ARABAMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY Books and Articles

ARAB­AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Articles, Bibliographies,
Periodicals, Library and Museum
Collections, and Organizations
For materials on anti­Arab discrimination and stereotyping, see the ADC bibliographies
“Anti­Arab/Muslim Discrimination and Civil Liberties Violations” and “Cultural Stereotyping,
Media Bias, and Orientalism: Perceptions of Arabs, Muslims, and the Middle East.”
For materials on women, see “Arab American Women and Gender Issues: A Bibliography.”
For literature, see “Arab­American Literature and the Arts: A Bibliography.
Contents:
History, Biography, and Community Studies
Bureau of the Census and Department of Homeland Security
Bibliographies
Periodicals
Library and Museum Collections
Organizations
Religious Communities
History, Biography, and Community Studies
Abdelhadi, Reem and Rabab Abdulhadi. “Nomadic Existence: Exile, Gender and Palestine”
An email exchange between two Palestinian sisters. Personal reflections on their experience of
exile in the U.K. and the U.S. Online at
http://www.academia.edu/1011369/Nomadic_existence_Exile_gender_and_Palestine.
Abdelhady, Dalia. The Lebanese Diaspora: the Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal,
New York,, and Paris (New York: NYU Press, 2011). Interviews with 80 immigrants provide
new insights into the construction of transnational relationships, new forms of identity, and
“cosmopolitan citizenship.” Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=xvVPGrX2gBcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=.++The+Lebanese+Diaspora:
+the+Arab+Immigrant+Experience+in+Montreal,+New+York,,+and+Paris&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o7yqUIDDJMi_
0QGgj4DACg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA.
Abdel­Malek, Kamal, ed. America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic
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Travel Literature: An Anthology (Palgrave Macmillan, 20000). Travel essays by Arab
writers from different countries and social backgrounds who visited the U.S. from the 1890s to
the 1990s.
They are forced to revise their preconceptions and discover an America that they find to be
“everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive
female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.”
Abdulhadi, Rabab. “Activism and Exile: Palestinianness and the Politics of Solidarity” in Maggie
Checker and Maggie Fishman, eds., Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public
Life in America (Columbia University Press, 2004). An overview of the development of
Palestinian political activism from the 1960s. Online at
http://www.academia.edu/1115316/Activism_and_Exile_Palestinianness_and_the_Politics_of.
“Where is home? Fragmented lives, border crossings, and the politics of exile.”
(Radical History Review, Issue 86, Spring 2003, 89­101). Personal reflections of life in the
U.S. and visits to the West Bank and the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon. Online at
http://www.academia.edu/1011364/Where_is_home_Fragmented_lives_border_crossings_and_the_politics
_of_exile.
Abinader, Elmaz. Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey (New York: W.W. Norton,
1991). A loving look back to the immigrant experience of the author’s family in 1916­20 and
the family’s life in Lebanon and the U.S. The story of three generations based on diaries,
letters, interviews. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=niDyhVArJ4kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Children+of+the+Roojme&hl
=en&sa=X&ei=0iucUJS0LI­m9gS4i4CACw&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA.
Aboud, Brian. “Re­reading Arab World – New World Immigration History: Beyond the
Prewar/postwar Divide.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Vol. 26 (2000).
Questions the standard idea of “waves” of Arab migration, by comparing the U.S. with Canada
and Australia.
Abourezk, James. Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate
(Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989). From his early years as the son of a Lebanese
immigrant to his Senate career; a champion of American Indian self­determination, supporter of
a Palestinian state, critic of PAC money, defender of small farmers, and founder of ADC.
Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=JEhlFRGufVQC&pg=PT91&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&
f=false.
Abraham, Nabil and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000). Analytical articles, memoirs, poems present the
diversity of the largest Arab­American community ­­ Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, Palestinian.
Covers food, music, religion, identity, politics with theoretical sophistication and personal
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immediacy. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=5cw3WKvVt4MC&pg=PA39&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&
q&f=false.
Abraham, Sameer and Nabeel Abraham, eds. The Arab World and Arab­Americans:
Understanding a Neglected Minority (Detroit: Wayne State University, Center for Urban
Studies, 1981). Articles include a survey of the peoples and cultures of the Arab world, Arab­
American identity, stereotyping and education, multicultural and bilingual education, and
approaches to teaching about the Arab world.
Abraham, Sameer and Nabeel Abraham, eds. Arabs in the New World: Studies on
Arab­American Communities (Detroit: Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies,
1983). Articles address immigration patterns, residential settlements, occupations, religious
institutions, assimilation and acculturation of Arab Christians and Muslims. Case studies cover
Arab­ American communities in Detroit ­­ Yemenis, Iraqi Chaldeans, Lebanese Maronites and
working class Muslims in the Southend neighborhood. Useful bibliographies.
Abu­Absi, Samir. Arab Americans in Toledo: Cultural Assimilation and Community
Development (University of Toledo Press, 2010). Essays, interviews, profiles, and pictures;
covers language, food, religion, history, and culture, as well as personal stories from a
community that began in the 1880s.
Abu­Jaber, Diane. The Language of Baklava: A Memoir (Anchor Books, 2005). A literary
autobiographical account of growing up in upstate New York with a Jordanian immigrant father
who loved to cook. A “bitingly humorous” look at the difficulties of growing up bicultural. The
vignettes are organized around food, meals, recipes and aim at recreating the truth of the
“emotional core” of events. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=EmPCP4hbVuQC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q
&f=false. Reviewed at http://www.aljadid.com/content/cooking­and­writing­arab­america.
Abu­Laban, Baha, and Faith T. Zeadey, eds. Arabs in America: Myths and Realities
(Wilmette, IL: Medina University Press International, 1975). Articles on the Arab image in the
mass media, the institutional bases of stereotypes (Orientalism, textbooks, church school
curricula, fundamentalist Christianity), the question of Palestine, Arab­American auto workers in
Detroit and Yemeni migrant workers in California.
Abu­Laban, Baha & Michael W. Suleiman, eds. Arab Americans: Continuity and Change.
Arab Studies Quarterly 11, nos. 2­3 (Spring, Summer 1989). 20 multidisciplinary essays on
Arab­American identity, art, and politics.
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002). An anthropological study of the (mostly)
post­1989 immigration from Sudan. It uses personal stories to examine the transnational
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networks that assisted immigrants, the difficulties in attempting to preserve traditional customs
while adjusting to U.S. lifestyles in new economic and social settings. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jbq79_59z8IC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=
false.
Ahmed, Ismael, Anan Ameri, and Maha Freij. Telling Our Story: The Arab American
National Museum (Dearborn: Arab American National Museum, 2007). A coffee table book
with hundreds of illustrations that describe how the Museum was created and introduce its
exhibits. A “visual tribute” that conveys the spirit and message of the institution by presenting
the history and diversity of the Arab­American community through a wide range of “rare facts,
photographs, and anecdotes” and profiles of prominent Arab Americans.
Ahmed, Leila. A Border Passage: From Cairo to America, a Woman’s Journey (Farrar,
Straus, & Giroux, 1999). Ahmed is a professor at the Harvard Divinity School. She tells the
story of her childhood in the multi­religious Cairo of the 1940s and 1950s and growing up
amidst the historic events of Egyptian independence from England, the Arab­Israeli conflict, and
the rise of Arab nationalism. Coming from “a rich tradition of Islamic women,” she finds her
place as “a feminist living in America.” Reviewed at
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/451/bk1_451.htm.
Ahmed, Yasmine M. The New York Egyptians: voyages and dreams (Cairo/New York:
American University In Cairo Press, 2010). Research on immigrants who were professionals in
Egypt in the 1990s, but were forced to take low wage/low status jobs in New York. Covers
their migration stories, experience of downward economic mobility, family life, and experience
of “racialization” after 9/11.
Ajrouch, Kristine J. “Health Disparities and Arab­American Elders: Does Intergenerational
Support Buffer the Inequality­Health Link?” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 63, Issue 4
(December 2007), 745­758. Emotional support from their children is found to have health
benefits for elders with lower levels of education.
“Gender, race, and symbolic boundaries: contested spaces of identity among Arab
American adolescents.” Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter 2004), 371­391.
Ajrouch, Kristine J. and Amaney Jamal. “Assimilating to a White Identity: the Case of Arab
Americans.” International Migration Review, Vol. 41, Issue 4 (December 2007), 860­879.
Examines relationship between “white” identity and national, religious, and “Arab­American”
identity. Abstract at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747­7379.2007.00103.x/abstract.
