We have compiled a list of recommended readings about Arabs, Arab/Muslim Americans, and the Arab World. We hope you find these selections interesting and useful. Feel free to contact us with your suggestions and comments.
NONFICTION
Arab and Muslim Youth in North America
Abu El-Haj, T. R. (2005). Global politics, dissent and Palestinian-American identities: Engaging conflict to re-invigorate democratic education. In L. Weis and M. Fine (Eds.), Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, race and gender in United States schools (pp.119-215). Revised edition. Albany: SUNY press.
Abu El-Haj, T. R. (2007). “I was born here but my home it’s not here”: Educating for democratic citizenship in an era of transnational migration and global conflict. Harvard Educational Review 77 (3), 285-316.
Abu El-Haj, T. R. (2009). Imagining postnationalism: Arts, citizenship education and Arab American youth. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 40 (1), 1-19.
Ajrouch, K.J. (2004) Gender, race, and symbolic boundaries: Contested spaces of identity Among Arab American adolescents. Sociological Perspectives, 47 (4), 371-391.
Ghaffar-Kucher, A. (2009). Citizenship and belonging in an age of insecurity: Pakistani immigrant youth in New York City. In Frances Vavrus & Lesley Bartlett (Eds.), Critical approaches to comparative education: Vertical case studies from Africa, Europe , the Middle East and the Americas. New York: Palgrave.
Maira, S. (2004). Imperial Feelings: Youth culture, citizenship and globalization. In M. M. Suarez-Orozco and D. B. Qin-Hilliard (Eds.), Globalization: Culture and education in the new millennium. (pp. 203-234). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Sarroub, L. K., (2001). The sojourner experience of Yemeni American high school students: An ethnographic portrait. Harvard Educational Review 71 (3), 390-412.
Sirin, S. and Fine, M. (2008). Muslim American Youth: Understanding hyphenated identities through multiple methods. New York: New York University Press.
Zine, J. (2004) Anti-Islamophobia education as transformative pedagogy: reflections from the educational front lines. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 21(3), 110-119.
Arabs and Muslims in America
Akram, S. M. and K. R. Johnson (2004). Race and civil rights pre-September 11, 2001: The targeting of Arabs and Muslims. In E. C. Hagopian (Ed.), Civil rights in peril: The targeting of Arabs and Muslims. (pp. 9-25). Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Ameri A. and Ramey D., ed (1999) Arab American Encyclopedia. Detroit: UXL
Barboza S. (1995) American Jihad; Islam After Malcolm X. (Need location) Image Publishing
Bayoumi M. (2008) How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America. Penguin Press.
El Rassi T. (2007). Arab in America. San Francisco: Last Grasp
Ewing, K.P. & Hoyler, M. (2008) Being Muslim and American: South Asian Muslim youth and the war on terror. In K.P. Ewing (Ed). Being and belonging: Muslims in the United States since 9/11. (pp. 80-103). New York: Russell Sage.
Malek A. (2009). A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Murray, N. (2004). Profiled: Arabs, Muslims and the Post-9/11 hunt for the “enemy within.” In E. C. Hagopian (Ed.), Civil rights in peril: The targeting of Arabs and Muslims. (pp. 27-68.) Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Naff A. (1993). Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience. Chicago: Southern Illinois University Press.
Naff A. (1998). The Arab Americans: The Immigrant Experience. New York: Chelsea House Publications.
Orfalea G. (2005). The Arab Americans: A History. New York: Olive Branch Press.
Said E.W. (1980, April 26). Islam Through Western Eyes. The Nation.
Salaita S. (2005). Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11. College Literature. 32.2. 146-168.
Salaita S. (2006). Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes from and What it Means for Politics Today. London: Pluto Press
Salaita S. (2008). The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the Poverty of Liberal Thought. London: Zed Books.
Shaheen J. (2001). Reel Bad Arabs. New York: Olive Branch Press.
Suleiman M. (2000) Arabs in America: Building a New Future. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
X M. (1987). The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books
Politics
Ali T (2003). The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Scranton: Verso.
Bennis P. and Moushabeck M., editors (1998). Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader. Northampton: Interlink Books.
Carey R. (ed) (2001). The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid. Scranton: Verso.
Chomsky N. (1999). The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Boston: South End Press.
Chomsky N. (2003). Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chomsky N. (2007). Inside Lebanon: Journey to A Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky (with A. J. Kfoury, et al.). New York: Monthly Review Press.
