"Alasry is deeply unsettled by the 9/11 attacks. Sensing that “her people” are now
political enemies as well as cultural aliens, she must feel her way through an
American society she is part of, but which her Yemeni parents consider hostile,
inaccessible to them, and morally suspect. The tenets of Islam (and avid
consumption of American movies) are the toolkit Alasry uses to construct
pathways between her family, school, and the lar ..."
"Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. The book goes behind the bulletproof glass in Iraqi Cha ..."
"Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Detroit's large and nationally prominent Arab and Muslim communities have faced heightened prejudice, government surveillance, and political scapegoating, yet they have also enjoyed unexpected gains in economic, political, and cultural influence. Museums, festivals, and cultural events flourish alongside the construction of new mosques and churches, and more Arabs are being elected and ..."
"Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. The book goes behind the bulletproof glass in Iraqi Cha ..."
"... Yasmin Mohamed Word Man: A Quest for Self-Discovery Through Shakespeare, 2Pac, and the Holy Qur'an Yousef Alqamoussi ... Yasmine Rukia On the Margins: Queer, Arab, American Mai Jakubowski Not Arab Enough Jeff Karoub A Conversation with ..."
Arab Detroit From Margin to Mainstream by NabeelAbraham 630 Pages, Published 2000 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3978-7, ISBN: 0-8143-3978-6
"Whereas musical tastes in the Arab World are eclectic and slanted noticeably
toward North America and Europe, the musical scene in Detroit is heavily
invested in its Arabness, in its connections to the homeland. Market forces are
combining effectively with nostalgia and ethnicity to produce audiences and
performers who define themselves as Arab American. William and Yvonne
Lockwood examine the evolution of "Arabic food" in Detroit, ..."