Celebrating Arab American Heritage Month
By Coll Rowe | March 8 2023 | Arab American
Being Young and Arab in America
978-0-14-311541-0
An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim-Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.
$18.00 US
Jul 28, 2009
Paperback
336 Pages
Penguin Books
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Ethnic Americans
- History > U.S. History > U.S. Immigration History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Political Science > Comparative Politics > Race and Politics
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Social Stratification
- Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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A Graphic Memoir
978-1-9848-6029-3
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country—from the award-winning author of I Was Their American Dream.
$19.99 US
Sep 20, 2022
Paperback
224 Pages
Ten Speed Graphic
A Memoir
978-1-948226-58-5
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review).
$26.00 US
Feb 02, 2021
Hardcover
240 Pages
Catapult
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- English > Literature > Women and Literature
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Women in America
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Literature
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Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
978-1-59463-275-4
A frank and entertaining memoir—from the daughter of Edward Said—now in paperback.
$24.00 US
Sep 02, 2014
Paperback
272 Pages
Riverhead Books
A novel
978-1-9848-9924-8
From the widely acclaimed, author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.
$18.00 US
Jun 07, 2022
Paperback
256 Pages
Vintage
- English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Commonwealth Nations > Canadian
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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A Graphic Memoir
978-0-525-57511-5
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun, author and illustrator of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and New York Times bestselling illustrator of Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda
$16.99 US
Apr 30, 2019
Paperback
160 Pages
Clarkson Potter
- English > Comparative Literature > Graphic Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Asian American Memoir
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies
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A Novel
978-0-525-43603-4
National Book Award Finalist
$17.00 US
Mar 17, 2020
Paperback
320 Pages
Vintage
A Novel
978-1-64622-059-5
A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she tries to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine)
$16.95 US
Jun 08, 2021
Paperback
272 Pages
Catapult
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Israeli
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Palestinian
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- English > Literature > American Literature – American: Novel
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Middle East Studies
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A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
978-0-399-59251-5
This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.
$18.00 US
Sep 04, 2018
Paperback
304 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
A Novel
978-0-14-311626-4
From America to the Middle East and back again— the sparkling story of one girl’s childhood, by an exciting new voice in literary fiction
$22.00 US
Aug 25, 2009
Paperback
304 Pages
Penguin Books
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Egyptian
- English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Palestinian
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
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A Novel
978-0-399-18118-4
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Award, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of The Oracle of Stamboul, following a young man's captivating journey from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.
$17.00 US
May 19, 2020
Paperback
288 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Poems
978-0-593-22948-4
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children
$17.00 US
Jul 12, 2022
Paperback
144 Pages
One World
- English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Poetry
- English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- English > Literature > American Literature – African American
- English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Literature
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A Novel
978-0-307-45363-1
A magical debut that asks, which stories would you tell if you only had nine days left in which to tell them?
$21.00 US
Jul 13, 2010
Paperback
384 Pages
Crown
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