Fisk R. (2002). Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon. New York: Nation Books.
Fisk R. (2005) The Great War for Civilization: the Conquest of the Middle East. New York: Knopf Publishing.
Hourani A. (1992). A History of the Arab Peoples. Clayton: Warner Books.
Kepel G. (2003) Muslim Extremism in Egypt; The Prophet and Pharaoh. Berkley: University of California Press.
Maalouf A. (1984). The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken.
Mamdani, M. (2004). Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror. New York: Pantheon.
McAlister M. (2001) Epic Encounters: Culture, Media &US Interests in the Middle East 1945-2000. Berkley: University of California Press.
Said, E.W. (1978) Orientalism. London: Vintage Books.
Said E.W. (1994). Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage.
Said E.W. (1997). Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. London: Vintage.
Said E.W. (2001). The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After. London: Vintage.
Sacco J. (2002). Palestine. Seattle: Fantagraphics.
Shehadeh R. (2001). Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine. Hanover: Steerforth.
Zogby J. (2010). Arab Voices: What They Are Saying and Why It Matters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Women
Abu-Lughod L. (1998). Feminist logics and postcolonial conditions. In L. Abu-Lughod (Ed.), Remaking women: Feminism and modernity in the Middle East (pp. 3-31). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ahmed L. (2000) Women and Gender in Islam; A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey. New York: Penguin Books.
El Guindi F. (2005). Gendered Resistance, Feminist Veiling, Islamic Feminism. Ahfad Journal.
Fernea E. and Bezirgan B. (eds) (1978) Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Haddad, Y. Y., Smith, J.I., & Moore, K.M. (2006). Muslim Women in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kanafani F.A (1999) Nadia; Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman. Armonk: M.E Sharpe.
Kadi J. (ed) (1994). Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab American & Arab Canadian Feminists. Boston: South End Press.
Keddie N. & Baron B. Women in Middle Eastern History; Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Zine J. (2006) Unveiled sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and experiences of veiling among Muslim girls in a Canadian Islamic school. Equity and Excellence in Education, 39, 239-252.
Islam
Abdo G. (2002). No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Armstrong K. (2001). Islam: A Short History; The Battle for God. New York: Ballantine Books.
Bloom J and Blair S. (2002). Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New Haven: Yale University Press
Cleary T. (1994) The Essential Koran. San Francisco: Harper.
Denny F. (2005) An Introduction to Islam. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Esposito J. (1983) Islam: The Straight Path; Voices of Resurgent Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lings M. (1993). Muhammad: His Life Based on Earlier Sources; A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad Al-Alawi. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society.
Mayer A.E (1998). Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. Boulder: Westview.
Mernissi F. (1992). The Veil and the Male Elite. New York: Basic Books.
Mernissi F (2002). Islam and Democracy. New York: Basic Books.
Watt W.M. & Bell R. (2001). Introduction to the Qur’an. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Culture
Abinader E. (1997). Children of the Roojme: A Family’s Journey from Lebanon. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Barakat I. (2007). Tasting the Sky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Bowen D.L and Early E (ed) (1993). Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Cortas W. M. (2009). A World I Loved. New York: Perseus Books
Ghannam F. (2002). Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo. Berkley: University of California Press.
Kaldas P. and Mattawa K.(ed) (2004). Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology Of Contemporary Arab American Fiction. Fayettesville: University of Arkansas Press.
Maalouf A. (2000). On Identity. London: The Harvill Press.
Maalouf A. (2008). Origins: A Memoir. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Makdisi J.S. (1999). Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir. New York: Persea Books.
Mardam-Bey F. (2002). Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine. Danbury: Ici La Press.
Rodseth L et. all. (2000). Arab World Mosaic: A Curriculum Suppement for Elementary Teachers. Deerborn: Access Cultural Arts Program
Rodenbeck M. (1998). Cairo: The City Victorious. London: Picador Press.
Said E.W. (1999) Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Random House.
Shihab A. (2007). Does the Land Remember Me? Syracuse: Syracuse University Press
FICTION
Poetry
Abinader E. (1999). In the Country of My Dreams. New York: Sufi Warrior Publishing.
Darwish M. (1995) Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut 1982. Berkley: University of California Press.
Darwish M. (2001) Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems. Berkley: University of California Press.
Darwish M. (2001) The Adam of Two Edens : Selected Poems. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Handal N. ed (2000). The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. Northampton: Interlink Press.