Alkhairo, Marwa Wael. “Iraqi disaporic identity across generations, struggle, and war.” (M.A.
Thesis, Georgetown University, 2008). Interviews with Iraqi Americans reveal an affirmation of
Iraqi national identity, rejection of the polarized sectarian attitudes resulting from the U.S.
invasion, and hopes for a unified and democratic Iraq. The link below does not work, but if you
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paste the link into Google, it will retrieve the document.
http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/552815/alkhairomarwa.pdf?sequence=1.
Alsultany, Evelyn Azeeza and Ella Habiba Shohat, eds. Between the Middle East and the
Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Analyses
“the production and circulation of discourses about the Middle East” in the Americas,
highlighting “the fraught and ambivalent situation of Arabs/Muslims in the Americas, where they
are at once celebrated and demonized, integrated and marginalized, simultaneously invisible and
spectacularly visible.” It addresses both the Orientalist treatment of Arab/Muslim culture as an
exotic consumer item and Arab/Muslim self­representation in a multitude of cultural forms.
Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=Or8pkBDNRwkC&pg=PA39&dq=nadine+naber&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9dfq
UazRKIbS9QST6oDgCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=nadine%20naber&f=false.
Ameri, Anan and Dawn Lockwood. Arab Americans in Metro Detroit: A Pictorial History
(Arcadia Publishing, 2001). “A visual history that explores the history of four generations of
Arab Americans in metro Detroit. Through more than 180 images, this book portrays the
challenges and triumphs of Arabs as they preserve their families, and build churches, mosques,
restaurants, businesses, and institution, thus contributing to Detroit’s efforts in regaining its
position as a world class city.” Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=A4tNVgb_i6gC&pg=PA6&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f
=false.
Ameri, Anan and Holly Arida. Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century
(Greenwood, 2012). Examines the immigrant experience, family life, religion, education,
professional and political life, the arts, and the impact of 9/11 and U.S. Middle East policy.
Introduction online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=9u1bAx2­A3IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=daily+life+of+arab+americans
&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KHLkUeeQDPex4AOl2oEo&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=daily%20life%20of%
20arab%20americans&f=false.
Arab American Institute. “Healing the Nation: The Arab­American Response to September
11.” Booklet discussing the immediate responses to 9/11 at the governmental and community
level, Arab­American educational outreach to other communities, and civil rights and civil
liberties issues. Available online through a title search. The AAI website has numerous articles,
reports, polls and other resources on Arab Americans: www.aai.org.
Arabic Yellow Pages. Annual listings of businesses in Michigan and San Diego.
http://www.arabicyellowpages.us/
Aryain, Ed. From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant (Texas Tech
University Press, 2006). The story of a 15­year­old Syrian boy who walked 120 miles to
Beirut, came to American, became a peddler, opened a store in western oil boom towns, and
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settled in West Texas. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/From_Syria_to_Seminole.html?id=1LE_sucVsVoC.
Aswad, Barbara C., ed. Arabic Speaking Communities in American Cities (New York:
Center for Migration Studies and the Association of Arab­American University Graduates,
1974). Articles cover Arab immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta, and Dearborn, Michigan;
immigrants from Ramallah; Maronites in Detroit; Muslims in the Southend neighborhood of
Dearborn; "Syrian" Americans; and bilingual children. Bibliographies.
Aswad, Barbara C. and Barbara Bilge, eds. Families and Gender Among American
Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Children (Philadelphia,
Temple University Press, 1997). Arab, Turkish, Iranian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants.
Social and historical analysis of the Muslim immigration. Half a dozen articles specifically on
Arab Americans. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=vkWr8KWr8G0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=barbara+c+aswad&hl=en&
sa=X&ei=qIKRUJnLA4T68QTB6ICYCw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=barbara%20c%20aswad&f=
false.
El­Badry, Samia. “The Arab­American Market” in American Demographics (January 1994).
4­page summary from the 1990 Census: population data, income, education, occupation, age.
“Providing census tabulations to government security agencies in the United States: The
case of Arab Americans.” Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 2 (April
2007). In 2004 it was revealed that the U.S. Census had provided detailed information on
Arab Americans in selected zip codes to the Department of Homeland Security. To restore
public trust, El­Badry recommends that the Census be removed from the Executive branch and
made an independent agency.
Bawardi, Hani J. "Arab American political organizations from 1915 to 1951: Assessing
transnational political consciousness and the development of Arab American identity." (Ph.D.
dissertation, Wayne State University, 2009). Analyzes the development of Arab nationalism,
political organizations, and transnational activism among Arab immigrants from before World
War I until World War II. Abstract at http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/dissertations/AAI3349964/.
Benson, Kathleen, ed. A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City
(Museum of City of New York, 2002). “A timely look at New York City's Arab communities
from a variety of topics and viewpoints. A collection of academics, poets, activists, and others
contribute 17 essays that collectively draw a portrait of Arab American life in New York, from
the early Syrian immigrants of the late 19th­century to the present. Personal recollections
accompany more scholarly examinations of the mosques of the city, recent Arab contributions
to the arts, cultural traditions of early immigrants, and anti­Arab bias in Hollywood films.” Partly
online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=qFSIf5Zz26gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=arab+american&hl=en&sa=X
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&ei=h3­RUOmEO4PS9ASG2IGgAQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=arab%20american&f=false.
Bier, Jess. “How Niqula Nasrallah Became John Jacob Astor: Syrian Emigrants Aboard the
Titanic and the Materiality of Language.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 18, Issue
2, (2008), 171–191. Nasrallah’s body was at first identified as that of millionaire John Jacob
Astor. Some 10­20% of the third­class passengers on the Titanic were “Syrians,” whose
names and identities were distorted in reports of the disaster. This article discusses Syrian
emigration and ways in which new radio technology reinforced patterns of discrimination,
power, and hierarchy. Available online by a title search.
Bishai, Sally. Mid­east Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American.
(Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 2004). Breezily­written, self­published commentary on Arab
culture as experienced in everyday life, cultural traits, temperament, politics, dating, marriage,
singleness, culture shock and assimilation. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=VDkURxrChSAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_similarbook
s#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Boosahda, Elizabeth. Arab­American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant
Community (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). Focuses on the first generation of
immigrants (1880­1915) and their descendants in Worcester, MA. Topics covered include
Arab entrepreneurship and success, family life, religion and community life, and the role of
women in initiating immigration. Based on over 200 interviews. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Arab_American_Faces_and_Voices.html?id=ZPhYhcvxwAcC.
“Migration” from Boosahda, Arab­American Faces and Voices. Online at
http://acc.teachmideast.org/texts.php?module_id=9&reading_id=1023.
Brox, Jane. Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1999). An “elegant meditation” on her grandparents and parents life on a farm in
the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts. It also deals with the life of immigrant workers in the
textile factories and the 1912 “Bread and Roses” strike that confronted militias in Lawrence. A
National Book Critic Circle Award finalist. A few pages online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=ngAVBYuRyb8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22five+hundred+days+lik
e+this+one%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mXTkUdGxJaKTyQHSjYD4DQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=
%22five%20hundred%20days%20like%20this%20one%22&f=false.
Cable, Umayyah. “New Wave Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies and the Critical Turn.”
American Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 1 (March 2013). Analyzes the development of Arab
American studies and its marginalization in the field of ethnic studies and its place in the
academy. A rethinking of the field in terms of decolonial, antiracist, queer, Third World, and
feminist of color perspectives.
Christison, Kathleen. “The American Experience: Palestinians in the U.S.” Journal of
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Palestine Studies 18, no. 4 (Summer 1989).
Curiel, Jonathan. Al’ America: travels through America’s Arab and Islamic roots (New
York: New Press; distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008). A lively, humorous exploration of
Islamic and Arab influences on American life, music, and culture from Emerson to Elvis, the
Alamo to the ice cream cone. It reveals an unknown but “continuous pattern of give­and­take
between America and the Arab­Muslim world.”
David, Gary C. ‘The Creation of “Arab American”: Political Activism and Ethnic (Dis)Unity.”
Critical Sociology, Vol. 33 no. 5­6 (September 2007) 833­862. Abstract at
http://crs.sagepub.com/content/33/5­6/833.short.
Dickinson, Eliot. Copts in Michigan (Michigan State University Press, 2008). Discussion of
the history of the Copts, their emigration, and the community in Michigan. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=YWaZ1mRuKksC&printsec=frontcover&dq=eliot+dickinson&hl=en&sa
=X&ei=67HlUZOfNLCWyAGb1oCYCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Doche­Boulos, Viviane. Cedars on the Mississippi: Lebanese­Americans in the Twin Cities
(R&E Pub., 1978). Life in Minneapolis­St. Paul.
