Authentic Arabs, Authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the Mobilization of Cultural Identity.” EREN TATARI is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rollins College. Her research on ethnic and religious minorities in the United States and Western Europe has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and...