Arab American Heritage Month - Recommended Readings

Gregory Orfalea, The Arab Americans:  A History (Olive Branch Press, 2006).

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Becoming American? The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America  (Baylor University Press, 2022).

Akram Fouad Khater, "Becoming “Syrian” in America: A Global Geography of Ethnicity and Nation" 31 Aug 2005-Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (University of Toronto Press)-Vol. 14, Iss: 2, pp 299-331.

Sarah Gualtieri, Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora(University of California Press, 2009).

Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid (Melville House, Revised, 2012).

Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems, (Cypher Books, 2008).

Diana Abu-Jaber, Cresent, (W.W. Norton, Reprint, 2004).

Jacob B. Shammas, From Baghdad to Boston and Beyond: Memoir of an Iraqi Jew, (iUniverse, 2018).

Gregory Orfalea, Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry(Interlink Books, 1999).

Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America(Penguin Books, 2008).

Najla Said, Looking for Palestine, (Riverhead Books, 2014).

Camila Pastor, The Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate(University of Texas Press, 2017).

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Not Quite American? The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States(Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2004).

Edward Said, Out of Place, (Vintage, 2000).

Gibran Khalil Gibran, The Prophet , (Knopf, 1923).

Pamela Pennock, The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Hala Alyan, Salt Houses, (Harper Collins, 2017).

Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico(University of Texas Press, 2007).

Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Stanford University Press, (Coming: December 2024).