Dwairy, Marwan. Cross­Cultural Counseling: The Arab­Palestinian Case (New York: The
Haworth Press, 1998). Outlines Arab­Palestinian culture, psychological aspects, socialization
personality, cultural attitudes toward mental health, and cross­cultural issues in therapy. Partly
online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=p4x14kcRb5sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=marwan+Dwairy&hl=en&sa=
X&ei=yR3CUZvZBLit4APT8oD4Cg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
El­Badry, Samia. “The Arab­American Market.” American Demographics (January 1994).
4­page summary from the 1990 Census: population data, income, education, occupation, age.
Ellis, Raff. Kisses from a Distance (Seattle: Cune Press, 2007). The story of the author’s
immigrant family based on 200 letters from family and friends over 60 years. He tells the story
of his grandparents who escaped oppressive conditions under the Ottoman Empire and during
World War I, their unhappy marriage, and the “tragic struggle” for success in the U.S. It is also
the story of the author’s visits to Lebanon and efforts to uncover his family’s history. Partly
online at http://books.google.com/books?id=XfvuZeRUEckC&source=gbs_similarbooks.
Ellasar, Aladdin. For Stars and Stripes: American­Arabs in the U.S. Military since the
Revolutionary War. (Palatine, IL: Beacon Press, 2010).
Farshee, Lewis. The Way of the Emigrants: Badawi and Catherine Simon in America
(Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010). The author traces his grandparents from their
Maronite village in Mount Lebanon in the 1890s, their lives in Mobile and Montgomery,
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Alabama, up through the Depression of the 1930s. He also tells the story of his return to
Lebanon, meeting the family still there, and learning the story of his family. A few pages are
online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=9puPGVB8z18C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Fawaz, Zeinab. Success Factors of Lebanese Small Businesses in the United States.
(AuthorHouse, 2012). A quantitative study finds that business success is due to “human
resources, operational management, management attributes, economic health and government
regulations, and owners’ personal traits.” A few pages are online at
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=D7zt3th7LTwC&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=Success+Factors+of
+Lebanese+Small+Businesses+in+the+United+States&ots=BQfw_DApI7&sig=dC0Vl4zOGIw9kDgJqie6bRc
wv3c.
Freij, Janice Ann. “The Arab American National Museum: Cultural Competency Training in
Post­9/11 America.” Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring 2011).
Discusses the Museum’s success in cross­cultural bridge­building with law enforcement,
educators, government, and other professionals.
Garrett, Paul D. and Kathleen A. Purpura. Frank Maria: A Search for Justice and Peace in
the Middle East (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007). Biography of an Arab American
whose life was devoted to pressing American political and religious leaders and the media to
have a better understanding of the Arab world (especially the often ignored Arab Christians),
Arab Americans, and the Palestinian cause. For decades he was a key figure in representing an
Arab perspective to the National Council of Churches. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=nwsvhw1wLgkC&pg=RA1­PA257&dq=Metropolitan+Philip:+His+Life+
and+Dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qlOqUPijH4Ww8ASPj4HgDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Metr
opolitan%20Philip%3A%20His%20Life%20and%20Dreams&f=false. Summary at
http://www.frankmaria.com/resume/detailed_summary.htm.
GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New
World Order (Cambridge University Press, 2010). A comprehensive analysis of the presence
of Muslims (from the Arab world and elsewhere) in the U.S. from colonial times to the present.
Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=xKsLCx2VmcwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Gillquist, Peter E. Metropolitan Philip: His Life and Dreams ­ The Authorized Biography of
His Eminence, Metropolitan Philip Saliba (Thomas Nelson, 1991). The story of the Primate
of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Gualtieri, Sarah. ‘Becoming "White": Race, Religion, and the Formation of Syrian/Lebanese
Ethnicity in the United States.’ Journal of American Ethnic History (Summer 2001). Online
at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/86834701/Sarah­Gualtieri­Becoming­White­Race­Religion­and­the­Foundations­
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of­Syrian­Lebanese­Ethnicity­in­the­United­States.
Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian Diaspora
(University of California Press, 2009). The story of the first wave of Lebanese and Syrian
immigration from the late 19th century until World War II and up to the present. An analysis of
how Arab immigrants “came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within
racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.” The book examines
how Arabs became “white” and how they variously “interpreted, accepted, or contested” this
official classification. Part of the introduction is online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=MPxrMLKuXvkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sarah+gualtieri&hl=en&sa
=X&ei=SjmRUbfpOu3w0QGQq4HoBg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sarah%20gualtieri&f=false.
Reviewed at http://www.aljadid.com/content/embracing­inbetweenness.
“Gendering the Chain Migration Thesis: Women and Syrian Transatlantic Migration,
1878­1924.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 24,
No. 1 (2004).
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck. “Arab American Christian Scholars and the Study of the Middle
East in the United States.” (Center for Muslim­Christian Understanding, Georgetown
University, May 7, 2010). Bibliographic essay on the immigrant scholars who countered
modernization theory, challenged stereotypes and Orientalism, documented Arab/Islamic
civilization, analyzed Middle East economies, addressed the problem of Israel, reevaluated the
role of women, and founded the field of Middle East Studies in the U.S. Online through a title
search ­­ on the ACMCU website, under the section ACMCU Faculty in the News, May 7,
2010.
“A Century of Islam in America.” (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1986).
13­page survey of native born and immigrant Muslims in the U.S., including 2­page
bibliography. Not about Arab Americans per se, but it provides useful background. Available
online by a title search.
Haddad, Yvonne Hazbeck, ed. The Muslims of America (Oxford University Press, 1991).
A collection of essays on Muslim organizations, population, public and personal identity,
scholars, political involvement, prisoners, education, women, U.S. foreign policy, and the views
of Christian churches. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Muslims_of_America.html?id=x0Ogoodt­8gC.
Not Quite American?: The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United
States (Baylor University Press, 2004). A reflection on Muslim and Arab identity in the United
States, the struggle to legitimate their presence in the face of exclusion based on race,
nationality, and religion, and the profound impact of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Introductory
chapter online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=m1z4GcWN9CcC&pg=PP1&dq=yvonne+hasbeck&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PK
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_lUbrxJNO64APpvYBY&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA.
Haddad, Yvonne and John Esposito. Muslims on the Americanization Path? (Oxford
University Press, 2000). Thirteen scholarly articles address questions raised about the
relationship between Muslim identity and life in America, including issues of cultural identity, the
status of women, and the African­American Muslim experience. Online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=SrV5dI0Z3koC&pg=PA19&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f
=false.
Haddad, Yvonne and Jane Smith. Muslim Communities in North America (Albany: State
University of New York, 1994). 22 articles on religion, immigrant communities, and the
sociology of Islam and Muslims. Covers Lebanese, Yemenis, Iranians, Turks, and African
Americans in 13 cities; topics include the role of women, minority status, identity maintenance.
Scattered pages are online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=K0LMZqtRpCcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Hagopian, Elaine C. and Ann Paden, eds. The Arab­Americans: Studies in Assimilation
(Wilmette, IL: Medina University Press International, 1969). Includes discussion of the absence
of political organization among earlier generations of Arab Americans and the greater
politicization among more recent generations, who see no contradiction between American
identity and serious concern for their families’ homelands.
“Minority Rights in a Nation­State: The Nixon Administration’s Campaign Against
Arab­Americans.” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1/2, (1976).
Haiek, Joseph, publisher. Arab American Almanac (Glendale, CA: News Circle Publishing
House, 6th edition, 2010). An annual publication. This 608­page book covers Arab American
history, organizations, press and media, religious institutions, leaders. Also covers Arab
civilization (history, mathematics, science, philosophy, language, music, poetry and art) and has
information on each Arab country and on Arab American organizations in each state.
http://www.arabamerica.com/news.php?id=1868. Haiek also founded the Arab American Historical
Foundation: http://www.arabamericanhistory.org/.
Hala: Hala Salaam Maksoud, A Life Dedicated to Social Progress and Human Dignity.
(Washington, DC: Foundation for Arab Policy Studies, 2003). Booklet with tributes to a
principled and beloved leader of the Arab­American community by eight scholars, poets, and
friends; also eight of her writings and speeches. Reviewed at
http://www.aljadid.com/content/hala­salaam­maksoud­marking­legacy­university­chair­youth­foundation­bo
ok­tributes.
