Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream

Index

Index Abayas, 280,323,334 Abbasia, Egypt, 222 Abd al-Latif, Sheikh, 250,254,264 'Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad, 450, 489,553 AbdelFattah, Halimah, 499-501, 504,506,507-8,509,510 Abraham, Issa, 428 Abraham, Malik, 431 Abraham, Nabeel, 21, 67, 378, 425-62; on Arab American political culture, 22-23, 343; Arabs in the New World, 20; parents of, 425-30; study of the Dix mosque, 27,200,202 Abraham, Nazeeh, 431,451 Abraham, Richard (Tawfik), 428 Abraham, Sameer, 20, 65, 69, 428, 430,431,434 Abraham, Spencer, 49,267-68 Abraham, Younis ("Bob"), 26, 181-95,427-29 Abraham, Zeiyad, 431 Abusalah, Samiha, 532 Acculturation, 542-44 Afghani Americans, 544n. 6 African American community, relationships with Arab American storeowners, 167-68 Age distribution, 72-73 Agemy, Mary, 503 Ahmed, Ismael ("Ish"), 22, 56, 258, 315,351,492 Ahmed, Saladin, 318,319-20 "Ala del'ouna," 186 Al-Ameer restaurant, Dearborn, 527 Alamoudi, Abdurahman, 366 Al-Azhar University, 287,288 Al-Bay'aa, 182,193. See also Peddlers Alcohol, 247; decrease in consumption after Iranian revolution, 544n. 8; with mezzeh, 529-30; sale of, 158-59 Al-Daher, Egypt, 222 Aldrich, Howard E., 156 Algeria, 286,452,453-55 Alienation, 16,393-99,451,456 Ali ibn Abi Talib, Imam, 324 Al-jalia al-arabiyya, 485 Al-Minya, Egypt, 222 Al-Ouds (Jerusalem), 449 Al-Watan, 231 Alwujude, Shams (pseud.), 377-78, 379,381-90 Amal (Lebanese political party), 264 Amen, Alan, 266,367 Amen, Lila, 26,200,201,242-78 Amen, Mohsen, 26,200,201,242-78 Amen, Ronald, 301,307n. 23 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 24, 39, 56,456 American Bekaa Lebanese League, 282 613 Index American Coptic Associations, 231 American Federation of Ramallah, Palestine, 466,580 American identity politics, 27, 28, 31 American-Israel Political Action Committee, 370 Americanization, 17, 24, 30,108, 116-17,129,202,208 American Moslem Bekaa Center, 270,281-82 American Moslem Society, 244 American Moslem Women's Society, 282,283-84,285,287-89, 292,298 "American" mosques, 301-2 American Muslim Council, 366 "An American Reunion on the Mall," 507-8 Anderson, Benedict, 219,561 Anti-Lebanon, 108 "Anti-Semitic," 474-77 "Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom" (Perlman), 476 Appadurai, Arjun, 220, 231, 558, 568 An Arab America Century, 511 "Arab American," 456,472 Arab American Chamber of Commerce, 316,361 Arab American Cleopatra label, 555 Arab American Institute (AAI), 39, 56,343,363-64,366 Arab Americans: academic literature on, 27; attempts to combat negative image, 40; census undercounting of, 63-64, 65-67; lack of public acceptance, 15; of mixed ancestry, 67; political culture, 23 Arab Americans, of Detroit: age distribution by ancestry group, 72-73; Americanization as dominant cultural force, 17-18, 206-10, 314; and auto industry, 18-19, 51, 52, 402; blue-collar work, 95; class and suburbia in, 53-55; communal life, 210, 216; concern with U.S. foreign policy, 313, 344, 345, 357-63, 367-68; differences between nativeborn and foreign-born, 76, 86-87; discrimination against, 363-67; diversity, 39, 88-89; education, 80-82; effect of recent immigration on Islamic practice, 280-81; entrepreneurship, 82-83, 152-53; ethnic and national groups, 69-73; family and household patterns, 76-80; gender/sexuality issues, 583-84; genesis, 51-53; geographic locations by time of entry into United States, 76; identity {see Ethnic identity); immigration following World War II, 53; importance of family life, 575; income patterns, 86-87; intergroup conflicts, 168-73; life stories, 592-99; local identity discourse, 22-23; migration patterns, 74-76; occupations, 82-85, 96; patriarchy, 586-88; political future, 368-71; politics, 53,315-16; popularity of Nasser among, 304n. 7; population, 15, 18-19,25,34n. 1,42-43,62,64-68; public identity discourse, 20-21; reaction to events in Middle East, 313, 345, 357-63; separate political communities among, 359-60; social life, 584-86; tension between assimilationists and hard-liners, 277; traditional arts among, 493-503; transition from immigrant to ethnic group, 483-85,599-601; transition from marginal to mainstream, 29; in the 1990 U.S. census, 68-87; 614 INDEX year of immigration, 75. See also specific groups Arab Americans for Good Government, 371 Arab Americans in Greater Detroit: A Community between Two Worlds, 512n. 5 Arab Bank Ltd., 183 Arab bread (pita), 524,525,536,547 Arab Community Center for Economic and Social...