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Arab America and the Arab America Foundation launched National Arab American Heritage Month in 2017 as a way to celebrate the lives and achievements of Arab Americans. Since then, "cultural institutions, school districts, municipalities, state legislatures, public servants, and non-profit organizations issue proclamations and engage in special events" annually to mark this celebration. President Joe Biden and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer are among the leaders that issued proclamations to mark April 2023 with this special designation.
This encyclopaedia presents the early history Arab people and the Arab immigration to the United States.
"This volume focuses on the literature and culture of Arabs living in the United States who have gained new prominence after 9/11. For a proper assessment of their situation it seeks to provide basic information on the history and transculturation of immigrants from different parts of the Arab world."
Gregory Orfalea's new and definitive work spans a century and a half of the life of Arab immigrants and their descendants in the United States. In The Arab Americans: A History, Orfalea has marshaled over 150 interviews and 25 years of research...
This visual journey 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 institutions, thus contributing to Detroit's efforts in regaining its position as a world class city.
In Arab Americans in Michigan Rosina J. Hassoun outlines the origins, culture, religions, and values of a people whose influence has often exceeded their visibility in the state.
Twenty primary source documents from speeches, memoirs, poems, novels, and autobiographies present the words of Americans with roots in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and other Arab nations.
Retells a number of significant events in U.S. history, through the eyes of the nation's large and growing community of Arab Americans.
This groundbreaking collection creates a space in which Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminsts speak out about issues of history, culture and identity.
A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity.
"A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants."
The views and experiences of 124 Palestinians who live in the United States give remarkable insights and perspective on the profound challenge now facing us in the Middle East.
