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"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
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In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American organizations and examining the emerging alliances between Arab American and other anti-imperialist and antiracist movements, Pennock sheds new light on the role of Arab Americans in the social change of...
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"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. Just over a century ago , W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new "problem"-Arab- and Muslim-Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living...
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"To the Mansours, an Arab American family living in Seattle, love knows no borders. But despite our best efforts, sometimes love - and family - are foreign to us. American-born Margaret Mansour wants nothing more than to rekindle the struggling twenty-year marriage to her Palestinian husband, Ahmed, but not if it means uprooting their home and children in America and moving halfway across the world. Young and ambitious Alison Mansour has a degree...
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Un día nevado, una visita a la abuela, tiempo cocinando juntas y un espacio para pausar y descubrir el mundo a tu alrededor se reúnen en este libro perfecto para leerse y compartirse en un acogedor día de invierno.
Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building.
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A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.
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"I think the most beautiful things in the world are things in flux," says Kat Warren-Bineki, the heroine of Nude Walker. Everything about Kat's world is in flux. She hails from Warrenside, Pennsylvania, a once prosperous town named after her mother's family. With the death of the steel industry, Warrenside has fallen on hard times; when its economy falters, Kat and her parents are among the few citizens still eking out a living there.
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Arab American Heritage 2024
Arab American Heritage Month 2024 - Teens
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Teens
Arab American Heritage 2024
Arab American Heritage Month 2024 - Teens
Poetry and Novels in Verse - Teens
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Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States.
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2024 FPPL Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage 2024
Arab American Heritage Month 2024 Adults
Arab American Heritage 2024
Arab American Heritage Month 2024 Adults
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"Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle East honor...
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Presents a history of Arab immigration to the United States and Canada, from the 19th century to the present day, with information about famous Arab Americans, Islam, and Arab-American neighborhoods, as well as a discussion of life in the United States for Arab Americans after the September 11 terrorist attack.
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"This time it's personal! Three of the nation's hottest Arab-American comedians, Ahmed Ahmed, Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid perform their one-of-a-kind comedy to audiences in Dearborn, Michigan and Seattle, Washington bringing home the familiar adage 'Laugh and the world will laugh with you.' From racial profiling to the many Arab stereotypes, these daring performers will shed light and humor on what it means to be an Arab-American in today's...
35) American east
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A timely, poignant drama about Arab Americans living in post-9/11 Los Angeles, American East examines long-held misunderstandings about Arabic and Islamic culture. Since the attacks, the Arab community has born the burden of racial discrimination.
36) The amateur spy
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Former aid worker Freeman Lockhart is blackmailed into spying on his former Jordanian friend and co-worker Omar al-Baroody in order to prevent an act of terrorism against Washington's highest power brokers.
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Farah rocks volume 2
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Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
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