Arab American Women

Author : Michael W. Suleiman,Suad Joseph,Louise Cainkar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815655138

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Arab American Women by Michael W. Suleiman,Suad Joseph,Louise Cainkar Pdf

Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.

Author : Evelyn Shakir
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:49015002688720

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Bint Arab by Evelyn Shakir Pdf

Shakir tells the long neglected story of the bint arab--the Arab woman--in the United States. Weaving together a survey from the late 19th century to the present, she focuses on each generation's negotiation between traditional Arab values and the social and sexual liberties permitted women in the West. Interspersing oral histories, Shakir challenges stereotypes and creates a unique and fascinating portrait of an often misunderstood group.

Author : Jen'nan Ghazal Read
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002348105

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Culture, Class, and Work Among Arab-American Women by Jen'nan Ghazal Read Pdf

Drawing on US Census data and a national poll of ethnic groups to situate Arab-American women in a broader immigrant context, Read (sociology, U. of California-Irvine) expands the demographic profile and understanding of a group often viewed stereotypically. In this study of cultural and class influences on workforce participation as correlates of

Author : Rabab Abdulhadi,Evelyn Alsultany,Nadine Naber
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815651239

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Arab and Arab American Feminisms by Rabab Abdulhadi,Evelyn Alsultany,Nadine Naber Pdf

In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles among Arab communities. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolonial and antiracist struggles; in debates over spirituality and the divine; within radical, feminist, and queer spaces; in academia and on the street; and among each other. Contributors explore themes as diverse as the intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. This book asks how members of diasporic communities navigate their sense of belonging when the country in which they live wages wars in the lands of their ancestors. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969570

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Contemporary Arab American Women Writers: Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nadine Christine Naber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814758878

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Arab America by Nadine Christine Naber Pdf

Saudi Arabia in the Balance brings together today’s leading scholars in the field to investigate the domestic, regional, and international affairs of a Kingdom whose policies have so far eluded the outside world. With the passing of King Fahd and the installation of King Abdullah, a contemporary understanding of Saudi Arabia is essential as the Kingdom enters a new era of leadership and particularly when many Saudis themselves are increasingly debating, and actively shaping, the future direction of domestic and foreign affairs. Each of the essays, framed in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, offers a systematic perspective into the country’s political and economic realities as well as the tension between its regional and global roles. Important topics covered include U.S. and Saudi relations; Saudi oil policy; the Islamist threat to the monarchy regime; educational opportunities; the domestic rise of liberal opposition; economic reform; the role of the royal family; and the country's foreign relations in a changing international world. Contributors: Paul Aarts, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Rachel Bronson, Iris Glosemeyer, Steffen Hertog, Yossi Kostiner, Stéphane Lacroix, Giacomo Luciani, Monica Malik, Roel Meijer, Tim Niblock, Gerd Nonneman, Michaela Prokop, Abdulaziz Sager, Guido Steinberg

Author : Somaya Sami Sabry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857719744

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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance by Somaya Sami Sabry Pdf

The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.

Author : Susan M. Darraj
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313085260

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Scheherazade's Legacy by Susan M. Darraj Pdf

In a time when it seems that the gap of understanding between the West and the Middle East continues to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge between the two cultures. Collected here are the voices of those who define the genre of Arab Anglophone writing—that literature that describes the cultural experiences of those with Arab identities living, and often writing, in the West. Contributions from such writers as Naomi Shihab Nye, Diana Abu-Jaber, Suheir Hammad, Etal Adnan, Elmaz Abinader, and others, explore the complexities of writing in and for a culture not entirely their own. The essays here, complemented by selections, mostly original, of each author's work, promises to be a cornerstone in the study of writing by women writers of Arab descent who find themselves between two cultures, two worlds that are often at odds. With a foreword by Barbara Nimri Aziz, journalist, and founder of RAWI (Radius of Arab-American Writers), this collection is one of the first books to assemble the voices of women writers of Arab descent on the subject of writing itself. Contributors consider the difficulties, obstacles, joys, failures and successes of writing from an Arab perspective but largely for American audiences. They consider aspects of identity, family, politics, memory, and other crucial cultural issues that impact them personally and professionally as writers. In creative and thoughtful prose, these important women writers shed new light on what it means to be a writer in a world not fully your own.

Author : Joanna Kadi
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0896084892

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Food for Our Grandmothers by Joanna Kadi Pdf

Thoughtful and critical, this memorable collection of essays, poems, and recipes by over forty Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists honors the courage and spirit of Arab women -- past, present, and future. Book jacket.

Author : Louise Cainkar,Pauline Homsi Vinson,Amira Jarmakani
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815655220

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Sajjilu Arab American by Louise Cainkar,Pauline Homsi Vinson,Amira Jarmakani Pdf

Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this multidisciplinary reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection simultaneously registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field, including diaspora, migration, empire, race and racialization, securitization, and global South solidarity. The collection will be essential reading for scholars in Arab/SWANA American studies, Asian American studies, and race, ethnicity, and Indigenous studies, now and well into the future. Contributors include: Evelyn Alsultany, Carol W. N. Fadda, Hisham D. Aidi, Nadine Naber, Therí Pickens, Steven Salaita, Ella Shohat and Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.

Author : Elizabeth Boosahda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292783133

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Arab-American Faces and Voices by Elizabeth Boosahda Pdf

As Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back at more than one hundred years of the Arab-American community is especially timely. In this book, Elizabeth Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants. Boosahda focuses on the Arab-American community in Worcester, Massachusetts, a major northeastern center for Arab immigration, and Worcester's links to and similarities with Arab-American communities throughout North and South America. Using the voices of Arab immigrants and their families, she explores their entire experience, from emigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day lives of their descendants. This rich documentation sheds light on many aspects of Arab-American life, including the Arab entrepreneurial motivation and success, family life, education, religious and community organizations, and the role of women in initiating immigration and the economic success they achieved.

Author : Somaya Sami Sabry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857731623

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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance by Somaya Sami Sabry Pdf

The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.

Author : Nadine Naber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814758861

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Arab America by Nadine Naber Pdf

Tells the stories of second generation Arab American young adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of whom are political activists engaged in two culturalist movements that draw on the conditions of diaspora, a Muslim global justice and a Leftist Arab movement. Writing from a transnational feminist perspective, Naber reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States, and explores the apparently intra-communal cultural concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality as the battleground on which Arab American young adults and the looming world of America all wrangle

Author : Amaney Jamal,Nadine Naber
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815631774

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Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 by Amaney Jamal,Nadine Naber Pdf

Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of U.S. racial and ethnic studies. The articles collected here highlight emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and experiences and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the United States? In what ways have the axes of nation, religion, class, and gender intersected with Arab American racial formations? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses that have simply added on the category “Arab-American” to the landscape of U.S. racial and ethnic studies after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than as a beginning, in Arab Americans’

Author : Evelyn Shakir
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623710422

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Teaching Arabs, Writing Self by Evelyn Shakir Pdf

Evelyn Shakir’s witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming she felt in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, where she taught American literature to university students. She effortlessly combines personal anecdote with cultural, political, and historical background, and is incapable of stereotyped thinking: one of the book’s many pleasures is the diversity she finds among the people she encounters in the Middle East, including not only students, but cab drivers, storekeepers, and the guys who make the spinach pies at the bakery down the street from her apartment. As Shakir explores her own identity, she leads the reader to an appreciation of the richness and complexity of being Arab American (or any mixed heritage) in an increasingly small world.