Halabu, Hilda M. Domestic violence in the Arab American community: culturally relevant
features and intervention considerations. (University of Michigan, 2006).
Interviews with 35 counselors find that an understanding of the culturally rooted experience of
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this violence situated within the sociopolitical context of Arabs in the United States is critical in
order to provide sensitive and successful intervention.
Hammer, Juliane. Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
(Austin: Texas University Press, 2005). Research on Palestinians teens and young adults who
grew up in exile in Arab countries or the U.S. and “returned” to the West Bank and Gaza
(especially the Jerusalem­Ramallah area) after the Oslo accords. Despite the successful
transmission of national identity to this new generation, returnees faced challenges and difficulties
due to lifeways and values at odds with their new neighbors. Excellent discussion of life in exile
and the negotiated reentry into Palestinian society. Introduction partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Palestinians_Born_in_Exile.html?id=9FG9oXC16eQC.
Hanania, Ray. Arabs of Chicagoland. (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2005). A celebration
of the history and integral role of Lebanese, Palestinian, and other Arab Americans in Chicago,
and their important role in its growth. It also addresses the difficulties faced by Arab Americans
after 9/11. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=xp2OzGKLVtkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=chicagoland&hl=en&sa=X&
ei=2K_lUZmGM4mYqAGzjoD4BA&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=chicagoland&f=false.
Hassoun, Rosina J. Arab Americans in Michigan (Michigan State University Press, 2003).
Michigan hosts one of the largest and most diverse Arab American populations in the United
States. Despite their considerable presence, Arab Americans have always been a
misunderstood ethnic population in the state, even before 9/11 imposed a cloud of suspicion
over their communities. Hassoun outlines the origins, culture, religions, and values of a people
“whose influence has often exceeded their visibility” in the state. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=wky3u4UExIQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22rosina+j+hassoun%22&
hl=en&sa=X&ei=WbLlUfvkKqLAyAGL04HQCg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Hitti, Philip. The Syrians in America. Gorgias Press, 2005; originally published 1924). An
early analysis by the leading Arab­American historian of that era. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Syrians_in_America.html?id=dcCUP9KXAsEC.
Holsin, Jennifer Leila. Residential Patterns of Arab Americans: Race, Ethnicity, and
Spatial Assimilation (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009). Holsin analyzes the “segregation and
neighborhood characteristics” of Arab Americans in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and
Chicago.
Hooglund, Eric J., ed. Crossing the Waters: Arabic­Speaking Immigrants to the United
States Before 1940 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987). Essays provide an
overview of Arab immigration, Arab community studies in Birmingham, Boston, El Paso and
Maine, and biographical studies on Philip Hitti, Khalil Gibran, and Gregory Orfalea.
Taking Root: Arab­American Community Studies, Vol. II (Washington, DC:
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American­Arab Anti­Discrimination Committee, 1985). Oral history of Arab­American
communities: Allentown, Birmingham, Boston, Brooklyn, Detroit, Jacksonville, Portland, San
Francisco, Utica, Worcester, MA. Yemeni farmworkers.
Hourani, Albert H. and Nadim Shehadi, eds. The Lebanese and the World: A Century of
Emigration (London: I.B. Taurus, 1992). Essays by historians, sociologists, economists, on
Lebanese in the Americas, the Caribbean, Australia, West Africa, and the Arab world. They
examine their role and impact on host countries and their continuing relations with and influence
on Lebanon.
Howell, Sally. Inventing the American Mosque: Early Muslims and Their Institutions in Detroit,
1910­1980. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2009). Discussion of how Arab and
other Muslim communities have “imagined, invented, critiqued, and reinvented” the mosque, in
response to assimilation, exclusion, conversions, and immigration. A study of the history of
several of Detroit’s oldest mosques.
Hyndman­Rizk, Nelia. My mother's table : at home in the Maronite diaspora : a study of
emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America (Newcastle upon Tyne
: Cambridge Scholars, 2011). Study of the ways in which immigrants from the Maronite village
of Hadchit maintain a sense of identity through attachment to kinship, village, and sect. The
most important element in overcoming uprootedness is “the daily practice of care in the home”
by the matriarch.
Institute of Texan Cultures. The Syrian and Lebanese Texans (University of Texas, 1974).
Jamal, Amaney, ed. Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible
Citizens to Visible Subjects (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Eleven essays on ways in
which race and racism have impacted the Arab American experience. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Race_and_Arab_Americans_Before_and_After.html?id=Qbgw2Zwv
T8kC.
Joseph, Larry. “Tale of Two Waves: The Arab­Americans of Brooklyn.” (Brooklyn Bridge,
July 1997).
Al­Jurf. Even My Voice Is Silence: A Palestinian­American Woman's Journey "Back
Home" (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012). A Palestinian­American
Muslim woman goes in search of her father’s village in Palestine and of her own uncertain place
in her “homeland.” “Exquisite storytelling.”
Kaldas, Pauline. “Maneuvering Through the Cultural Borders of Parenting: Egypt and the U.S”
in The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach and
Serve, edited by Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George (University of Illinois Press,
1998).
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Kayal, Philip M. and Joseph M. Kayal. The Syrian­Lebanese in America: A Study in
Religion and Assimilation (Twane, 1976).
Kayyali, Randa A. The Arab Americans (Greenwood, 2005). A comprehensive overview,
addressing immigration patterns, settlement, adaptation, and assimilation, as well as family
issues, women's issues, food, media, and religious practices, questions of pan­Arab
identification, Christian and Muslim identities, generational differences, the impact of 9/11, and
the diversity of the Arab­American community. Attentive to the nuances of culture. Partly
online at http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Arab_Americans.html?id=w2rc0RI7EqYC.
“US Census Classifications and Arab Americans: Contestations and Definitions of
Identity Markers.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Published online March 21,
2013). A discussion of debates within the Arab­American community over how federal
agencies should classify Arab ethnic/racial identity ancestry.
Khater, Akram Fouad. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in
Lebanon, 1870­1920 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001). Discussion of the
immigration of Lebanese peasants to the Americas, the significant return immigration, changes in
gender roles, and their creation of a new middle class. Online at
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9d5nb66k;chunk.id=0;doc.view=print. Book
review available at http://www.h­net.org/ in the book review section.
Al­Krenawi and John R. Graham. “Culturally Sensitive Social Work with Arab Clients in
Mental Health Settings.” (National Association of Social Workers website, February 2000).
Has substantial bibliography. Online at
http://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/events/911/alkrenawi.asp. For further bibliography, see
“Culturally Competent for Arabs and Muslims” by Jacqueline Coughlan at
http://culturedmed.binghamton.edu/index.php/bibliographies­by­ethnic­group/arab. For Muslim health
and social service organizations, see the Islamic Social Services Association at
http://www.issaservices.com/ and http://www.muslimmentalhealth.com/Links/link_display.asp
Kulczycki, Andrezej and Arun Peter Lobo. “Patterns, Determinants, and Implications of
Intermarriage among Arab Americans.” Journal of Marriage and the Family. Vol. 64, No.
1 (February 2002), 202­210. In the 1990 Census, 80% of U.S.­born Arabs had non­Arab
spouses. Christians were more likely than Muslims to “out­marry.”
Labaki, George. History of the Maronites in the United States (Lebanon: Notre Dame
University of Louaize Press, 1993). A description of the origins of the Maronite Church, the
immigration to the United States, and the history of the Maronite parishes in the U.S. See also
Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, “Aspects of Maronite History in the United States.” Online at
http://www.stmaron.org/marinusa.html.
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"Living Memories: How to Do an Oral History." (Washington, DC: American­Arab
Anti­Discrimination Committee, 1985). Booklet, 16 pp.
Macke, Beth. "Melkite Catholics in the United States." Sociology of Religion. Vol. 54, No. 4
(Winter 1993). Outlines the concerns about suburbanization of church members and worries
about identity maintenance in the face of pressures from Latin Catholics, evangelicals, and
secular culture.
Majaj, Lisa Suhair. “Arab Americans and the Meaning of Race” in Amritjit Singh and Peter
Schmidt, eds., Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Literature
(University Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Reclaiming Arab American History.” Al­Jadid. Vol. 16, No. 62 (2010). A tribute to
the recently deceased scholars Michael Suleiman, the preeminent Arab American historian, and
Evelyn Shakir, who laid the foundation for Arab­American literary criticism. Online at
http://www.aljadid.com/content/reclaiming­arab­american­history.
