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Building 46 / by Hayoun, Massoud,author.(CARDINAL)805023;

"Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish Arab university student from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to pursue a gay Hollywood romance and other feelings of kinship that are unusual in hyper-capitalist spaces like the United States. But when he arrives in Beijing, Sam finds himself flung into a transformational existential crisis. Shadowy characters ask him to interrogate not just the ever-changing world city around him and its governing ideology of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, but a wild and disturbing murder mystery nestled in the bowels of his host university's most curious behemoth of a building"--

Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Ghost stories.; Novels.; Mizrahim; Americans; Identity (Psychology); College students; Dormitories; Closeted gay people;

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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;

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The Israelis : ordinary people in an extraordinary land / by Rosenthal, Donna,1950-(CARDINAL)636754;

Includes bibliographical references (page 453.463) and index.Introduction: Colliding worlds -- I. Becoming Israeli. One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods ; Dating and mating Israeli-style ; A people's army ; Swords into stock shares -- II. One nation, many tribes. The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" ; The Mizrahim: the other Israelis ; The Russians: the new exodus ; Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the Promised Land -- III. Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews. The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish ; The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! ; The non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers -- IV. Schizophrenia: non-Jews in a Jewish state. The Muslims: Abraham's other children ; The Bedouin: tribes, tents and satellite dishes ; The Druze: between modernity and tradition ; The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V. The sexual revolution. Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style ; Oy! Gay? ; Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue: Shalom/Salam.Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied, and they have been brought together here in one of the most original books about Israel in decades. From battlefields to bedrooms to boardrooms, discover the colliding worlds in which an astounding mix of 7.2 million devoutly traditional and radically modern people live. You'll meet Arab Jews who fled Islamic countries, dreadlock-wearing Ethiopian immigrants who sing reggae in Hebrew, Christians in Nazareth who publish an Arabic-style Cosmo, young Israeli Muslims who know more about Judaism than most Jews of the Diaspora, ultra-Orthodox Jews on "modesty patrols," and more. Interweaving hundreds of personal stories with intriguing new research, The Israelis is lively, irreverent, and always fascinating.--From publisher description.

Subjects: National characteristics, Israeli.; Orthodox Judaism;

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Perilous power : the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy : dialogues on terror, democracy, war, and justice / by Chomsky, Noam.(CARDINAL)145847; Achcar, Gilbert.(CARDINAL)537829; Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm,1948-(CARDINAL)516640;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Terrorism and conspiracies -- Defining terrorism -- The terrorist threat -- Responding to terrorism -- 9/11 conspiracies -- Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait -- Fundamentalism and democracy -- Fundamentalism -- The Saudi Kingdom -- Democracy in the Middle East -- Fundamentalism and democracy -- Democracy since the Iraq invasion -- Sources of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East -- Oil -- Israel, the Israel lobby, and U.S. policy -- Israel and U.S. interests -- Wars in the "greater Middle East" -- Afghanistan -- Responding to 9/11 -- Afghanistan today -- The United States and Iraq, 2003 -- Other major powers and Iraq -- The current situation in Iraq -- The Iraqi insurgency -- U.S. policy in Iraq today -- What should the antiwar movement be calling for? -- Will withdrawal lead to civil war? -- The Kurds in Iraq -- The Kurds in Turkey -- Secession, self-determination, and justice -- Syria ; Iran -- The Israel-Palestine conflict -- The legitimacy of Israel -- Palestinian say in any settlement -- Going from a settlement to lasting peace -- Palestinians within Israel -- Mizrahim -- The Palestinian refugees -- Efforts to achieve peace -- The Palestinian view of a settlement -- Zionism and the Palestinians -- Israeli politics -- Palestinian politics -- How can we support justice in Israel/Palestine? -- Boycotts, divestment, and other tactics -- Anti-semitism -- Anti-semitism in Western Europe -- Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia -- Epilogue: Gilbert Achcar -- The situation in Iraq ; Hamas in power ; The Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon conflict ; The Israel lobby ; The United States and Iran ; Hezbollah ; Confrontation with Hamas and Hezbollah -- Postcript: two more years of crisis -- Gilbert Achcar: -- The Iraq "surge" -- Lebanon and Israel -- Palestinian developments -- Noam Chomsky: -- The U.S. elections and Iraq -- Iran -- Israel-Patestine and the United States.

Subjects: Democracy; Insurgency; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Terrorism;

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