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Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African-American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection both registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field.

Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African-American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection both registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field.

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.

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.

In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted.

Presents a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.

Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States. That alliance is once again exerting a powerful influence on American society. In Breaking Broken English, Hartman explores the historical and current manifestations of this relationship through language and literature.