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Arab Americans: A Quest For Their History And Culture
Arab Americans A Quest For Their History And Culture Author:Greg Orfalea, Gregory Orfalea This powerful, personal account of more than 100 years of the history of Arab Americans combines the research of a historian with the vivid storytelling of a poet and novelist. Greg Orfalea's search for insight into his family's past took him on a ten-year odyssey from Los Angeles to his family's ancestral village in Syria to nearly thirty Arab-... more »American communities across the United States. His archival research and interviews with more than a hundred Arab Americans-from taxi drivers and shopkeepers to White House correspondent Helen Thomas-culminated in the 1988 publication of Before the Flames. This present volume is an updating and complete revisiting of that seminal project, for much, indeed, has happened to Arab Americans since that time. Orfalea here extends his interviews to the important Arab-American communities in Detroit and Washington, and revisits the history of Arab-American political organizations excluded from his earlier book when it was deemed "too political." Arab Americans is a moving depiction of life on the inside of a community that has found itself increasingly in the spotlight, but none the better understood for it.« less