Malek, Alia. A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold through Arab American
Lives (Free Press, 2010). An “infectiously readable” account of the lives of 11 Arab
Americans seen in relationship to historical events in the U.S. and Middle East from the 1960s
to the war with Iraq. Novelistic detail makes the telling vivid and real. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=wFPLtey8ZCIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alia+malek&hl=en&sa=X&ei
=p6rlUf7SGbao4APazIHgDA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA.
Marschner, Janice. California’s Arab Americans (Sacramento: Coleman Branch Press,
2003). A summary of historical information about Arab­American families in California from
the 19th century until today. The focus is on the stories of individual families with over 50 family
photographs. Provides a very specific picture of the endless ways in which Arab Americans
became integrated into every aspect of American society.
McCarus, Ernest, ed. The Development of Arab­American Identity (Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press, 1994). Scholarly essays on dilemmas of ethnic groups, early
immigrants, Arab Christian and Muslim communities, political involvement, issues of identity and
the Arab image, and anti­Arab racism. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=cD­eQhE1llAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ernest+mccarus&hl=en&sa=
X&ei=7KrlUfyXE6j94AP­34CICA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg.
Mehde, Beverlee T., ed. The Arabs in America, 1492­1977: A Chronology and Fact Book
(Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1978). Discusses prominent Arab Americans and
notable events, religious and social organizations. Has relevant documents.
Moses, John G. The Lebanese in America (Utica, NY: Educational Publications, revised
edition, 2001). A tribute to the courage and struggle of immigrants who uprooted themselves
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and sought a better life in the U.S. This 87­page book of anecdotes and photographs shows
their successful adaptation to their new country. Reviewed at
http://www.aljadid.com/content/john­g­moses­lebanese­america.
From Mount Lebanon to the Mohawk Valley (J. G. Moses, 1981).
Also see Moses’ article in James. S. Pula, ed., Ethnic Utica (Utica, NY: Ethnic Heritage
Studies Center, Utica College, 2005).
Naber, Nadine. “Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender.” The
Muslim World. Vol. 95, No. 4 (Oct. 2005). A study of student activists in San Francisco and
how their assertion of Muslim identity, in response to “a highly charged environment of racial
and identity politics,” affects immigrant family dynamics. Available online through a title search.
“The Rules of Forced Engagement: Race, Gender, and the Culture of Fear among Arab
Immigrants in San Francisco Post­9/11.” Cultural Dynamics. Vol. 18, No. 3 (2006). Portrays
the way that the “war on terror” is experienced in everyday life through the intersection of
anti­Arab/Muslim racism with class, gender, religion, citizenship, and nation to produce an
“internment of the psyche” in which there is a “general sense that one is always being watched
or could at any time be attacked, deported, or disappeared.”
Nabhan, Gary Paul. Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great
Deserts. (University of Arizona Press, 2008). Naban is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist,
and creative prose writer, whose Lebanese family has been emigrating to the U.S. and Mexico
for a century. This book explores his own his own multicultural roots and the deep cultural
linkages ­ historical, ecological, linguistical, and gastronomical ­ between the peoples of the
deserts of the Middle East and the American Southwest. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=eNXdeDu6h9gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22gary+paul+nabhan%22
&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zrPlUcqOM4_j4AOvhoG4BA&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCA.
Naff, Alixa. The American Lebanese Christians (Chelsea House Pub., 1996).
Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1985). Early immigrants before World War I; thoroughly
explores their experience as cross­country peddlers, their business and social ties and their
rapid assimilation and transformation into Syrian Americans. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Becoming_American.html?id=dOmitBgYtFkC.
Nagel, Caroline R. and Lynn A. Staeheli. “Citizenship, Identity, and Transnational Migration:
Arab Immigrants to the United States.” (Scholar Commons, Jan. 1, 2004). An analysis of the
political involvement of Arab immigrants and their offspring, who are involved with
Arab­American organizations in Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.
Available online at Scholar Commons by a title search.
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‘“We're Just Like the Irish”: Narratives of Assimilation, Belonging and Citizenship
Amongst Arab­American Activists.’ Citizenship Studies, Vol. 9, Issue 5 (2005), 485­498.
Examines the narratives of Arab­American political activists as they “attempt to position
[themselves] as citizens and full members of the American polity” through an American tradition
of citizenship in which “political and social assimilation as Americans does not imply the denial of
other identities.” Available online by a title search at
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy­ab&q=%22we're+just+like+the+irish%22&oq=%22we're+just+like+the
+irish%22&gs_l=serp.3...95011.100073.1.100301.27.26.0.0.0.0.193.3159.9j16.25.0....0...1c.1.19.psy­ab.2nx5EvuJ7
1Q&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=ee23687ec0008005&biw=1839&bih=982.
Nassar, Eugene Paul. Memories of East Utica (two parts) (Cambridge Book Co., 1983)
Nassar­McMillan, Sylvia, Kristine J. Ajrouch, and Julie Hakim­Larson, eds. A
Biopsychosocial Approach to Arab Americans: Perspectives on Culture, Development,
and Health, Springer Publications. Examines the interrelationship of culture, psychosocial
development, and health issues. Useful for medical, social work, and counseling professionals.
Counseling Arab Americans: Counselors’ Call for Advocacy and Social Justice
(Denver: Love Publishing, 2003).
“Counseling Arab Americans” in N.A. Vacc, S. B. DeVancey, & J. M. Brendel, eds.,
Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations (New York: Brunner­Routledge, 2003),
4th ed., pp. 117­139.
National Arab American Journalists Association. “Overview of Arab American Media in the
United States.” (July 2009). Available online by a title search.
Noor, Queen. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (New York: Hyperion,
2003). Autobiographical account by the Princeton­educated Arab­American woman who
married King Hussein of Jordan. It gives her account of family life, the King’s activities in
Middle East and world politics, and her activities to foster medical, educational, and cultural
development and village economic self­sufficiency in Jordan.
Orfalea, Gregory. Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and
Politics (University of Arizona Press, 2009). Poetic and deeply moving personal essays on his
family and people he has known in childhood and today, coming to confront the tragic deaths of
his father and sister and “what it means to be human in America today.”
Partly online at http://books.google.com/books/about/Angeleno_Days.html?id=GJsgfoTPc9wC.
The Arab Americans: A History (Westport, CT: Interlink Publishing, 2005). Warmly
written accounts of the waves of immigration, a century of Arab­American life and politics, and
the problems and opportunities after 9/11. Includes interviews with leading Arab Americans
and the story of Orfalea’s search for his own family’s roots in Syria. A substantial updating and
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expansion of Before the Flames. Reviewed at http://www.aljadid.com/content/century­immigration.
Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab­Americans (Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1988; revised edition 2005). 100 years of Arab­American history through both
analysis and anecdotes, archival research and dozens of interviews across the country. A
colorful, readable, insightful discussion. Has personal stories of Arab Americans in 20 cities,
such as Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Vicksburg, Cedar Rapids, North Dakota, Texas and California,
including the story of Orfalea's own family and his visit to his grandfather's village in Syria. Has
useful bibliography.
Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at
the Battle of the Bulge (Free Press, 1997; Touchstone, 2010). This is an “angst­ridden
memoir” in which Orfalea seeks to come to terms with his memory of his father. He tells the
gripping story of his father’s military unit and their extraordinary combat experience in which it
suffered 83% in losses. He also critiques the military bureaucracy which disbanded and forgot
about the unit. “Through its characters, narration of dramatic and deadly action, and
reconstruction of the period and its mores, this work seeks to recover a deeper moral and
cultural reality ­ the lost legacy of that generation's understanding of manhood and heroism.”
Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=NvHSQVQ95XMC&pg=PR4&dq=%22gregory+orfalea%22&hl=en&sa=
X&ei=ubTlUacwx­LgA_CmgagK&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBw.
Pulcini, Theodore. “Trends in Research on Arab Americans.” Journal of American Ethnic
History 12, no. 4 (Summer 1993). Review of the literature on the rise of Arab American ethnic
identity.
Price, Jay M., Victoria Foth Sherry, and Matthew Namee. Wichita's Lebanese Heritage
(Arcadia Publishing, 2010.) The story of early immigrants who began as peddlers in Kansas
and Oklahoma, started their own stores and companies, and established themselves in business,
professional, and civic circles. Recent immigrants have continued the entrepreneurial tradition.
Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=OjLgAPqMyFUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Victoria+Foth+Sherry
%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NLXlUfuuNIHWygGsn4DYCA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Victoria
%20Foth%20Sherry%22&f=false.
