Search Results for Arab American studies

... as “an educational, cultural organization whose purpose is the dissemination of information,” the AAUG produced materials “expressive of the Arab point of view.” Many of the publications of the AAUG are considered to be foundational texts in Arab American studies. While much has been written about Said’s oeuvre...

... States. The article aims both to engage scholars studying Arab diasporas for points of comparisons and to problematize the homogenous use of terms such as Arab in mainstream Mexican and American discourses. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... University Press 2008 Voices of Protest: Arab Nationalism and the Palestinian Revolution at the American University of Beirut Betty S. Anderson...

... the alleged visit of Osama bin Laden. Arabs crossed ethnic and national boundaries in order to collaborate with South American media and state powers against the U.S. war on terror. At the same time U.S. counterterrorism traversed the continent, Brazilians and Paraguayans of Arab origins mobilized across...

..., one of the small- cesses.6 However, even in terms of sheer numbers, est Arab countries (17 percent; of which 12 percent the total number of print periodicals in the Arab were published at the American University of Bei- world that are classified as scholarly or academic rut), Jordan (14 percent), UAE...

...   overlordship of the Arab provinces and imag- In its concern with the Arab Middle East’s place ining the shape an independent Arab nation in Great Power politics and with the role of Studies of                                 might take. The Lebanese American writer...

... was inducted into the doctrine of Arab nationalism. Between 1944 and 1947, he studied at the American University of Beirut. By the time he returned to the United States to study law at George Washington University in 1948—the same year, as he notes in his memoirs, of the Nakba—Maksoud was already a firm...

... Anton Escher’s contribution to the work- shop “Comparing Arab Diasporas” published as “The Arab American Way: The Success Story of an Ameri- can Family from a Syrian Village in Global Diaspora,” American Studies Journal 52 (2008), asjournal.zusas. uni-­halle.de/152.html. 1990s...

... by the Americans tensions underlying the ambiguous insertion in the Middle East.12 of Arabs in Brazilian society as whites who are, In this sense, Muslim identities in Brazil nonetheless, “marked” by cultural differences. inherited the ambiguous position...

... languages such as English and French, dedi- American and committed Palestinian — was cated to proper literal meaning, would come deeply disturbed by and very concerned about last. Furthermore, Arabic...

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... preferred to avoid. Finally, the in- into English by the American writer Paul Bowles several clusion of Arabic texts by editors whose own years earlier. 29 intellectual formation was conducted predominantly in An early model of literary bilingualism in the arena of French...

... 15 Based on the same militaristic representation as rather than dark-skinned Arabs.” American-made shooters, Special Force is inspired Special Force can certainly be seen as part by and represents actual Hezbollah missions of Hezbollah’s larger media enterprise, what has...

...- The predicted wide-ranging collapse of the tour- less, forty per cent fewer American tourists, twenty- ism industry in the Arab countries after 9/11 did not five per cent fewer Italians, nineteen per cent fewer British, and seventeen per cent fewer Germans vis...

...Louise Cainkar Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review LOUISE CAINKAR U. S. government “anti-terrorism” policies and nounced its intention to interview some 5,000 indi...

... subjectivity rearticulates Arab cultural identity in new con- and communality. His own family’s banishment texts: Shiite/Jewish, Swiss Iraqi/Israeli Iraqi/ from its country of origin has produced a work American Israeli Iraqi, Arabic text/Hebrew through which he, the son, envisions a new ap- text...

... . oteAeiason Americans the to happened what about some schadenfreude not for is room there heart whose in and sophisticated, cultured, objective, find how to matter no days Arab, these an hard be ex- would also it I its that point, plained in my moment emphasize To the form. of purest politics of hypocrisy...

... into the emergent, amorphous category of “Arab and Muslim.” While it is true that the racialization of Iranians, Arabs, and Muslims is an overlapping process that similarly affects all three communities, an analysis of the law reveals that the racialization of Iranians has a distinct lineage in American foreign...

... precisely to “decenter modernism” 4 and expands the latter field of inquiry by bringing into play the design and visual economy of modern art books. In her recent Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut , Hala Auji centers her argument on how...

... Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt . London : I. B. Tauris , 2005 . Abu-Lughod Lila . “Dialects of Women's Empowerment: The International Circuitry of the Arab Human Development Report 2005.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 , no. 1 ( 2009 ): 83 – 103...