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Arab American voices / by Hall, Loretta.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The first wave of Arab immigrants: 1878-1924 -- The second wave: Palestinian immigrants: 1948-1967 -- The third wave: Arab immigration from other lands: 1967 to the present -- Arab American, civil rights, and prejudice -- Born in America -- Women in Arab American communities -- Religion in Arab American communities.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.
Subjects: Biographies.; Arab Americans; Arab Americans; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Arab Americans; Arab Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Arab American reference library : cumulative index / by Nagel, Carol DeKane.(CARDINAL)420990;
Subjects: Indexes.; Arab American biography; Arab American encyclopedia; Arab American voices; Arab Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The face of God / by Myers, Bill,1953-(CARDINAL)370179;
Two men of opposite faiths--a Christian pastor and an Islamic terrorist--are pitted against each other in a race to find the stones of the High Priest's Breastplate, a mysterious Old Testament artifact that some believe enable the owner to hear the audible voice of God.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Clergy; Americans; Terrorism;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Veiled voices [videorecording] / by Bauer, Karen,1973-screenwriter,producer.; Hassaine, Sarah,narrator.; Maher, Brigid,producer,director,cinematographer,film editor.; Oehlers, Paul A.,musician.; American University (Washington, D.C.).School of Communication,producer.; Tiny Leaps Productions (Firm),producer.; Typecast Films (Firm),distributor.;
Director of photography, editor, Brigid Maher ; music, Paul Oehlers.Narrator, Sarah Hassaine."Women across the Middle East are trying to reclaim their role as leaders in Islam. Veiled voices goes in-depth into the world of three Muslim women religious leaders, who say women were always meant to be powerful within the religion. Filmed over the course of two years in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt"--Container.Not rated.DVD.
Subjects: Foreign films.; Documentary films.; Muslim women; Muslim women; Muslim women; Muslims; Women in Islam; Women in Islam; Women in Islam; Women religious leaders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Deluge / by Chatti, Leila,1990-author.;
"In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur'an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection's themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. Deluge investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti's remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti's journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith"--
Subjects: Poetry.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Love is an ex-country : a memoir / by Jarrar, Randa,author.;
"Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "viscerally elegant" and "intimately edgy" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America. Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect." As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents' in Connecticut. Coloring this road trip are journeys abroad and recollections of a life lived with daring. Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival--domestic assault as a child, and later, as a wife; threats and doxxing after her viral tweet about Barbara Bush--Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body. On the way, she schools a rest-stop racist, destroys Confederate flags in the desert, and visits the Chicago neighborhood where her immigrant parents first lived. Hailed as "one of the finest writers of her generation" (Laila Lalami), Jarrar delivers a euphoric and critical, funny and profound memoir that will speak to anyone who has felt erased, asserting: I am here. I am joyful"--provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Travel writing.; Jarrar, Randa.; Jarrar, Randa; Jarrar, Randa; Women authors, American; Authors, American; Palestinian Arabs; Women, Palestinian Arab; Sexual minorities; Arab American sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Dearborn : stories / by Zeineddine, Ghassan,author.(CARDINAL)872502;
"Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions heighten within a close-knit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in Speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have other plans. By turns wildly funny, incisive, and deeply moving, Dearborn introduces readers to an arresting new voice in contemporary fiction and invites us all to consider what it means to be part of a place and community, and how it is that we help one another survive"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Short stories.; Arab Americans; Identity (Psychology); Conflict of generations; Muslims; Immigrants;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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When we were Arabs : a Jewish family's forgotten history / by Hayoun, Massoud,author.(CARDINAL)805023;
Includes bibliographical references.Origins -- The nations -- The rupture -- Exile -- Darkness -- Memory.The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award-winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle.Arab American Book Awards, 2020 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award
Subjects: Biography.; Biography; Hayoun, Massoud; Cultural fusion; Jews; Mizrahim; North Africans; Double appartenance (Sciences sociales); Juifs orientaux; Juifs; Maghrébins;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A woman is no man [sound recording] : a novel / by Rum, Etaf,author.(CARDINAL)783811; Delawari, Ariana,1980-narrator.(CARDINAL)787576; Salem, Dahlia,narrator.; Nezami, Susan,narrator.;
Performed by Ariana Delawari, Susan Nezami and Dahlia Salem.Three generations of Palestinian American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate with women from all backgrounds, giving voice to the silenced and agency to the oppressed.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Palestinian Americans; Children of immigrants; Women;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The voice of the Master / by Gibran, Kahlil,1883-1931,author.(CARDINAL)145300; Ferris, Anthony R.,translator.; Citadel Press,publisher.;
"Kahlil Gibran, known in Arabic as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa'd Jubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. His mother supported the family as a seamstress and by peddling linens. At the age of 15, Gibran was sent by his mother to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend a Maronite school. He returned to Boston in 1902. In that year and the one that followed, Gibran's sister, Sultana, half-brother, Bhutros, and mother died of tuberculosis and cancer, respectively. His remaining living sister, Marianna, supported herself and Gibran as a dressmaker. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings, which were championed by the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day. Gibran modeled for Day, who was known for his photographs of boys and young men. It was through Day that Gibran's artwork attracted the attention of a woman nine years his senior named Mary Haskell, who ran an all-girls school. Haskell became Gibran's lifelong patron, paying for him to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908. There, Gibran met the sculptor August Rodin, who reportedly once called him "the William Blake of the twentieth century." Gibran's hundreds of drawings and paintings remain highly regarded. Haskell also enabled Gibran's move to New York City in 1911, where he settled in a one-room apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village. At a lunch in the Village, Gibran met Alfred Knopf, who would become his publisher. In 1918, Gibran's book of poems and parables The Madman was published. In 1923, Knopf published what would become Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Though not met with critical praise or early success--the book was never reviewed by the New York Times, for example, and sold only twelve hundred copies in its first year--the book became a phenomenon. The Prophet has now sold more than ten million copies, making Gibran one of the best-selling poets in the world. Three years later, Gibran published Sand and Foam (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of poems and aphorisms. The Biblically inspired The Prophet was especially popular in the 1960s. About this, the translator and Middle East historian Juan Cole said, "Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran. He offered a dogma-free universal spiritualism as opposed to orthodox religion, and his vision of the spiritual was not moralistic. In fact, he urged people to be non-judgmental." Gibran was active in a New York-based Arab American literary group called the Pen League, a subset of the Mahjar movement, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life he would publish nine books in Arabic and eight in English, which ruminate on love, longing, and death, and explore religious themes. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 10, 1931, in New York City." -- Biography from:
Subjects: Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931; Spiritual healing.; Grief in literature.; Lebanese American authors.; Arab American authors.; Authors, Arab; Authors, Arab; Authors, Lebanese; Lebanese literature.; Arabic literature;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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