Qafisheh, Susan. The mother­daughter relationship in Arab­American families (Aliant
International University, 2002).
Qazwini, Imam Hassan. American Crescent: A Muslim Cleric on the Power of His Faith,
the Struggle Against Prejudice, and the Future of Islam and America (Random House,
2007). The author is a prominent Muslim leader in Dearborn, Michigan, who tells the personal
story of his family’s experience under Saddam Hussain in Iraq, opens up the world of Shia’
Muslim students and clerics, and offers a vision of Shia’ Islam rooted in tradition and adapted to
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life in America. He is frank about sectarian conflicts in Iraq and urges Muslim Americans to
enter fully into U.S. political life. He is critical of Islamist movements that seek to “hijack Islam”
and defends the civil liberties of Muslim and Arab Americans. Reviewed by Rashid Khalidi in
the NYT at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Khalidi­t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
Ray, Lauren. “The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Arab Americans, and Palestine
Solidarity.” Palestine Solidarity Review. An overview of the nearly forgotten era in the 1960s
and 1970s, when militant Black and Arab­American auto workers joined in wildcat strikes and
support for the Palestinian struggle. The website also has several articles on solidarity with
Palestine among Black Power advocates. http://psreview.org/content/view/18/70/.
Rice, Virginia Hill. “Water Pipe Smoking Among the Young: The Rebirth of an Old Tradition.”
Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 47, Issue 1 (2012), 141­148).
Rouchdy, Aleya, ed. The Arabic Language in America (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press,
1992). Essays on “how Arabic spoken in the U.S. is changing under the influence of English.”
Topics include linguistic borrowings, “code switching” or the conversational alternation between
the use of Arabic and English, the shift to English in generations born in the U.S., and
approaches to the study of Arabic. The analysis combines technical linguistics and social
aspects of the use of language. Several essays on online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=ARh8Z7fLe3wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Aleya+Rouchdy%22&h
l=en&sa=X&ei=r7XlUejWNqXCyAGun4HoCg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw.
Saba, Leila Boulos. The social assimilation of the Ramallah community residing in Detroit.
(Wayne State University, 1971). The author’s dissertation.
Said, Edward. Out of Place (Knopf, 1999). Eloquent memoir by the leading Palestinian
spokesperson, scholar, and public intellectual in the West. Said reexamines his life of
uprootedness and the shaping of his sense of identity in Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and the U.S.
A fascinating personal and family portrait, most significantly in the 1947­48 period. Its
publication resulted in a campaign attempting to discredit Said and the book, as a way of
discrediting the Palestinian refugee cause which he exemplifies. Winner of the 2000 New
Yorker “readers choice” book award for nonfiction. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=aMjITElwSU0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Out+of+Place:+a+memoi
r%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CLblUYLgOsKxywGC8YG4CA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Said, Najla. Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab American Family
(Riverhead Hardcover, 2013). A “warm and engaging” memoir by the daughter of Edward
Said, based on her one­woman Off­Broadway show. About coming of age in a famous
intellectual immigrant family and her struggles with ethnic and cultural identity in Manhattan.
Saliba, Najib. Emigration from Syria and the Syrian­Lebanese Community of Worcester,
MA. (Ligonier, Pennsylvania: Antakya Press, 1992).
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Samhan, Helen Hatab. “By the Numbers.” Arab American Business (October 2003).
Further analysis of the 2000 Census data.
“New Census Figures Show Continued Growth of the Arab­American Community.”
Arab American Business (July 2002). Short article about 2000 Census data on Arab
Americans.
“Politics and Exclusion: the Arab­American Experience.” Journal of Palestine
Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter, 1987).
El­Sayed, Abdulrahman and Sandro Galea. “The health of Arab­Americans living in the United
States: a systematic review of the literature.” BMC Public Health, 9:272 (2009). Reviews
research on cardiovascular disease, tobacco use, diabetes, cancer, psychological wellbeing,
women’s and children’s health, and health and illness psychology. Online at
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471­2458/9/272. For more on healthcare issues, see Aasim Padela,
Katie Gunter, and Amal Killawi, Meeting the Healthcare Needs of American Muslims:
Challenges and Strategies for Healthcare Settings (Institute for Social Policy and Understanding,
February 2011). For healthcare bibliography, see
http://libguides.methodistcollege.edu/content.php?pid=176200&sid=1483612.
Seikaly, May. “Attachment and Identity: The Palestinian Community of Detroit” in
Suleiman, Arabs in America: Building a New Future (Temple University Press, 1999).
Based on interviews in the immigrant community. Online at
http://acc.teachmideast.org/texts.php?module_id=9&reading_id=9.
Shadid, Anthony. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). A Pulitzer Prize­winning New York Times journalist tells
the story of his family in Lebanon, their immigration to the U.S., and his return and engagement
with Lebanon today, as he undertakes to restore the family home of his great­grandfather.
Highly praised for its warm and lyrical prose and its evocative recreation of the lost world of
pre­war Lebanon. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=bjczeMMMn1YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22House+of+Stone:+A+
Memoir+of+Home,+Family,+and+a+Lost+Middle+East%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lrblUYvfKdX84AOr5YDgCA
&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Shain, Yossi. “Arab Americans at a Crossroads.” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXV,
No. 3 (Spring 1996). The various political strategies of Arab American organizations for
influencing U.S. Middle East policy. See footnotes for other articles on Arab­American political
activism.
Shalabi, Luay. “The relationship between cultural identity and academic achievement of Arab
American students in reading, mathematics, and language in a suburban middle and high.” ETD
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Collection for Wayne State University. Paper AAI3037187. (Wayne State University, 2001).
Research with junior high and high school students in Michigan indicates that stronger
identification with Arab culture was correlated with higher academic achievement in reading,
mathematics, and language. Abstract at http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/dissertations/AAI3037187.
Sharabi, Hisham. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Intellectual (Interlink: 2007; originally
published in 1978). Sharabi was a distinguished Palestinian intellectual and critic of traditional
Arab society and culture. This autobiographical account of his development from a privileged
childhood in Palestine, education in Lebanon and the U.S., and personal, intellectual, and
political formation is “candid, poignant, and engrossing.” Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Embers_and_Ashes.html?id=2prl­EEscucC.
Sherman, William; Paul Whitney, and John Guerrero. Prairie Peddlers: The Syrian­Lebanese
in North Dakota (Bismark, ND: University of Mary Press, 2002). Homesteaders, peddlers,
business people, pioneers, both Muslim and Christian; success, failure, discrimination,
acceptance; 1900 to 1950. Includes first­generation reminiscences. Appendices have detailed
information of genealogical value on individuals.
Shora, Nawar. The Arab American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab­American, and
Muslim World. (Seattle: Cune Press, 2009). Jack Shaheen calls it “By far the best short guide
to Arab, Arab­American, and Muslim cultures….an invaluable resource.”
Online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=NBrrAM10x74C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22nawar+shora%22&hl=e
n&sa=X&ei=FLflUdbnB6n_4AO58oCQBQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Shunnarah, Nabella. “A Picture for Baba” in Mary C. Moran, Ordinary and Sacred as
Blood: Alabama Women Speak (Rivers Edge Publishing Co., 1999. Tells the story of the
search to learn about the author’s grandfather, who emigrated from Ramallah to Chile in the
1920s.
Smith, Ola Marie, Roger Y. W. Tang, and Paul San Miguel. “Arab American entrepreneurship
in Detroit, Michigan.” American Journal of Business, Vol. 27, No. 1 (2012), 58­78.
Examines Arab­American businesses, family and support networks, and theoretical models of
ethnic entrepreneurship.
Staub, Shalom. The Yemenis of New York City: The Folklore of Ethnicity. (Associated
University Presses, 1989). An American Jewish anthropologist explores the ways in which
Yemeni village emigrants construct an ethnic identity and social networks in the U.S. Partly
online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=HPsCHy3nsA8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Shalom+Staub%22&hl
=en&sa=X&ei=b7flUdGyDPis4AOVnoG4DA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ.
Stiffler, Matthew W. Authentic Arabs, Authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the
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Mobilization of Cultural Identity. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2010). Examines
a church in Livonia, Michigan, as “the main site for the construction and maintenance of a
specific Arab cultural identity” through religious events affirming a “Holy Land Christianity,”
celebrations of Arab cultural identity through food and music, resistance to cultural stereotypes,
and political support for the Palestinian cause. Available online through a title search.
