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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedDURING THE FIRST YEARS OF THE twenty-first century, the Arab world has been assaulted by multiple crises, including but not limited to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon,...
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From:The Comparatist (Vol. 41) Peer-ReviewedAlmost a decade ago, Al Raida (lit. The Pioneer), a journal based out of the Lebanese American University, published an issue on "Arab Women Writing in English." Among its concerns, the journal hoped to highlight the...
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The dominance of English remains at the heart of scholarly study in order to assess its role in various speech communities and communicative situations. Whether Western or non-Western, societies...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs I LISTENED to my mother, (1) I recalled several experiences growing up within a bicultural Arab American familial and communal context. Al Amerikan (Americans) were often referred to in derogatory sexualized terms....
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION MY REFLECTIONS AND INTROSPECTION about AAUG, the role it played, and the role it did not, or could not play during its active life in the USA, are based on my direct involvement in the Association for...
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a first-hand account of Arab American activism from the 1967 war to the present. It focuses on the development and activities of Arab Americans in the metropolitan Chicago area, with particular...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 1)100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide. www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/arab7.html. Detroit Free Press. (Accessed 11/14/04). Gr 5 Up--The simple Q&A format of this site, intended for...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 14, Issue 06)Byline: Debra E. Blum Ismael Ahmed admits that his Arabic is awful. Yet the Brooklyn-born 54-year-old has become an Arab-American leader through a charity he helped found here 31 years ago to provide translation...
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAmericans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations.... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 38)Byline: PETER MONAGHAN The epithets are flying: Critics say a major survey of Detroit-area Arab-Americans is "exploitative," "old-fashioned," "Orientalist," "potentially harmful," and even "unethical." The critics...
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From:Arab Studies QuarterlyPeer-ReviewedWords and images [run] together like watercolors on a child's easel--Arabs, mosque, terrorism, Muslims, extremists--making it hard to tell where one began and another left off. (1) THE DEMONIZATION OF ISLAM AND...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
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From:MELUS (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDiana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz (1993) recounts the story of Jemorah and Melvina, two young Arab American women of Palestinian descent, who live in the United States with their father, Mamssem. When Jemorah and Melvina...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 79, Issue 4)Arab Americans: all the problems but none of the attention The banter in a summer school writing course in 1984 on the lazy and lush Michigan State University campus turned job prospects in journalism. The flush of...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHISTORIANS OF ARAB AMERICAN HISTORY have long tangled with the problems of area studies. (1) They have argued that the division of social histories into Cold War-era cantons contained within national borders lends...
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From:Teacher Librarian (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE ARAB CULTURES IS RICH WITH HISTORY, TRADITIONS, AND STORYTELLING. HOWEVER, IN THE POLITICALLY CHARGED CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES (MUCH OF IT DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO THE ACTIONS OF A FEW AND OF COURSE THE HOLLYWOOD...
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From:Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined personal, psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental predictors in tobacco use for 1,671 Arab American adolescents. Cigarette smoking in the past 30 days was 6.9%. This increased from 1% at age...
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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedTHE AAUG WAS BORN OUT OF the rubble of the defeat of Arab nationalism caused by the June 1967 Arab Israeli War and the attendant rise of a popular Palestinian guerilla movement of resistance to Israeli occupation....
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI find it hard to write about how I feel as an Arab American, a Lebanese American, after the events of September 11. I am sitting next to a man who works for United Airlines in Virginia and is coming to visit some...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Understanding of COVID-19 acquisition and severity risk in minoritized groups is limited by data collection on race and ethnicity; very little is known about COVID-19 risk among Arab Americans in the United...