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
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- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Ethnic Americans
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > U.S. Immigration History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Political Science > Comparative Politics > Race and Politics
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Social Stratification
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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
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- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > Women and Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Women in America
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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.
$17.00 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.
$16.00 US
Jun 07, 2022
Paperback
256 Pages
Vintage
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Commonwealth Nations > Canadian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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
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- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
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- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
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- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Israeli
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Palestinian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – American: Novel
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Specialized Courses
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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
$17.00 US
Aug 25, 2009
Paperback
304 Pages
Penguin Books
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Egyptian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Palestinian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Jewish American Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Middle Eastern and North African > Egyptian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
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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
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – African American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > 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?
$15.00 US
Jul 13, 2010
Paperback
384 Pages
Crown