Strum, Philippa, ed. American Arabs and Political Participation (Washington, DC:
Woodrow Wilson International Center, 2006). Ten essays dealing with the history of
Arab­American political involvement (especially in Michigan), the role of national organizations,
the impact of gender, and developments after 9/11. Online through a title search.
Suleiman, Michael. “The Arab Community in the United States: A Comparison of Lebanese
and Non­Lebanese” in The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Immigration, edited by
Albert Hourani and Nadim Shehadi (London, I. B. Tauris, 1992).
“The Arab Immigrant Experience” in Arabs in America (Temple University Press,
1999). Online at http://acc.teachmideast.org/texts.php?module_id=9&reading_id=33. Excellent
introduction.
“The Arab­American Left” in The Immigrant Left, edited by Paul Buhle and Dan
Georgakas (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996). Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=IX1awo2iK6YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22The+Immigrant+Left+in+
the+united+states%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cBPnUenuJbLC4APd1YHoCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA.
Suleiman, Michael, ed. Arabs in America: Building a New Future (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 2000) Interdisciplinary essays by 21 scholars cover community profiles, civil
rights, youth, family life, political activism, and identity issues.
Shuraydi, Muhammad A. “ Feeling at Home Away from Home: The Pioneering Role of
Al­Jazeera and Other Arab Transnational Satellite Channels in the Maintenance and Change of
Arab Diasporic Enclaves,” The Arab World Geographer, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2006).
Transnational TV connects the Arab diaspora with home countries and the Arab world, creating
a “virtual Arab world” that both promotes cultural change and serves as a “cultural anchor” that
fosters “cultural maintenance” among overseas Arabs.
Takim, Liyakat Nathani. Shi’ism in America (NYU Press, 2009). An overview of a Muslim
minority, covering its history, current community life, leadership, traditions, ethnic diversity,
younger generations, relationship with the Sunni majority, and its difficulties in establishing its
particular identity in the U.S. Reviewed at
http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/images/pdf_files/srpski/godina5_broj2/iqbal%20akhtar.pdf.
Partly online at http://books.google.com/books/about/Shi_ism_in_America.html?id=oCKZ6S8lkG4C.
Walbridge, Linda S. Without Forgetting the Imam: Lebanese Shiʻism in American
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Community (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997). An ethnology based on four years
of field work in the Lebanese Shia’ immigrant community of Dearborn, Michigan, during which
she won the trust of community members who allowed her to gain unusual access to their
private lives. She explores their religious life and struggles between tradition and adapting to life
in the U.S. Partly online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Without_Forgetting_the_Imam.html?id=bprqt2ta1WsC.
Whitaker, Elizabeth Virginia. From the Social Margins to the Center: Lebanese Families Who
Arrived in South Carolina before 1050. (M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, 2006).
Available online by a title search.
Younis, Adele L. and Philip M. Kayal, eds. The Coming of the Arabic­Speaking People to
the United States (Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies, 1995). A study of
Lebanese and Syrian immigration to the U.S. and the life and culture of the early immigrant
community. Explores why they came, the image of American in the Near East, and the role of
missionaries and other Americans in Ottoman Syria.
Zabel, Darcy. Arabs in the Americas: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Arab Diaspora
(Peter Lang Publishing, 2006). Twelve essays on the Arab experience as they arrive, adapt,
and respond to societies from Canada to Latin America. Concludes with the differences in
experiences in the post­9/11 period. Several chapters online at
http://books.google.com/books/about/Arabs_in_the_Americas.html?id=rxppXy22NbkC.
Zogby, James, ed. Taking Root, Bearing Fruit: The Arab­American Experience
(Washington, DC: American­Arab Anti­Discrimination Committee, 1984). Oral history of
Arab­American communities: North Dakota, Vicksburg, New Castle, Flint, and Providence.
Filled with anecdotes and the story of the voyage of one young immigrant at the turn of the
century.
Zogby, John. Arab America Today: A Demographic Profile of Arab Americans
(Washington, DC: Arab American Institute, 1990). 42 page booklet. Analysis of data from the
1990 Census, including settlement patterns, family and individual characteristics, education,
occupation, income, regional variations, and immigration during the 1980s.
Zonana, Joyce. Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina: An Exile’s Journey (The Feminist
Press at the City University of New York, 2008). The author, a Jewish Egyptian­American,
tells the story of her family’s displacement from Egypt in 1948, her lack of affinity with the
American Jewish community, and her struggles for a sense of home and identity in Oklahoma,
New Orleans, and New York. She meets relatives in Latin America and travels back to Egypt
and meets Jews who chose to remain. It is also about the survival of her family’s Egyptian
roots. A few pages are online at
http://books.google.com/books?id=xXNBz2Ye7LYC&pg=PA21&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q
&f=false.
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Bureau of the Census and Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Bureau of the Census. “Profiles of Selected Arab Ancestry Groups.” 1990 Census.
(Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Ethnic and Hispanic Branch). Socio­economic
data on Armenian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian
Americans. Document CPH­L­149. (Also: Document CPH­L­89. Lists ancestry and
country of origin for the population in each state.)
“We the People of Arab Ancestry in the United States.” Census 2000 Special Report. March 2005. Booklet, online at http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=66737&sid=495196,
along with other sources on Arab­American demographics.
For additional data on Arab Americans, see the Census Bureau’s American FactFinder at
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
Department of Homeland Security. “Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.” Annual collection of
data, from 2004: http://www.dhs.gov/yearbook­immigration­statistics. For previous years from
1996, see http://www.dhs.gov/archives.
The Arab American Institute serves as a Census Information Center for the Census Bureau,
through which it makes census data available to the public. For information:
http://www.aaiusa.org/pages/census­2010.
Bibliographies
(See also the bibliographies in the scholarly books and articles listed in this bibliography.)
Arab American Institute. “Selected Reference Bibliography on Arab Americans” in the Arab
American Yearbook, 2007­2008 (McLean, VA: TIYM Publishing). The Yearbook provides
information on every aspect of the Arab­American community. The 4­page bibliography begins
on page 166. Available online by a title search.
Arab Families Working Group. “Bibliography on Arab Families and Youth.” 152­page listing
includes many items on Arab Americans; many articles about families in the Arab world provide
useful background. Available online by a title search.
Ebsco Host Connection. Website with listings and abstracts of hundreds of articles and reviews
on a wide variety of Arab­American topics. Search “Arab Americans” at
http://connection.ebscohost.com/.
Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC). Website sponsored by the U.S. Department
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of Education with a listing of over 100 education­related academic articles and reports
concerning Arab Americans. Search “Arab Americans” at http://www.eric.ed.gov.
Kayal, Philip M. An Arab­American Bibliographic Guide (Association of Arab­American
University Graduates, 1985). 40 page booklet listing books, articles, periodicals, reference
works, and unpublished materials.
Sawaie, Mohammed. Arabic­speaking immigrants in the United States and Canada: a
bibliographical guide with annotation (Lexington, KY: Mazda Publishers, 1985).
Selim, George Dimitri. The Arabs in the United States : a selected list of references.
(Washington, D.C.: Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of
Congress, 1983).
Suleiman, Michael. The Arab­American Experience in the United States and Canada: A
Classified Annotated Bibliography (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 2006). The first
comprehensive attempt to identify, organize, evaluate and describe the extensive literature on the
Arab community in the U.S. and Canada. Suliman’s “magnum opus,” based on decades of
research. This is the definitive Arab­American bibliography by its preeminent historian. 618
pages. For more information:
http://pierianpress.com/index.php?section=books&content=bk_arab_americans
“Palestinian­Americans: A Preliminary Bibliography with Annotations.” Covers
materials up to 2001. Biography, community studies, immigration, culture, political attitudes and
activism, Ramallah, religion, women, health, literature, acculturation, organizations,
discrimination and harassment. 31 pages. Online by a title search.
Google Books. A search for “Arab Americans” identifies over 76,000 items.
http://www.google.com/search?q=arab+american&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1#tbm=bks&sclient
=psy­ab&q=%22arab+americans%22&oq=%22arab+americans%22&gs_l=serp.3...10391.19433.0.19816.9.7.2.
0.0.0.168.672.6j1.7.0....0...1c.1.22.psy­ab..9.0.0.qCgkYAuwCyA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.497
84469%2Cd.eWU%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.MpiVkF51mpA.O&fp=5c1b1b774f82292&biw=1839&bih=966.
Google Scholar. A search for “Arab Americans” identifies over 8000 academic articles,
books, and citations. http://scholar.google.com/. As an example of more specific searches, “Arab
Americans” plus “smoking” identifies over 1600 items.
