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Acknowledgments M ANY PEOPLE have crossed my path and shared my journey during the data collection, analysis, and writing stages that culminated in this book. I am grateful to all who have given me support in the multiple ways humans desire and need. I want to especially thank the individuals who provided research assistance on this project: Sandra Del Toro, Maha El-Nur, Dwan Kaoukji, and Samira Ahmed. I also want to thank Eman Hasabella, Aalia Khawaja, Savera Iftikhar, Mariyam Hussain, Assia Bandaoui, Tahani Hassan, and Ayesha Akhtar, who provided research assistance on other related projects. Opportunities to thank these women who have been eager to forge out and ask questions of others on behalf of my research projects are limited, so thank you! I would also like to thank friends and colleagues who read drafts of various chapters, including Kristine Ajrouch, Jan Abu-Shakrah, Dawne Moon, and David Cole. Thanks also to Kay Wade, from whom I received technical support, and to Cindy Serikaku, my incredible, indefatigable bibliographic assistant. Kind gratitude goes to Stephanie Platz, formerly of the Russell Sage Foundation, whose backing of the ideas behind this research project helped to make it a reality, and to the Foundation as a whole for providing me with generous grant support. I also want to recognize the persistent collegial support of David Perry, director of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois–Chicago, where this project was housed during much of the data collection stage. Several institutions provided me with the scholarly settings, colleagues, and intellectual support for the ongoing cultivation of my thinking and the opportunity to incessantly check my interpretations of data, including the Carnegie Corporation, which awarded me a Carnegie Scholar Award, the Social Science Research Council, the France–Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. My commitment not only to rigorous scholarly work but also to social justice has found a welcoming home at Marquette University, where I moved in 2006. I want to recognize my colleagues there for their support and encouragement while I wrote this book. In addition to great college basketball at Marquette, my welcome in Milwaukee has been made a thousand times warmer by the friendship and kindness of Sandra Edhlund and Art Heitzer. My daughter Anwar lived with this project through her youngest years and has, I believe, developed remarkably well despite its relentless grasp of my time and attention, a state my husband Hassan and son Walid readily tolerated with ongoing patience. Thanks to everyone named and unnamed who has made my life richer and my work more meaningful. Finally, thanks to the members of the Arab American and Muslim American communities who have opened their doors and lives to me. I am evermore grateful for your trust in me and your confidence in the integrity of my work. xii Acknowledgments ...

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