In honor of Arab American Heritage Month in April, we are sharing books by Arab and Arab American authors that share their culture, history, and personal lives.
Books for Arab American Heritage Month
By Coll Rowe | March 1 2024 | LiteratureSociologyArab American
- 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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Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > Arab American Non-Fiction
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Science
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Technology
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Work
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Healthcare Professions > Nursing > Women's Health
- Health and Kinesiology > Health > Women's Health
- Physics and Astronomy > Astronomy > Astrophysics
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Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. 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).
- 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
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Women in America
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Literature
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Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
- 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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