Periodicals
Al­Hewar Magazine (Vienna, VA). A forum for Arab­American dialogue on Arab politics,
culture, religion, and civilization. Online version at http://www.alhewar.com/.
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The Arab American News (Dearborn, MI). Weekly bilingual newspaper covering
Arab­American and Arab world news. http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/
Beirut Times (Los Angeles). Weekly bilingual newspaper covering Arab­ American and Arab
world news. http://www.beiruttimes.org/enhome.php?lang=en
National Arab American Journalists’ Association. Has much information about print, broadcast
and online media. http://www.naaja­us.com/
Saudi Aramco World. (Formerly Aramco World Magazine) Bimonthly magazine published
by the Saudi Aramco oil company to promote understanding of the culture, history, and
geography of the Arab world. Searching “Arab Americans” and “Arabs in America” will
identify numerous articles. The March­April 1975/Nov.­Dec. 1976/Sept.­Oct.1986 issues
were on Arab Americans. July­August 1990 was on Arab­American poets. There is an
extensive photo archive and many materials suitable for classroom use. Indexed at
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/index/Subjects.aspx.
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. News magazine published nine times a year;
includes much coverage of Arab­American news. http://www.washington­report.org/
For a lengthy list of Arab and Muslim publications in the U.S., see http://www.NAAJA­US.com/.
Library and Museum Collections
Arab American National Museum Archives, Michael E. Suleiman Collection. The Museum
documents, preserves and presents the history, culture and contributions of Arab Americans. It
has extensive archives. The collection includes artifacts, documents, personal papers, and
photographs. The Museum also publishes books and k­12 lesson plans and other educational
materials. It is located in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the largest Arab American
community. http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/. For an overview of the archival holdings,
search “Michael E. Suleiman Collection.”
ArchiveGrid. A commercial guide to research collections available through academic
institutions: http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/s.jsp?q=arab+americans.
Center for Research Libraries: Online catalogue. Has the Library of Congress microfilm
collection of early Arab­American newspapers:
http://catalog.crl.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=arab+american+newspapers&searchscope=1.
See also: “The Arab American Press” at http://www.crl.edu/focus/article/5844 and
http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=66737&sid=495155.
Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
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American History, Washington, DC. The collection (1880 to date) includes materials gathered
by Alixa Naff, the pioneer Arab­American historian. Taped life histories of 1st and 2nd
generation Arab Americans; personal, family and organization documents; newspapers,
magazines and newsletters; articles and books; photographs, music, and artifacts. Illustrates the
history of the early Lebanese/Syrian immigrants.
Outline at
http://siris­archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&u
ri=full=3100001~!140202~!1&ri=3&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Naf
f&index=.AW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=3. On Naff and the origin of the
collection, see http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198605/the.arab.immigrants.htm and
http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/article/173­1996­october/2273­personality­alixa­naff­transmitting­
the­past­to­future­generations­.html. For an enthusiastic discussion of the collection, see Najwa
Nasr, “Here I Am, a Young Tree” at
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2009/08/20090810125839cmretrop0.1614191.html#axzz
2BqhAQe4x.
Khayrallah Program for Lebanese­American Studies, North Carolina State University. An
archive documenting the Lebanese­American community in North Carolina and the South since
the 1890s. http://nclebanese.org/home/.
Library of Congress. Ameen Fares Rihani papers, 1897­1940 at
http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms008061&_faSection=overvi
ew&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=. And the Working in Patterson Project collection, documenting
occupational culture in 1994, at
http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.afc.eadafc.af007004&_faSection=overview
&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=.
Michigan State University Arab and Arab American Collection. Artifacts, documents,
interviews, videos, resource lists. http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=66737&sid=673963.
University of Michigan. Bentley Historical Library Collection. Arab Americans, Chaldeans, and
Muslims in Michigan: http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/arab_americans/
University of Michigan–Flint. Genesee Historical Collections Center. Hani Bawardi Collection:
http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/bawardi.htm. Anthony Mansour Collection:
http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/mansour.htm.
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. Numerous holdings, including
the personal archive of historian Philip K. Hitti, the Frank Maria Papers, the James Ansara
Papers, and collections of Arab­American newspapers and periodicals.
http://ihrc.umn.edu/support/arab.php
Organizations
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Alif Institute
Atlanta, GA
Organization dedicated to promoting a better understanding of the culture and the arts of the
Arab world. For a listing of Arab­American community organizations, see:
http://www.alifinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=category&id=54%3Aarab­americans&I
temid=157. For additional links, see http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2721#id3650.
American­Arab Anti­Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Washington, DC
www.adc.org
ADC is an Arab­American civil rights organization. It was founded in 1980 by former Senator
James Abourezk to defend the rights of Americans of Arab descent, eliminate cultural
stereotyping, and promote the Arab cultural heritage. There are numerous resources on its
website.
American Educational Trust (AET)
Washington, DC
http://www.middleeastbooks.com/
AET’s book service often has materials pertaining to Arab Americans, as well to the Arab
world.
Arab American Comedy Festival
Gotham Comedy Club
New York City
http://www.arabcomedy.com/
A showcase for actors, comics, playwrights and filmmakers. For some samples, see
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arab+american+comedy+festival&oq=arab+american+come
dy+festival&gs_l=youtube.3..0l2j0i5.1377.7858.0.9578.29.21.0.1.1.0.481.2050.0j12j4­1.13.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtu
be.BuucOUOOWRM.
Arab American Institute (AAI)
Washington, DC
www.aaiusa.org
AAI has excellent information on Arab Americans on its website, especially on Census data and
demographic materials.
Arab American National Museum
Dearborn, MI
http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/ The
Museum “documents, preserves and presents the history, culture and contributions of Arab
Americans” through art, artifacts, documents, personal papers, photographs, exhibits, and
cultural programs that reflect the Arab American experience. It also provides k­12 educational
materials, a research archive, and online collections, such as “Arab Americans in the Social
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Media.”
Arab American Studies Association
http://www.arabamericanstudies.org/
“A non­profit, nonpolitical organization of scholars
and other persons interested in the study of Arab American history, ethnicity, culture, literature,
art, music, politics, religion, and other aspects of Arab American experience.”
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)
Cultural Arts Department
Dearborn, MI
www.accesscommunity.org
A community­based Arab American social service organization.
Arabs in America
http://arabsinamerica.unc.edu/
A website with information on every aspect of Arab­American life.
Interlink Publishing
Northampton, MA
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/
Specializes in world travel, literature, history and politics, arts, music, dance, cooking, and
children’s books.
Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
New York City
http://memeac.gc.cuny.edu/
An academic study center, whose focus includes Arab­, Iranian­, Armenian­, Turkish­, and
other Americans of Middle Eastern origin.
National Network for Arab American Communities
http://nnaac.org/
The network includes about two dozen independent local organizations in 11 states and the
District of Columbia. It is coordinated by ACCESS in Dearborn.
Radio Tahrir
New York City
http://radiotahrir.org/
Hosted by Barbara Nimri
Aziz, Tahrir (“Liberation”) serves as “a free voice for Arab peoples in the USA and abroad,”
covering Arab­American, Arab, Muslim and Middle East issues and culture. There are weekly
broadcasts (in English) over 99.5fm, a member of WBAI radio station. It has podcasts on its
website and livestreams on www.wbai.org. Weekly programs are available for downloading free
at any time.
Arab American Studies Program
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University of Michigan­Dearborn
http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/caas/.
US4Arabs
http://www.us4arabs.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Website with much information on many aspects of the Arab­American community, a business
directory, and numerous news items on current events, business, culture and the arts.
Religious Communities and Organizations
American Druze Society
http://www.druze.com/
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
Englewood, NJ
http://www.antiochian.org/
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Washington, DC
http://www.cair.com/about­us/vision­mission­core­principles.html
An American Muslim civil rights organization.
Eparchy of Newton. Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Newton, MA
https://melkite.org/
Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation
Bethesda, MD
http://www.hcef.org/
Organization dedicated to the support of indigenous Christians in the Holy Land, who are faced
with social, economic, and political threats.
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Plainfield, IN
http://www.isna.net/index.html
An association of organizations and individuals promoting the betterment of Islam and society at
large.
Muslim health and social service organizations
http://www.muslimmentalhealth.com/Links/link_display.asp
Muslim Public Affairs Council
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Los Angeles/Washington, DC
http://www.mpac.org/
A public affairs and advocacy organization.
National Apostolate of Maronites (NAM)
http://www.namnews.org/
North America Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese
Cedar Grove, NJ ]
www.nacopts.org/
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