Handal N. (2005). The Lives of Rain. Northampton: Interlink.
Handal N. (2005). The Neverfield. Northampton: Interlink.
Khouri M. and Algar H. (ed) (2005). An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry. Berkley: University of California Press.
Orfalea G. & Elmus S. (ed) (1999). Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry. Northampton: Interlink Press.
Shihab Nye N. (1994). Red Suitcase. Rochester: BOA Editions Ltd.
Shihab Nye N. (1998). Fuel. Rochester: BOA Editions Ltd.
Shihab Nye N. (1998). The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. New York: Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing.
Shihab Nye N. (2002) 19 Varieties of Gazelle. New York: Greenwillow Books.
Shihab Nye N. (2007). I’ll ask you three times Are You Ok? New York: Greenwillow Books.
Prose
Abulhawa S. (2006). The Scar of David. Fayettesville: Journey Publications.
Abu-Jaber D. (2003). Arabian Jazz. New York: W.W Norton & Company.
Abu-Jaber D. (2004). Crescent. New York: W.W Norton & Company.
Alameddine R. (2002). I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters. New York: W.W Norton & Company.
Alameddine R. (2008). The Hakawati. New York: Knopf.
Ali T. (1993). Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree. Scranton: Verso Publishing.
Ali T. (1999). The Book of Saladin. Scranton: Verso Publishing.
Ali T. (2001). The Stone Woman. Scranton: Verso Publishing.
Al-Shaykh H. (1992). Women of Sand and Myrrh. New York: Anchor Books.
Al-Shaykh H. (1996). Beirut Blues. New York: Anchor Books.
Al-Shaykh H. (1996). The Story of Zahra. New York: Anchor Books.
Al-Shaykh H. (1998). I Sweep the Sun Off the Rooftops. New York: Anchor Books.
Al-Shaykh H. (2002). Only in London. New York: Anchor.
Awwad T.Y. (1984). Death in Beirut. Washington D.C: Three Continents Press.
Bushnaq I. (1987). Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books.
Gibran K. (1973). The Prophet. New York: Knopf.
Halaby L. (2003). West of the Jordan. Boston: Beacon Press.
Jarrar R. (2009). A Map of Home. New York: Penguin Books.
Khoury E. (1994). The Journey of Little Gandhi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Khoury E. (auth) and Theroux P (trans.) (2002). Yalo. Brooklyn: Archipelago Books.
Maalouf A. (1994). The Rock of Tanios. New York: George Braziller
Maalouf A. (1998). Samarkand. Northampton: Interlink Publishing.
Maalouf A. (2001). Ports of Call. London: Random House UK.
Maalouf A. (2002). Balthasar’s Oddysey. New York: Arcade Publishing.
Mahfouz N. (1988). Children of Gebelawi. Washington D.C: Three Continents Press.
Mahfouz N. (1990). Fountain and Tomb. Washington D.C: Three Continents Press.
Mahfouz N. (2000). The Beggar, The Thieve and the Dogs, The Trilogy. New York: Anchor.
Mahfouz N. (2010). Mirrors. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
Matar H. (2006). In the Country of Men. New York: Dial Press.
Muhawi I. & Kanaana S. (1989). Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales. Berkley: University of California Press.
Salih T. (1970). Season of Migration to the North. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Schami R. (2009). The Dark Side of Love. Northampton: Interlink Books.
Soueif A. (1996). Aisha. Bloomsbury: London.
Soueif A. (1997). Sandpiper. Trafalgar Square: London.
Soueif A. (2000). In the Eye of the Sun. New York: Anchor Books.
Soueif A. (2000). Map of Love. New York: Anchor Books.
Yunis A. (2009). The Night Counter. New York: Shaye Areheart.
FOR CHILDREN
Abdullah M.M (1990). My Khyber Marriage. London: Octagon Press.
Bahous S. (1997). Sitti and the Cats. Lanham: Roberts Rhinehart Publishers.
Boueri M, Boutros J. et all. (2005). Lebanon A to Z: A Middle Eastern Mosaic. Exeter: Publishing Works.
Boueri M. (2005). Lebanon 1-2-3: A Counting Book in Three Languages. Exeter: Publishing Works.
(1999). Children’s Illustrated Arabic Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books.
Dunn R.E (1989). The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. Berkley: University of California Press.
Ghazi S.H (1996). Ramadan. New York: Holiday House.
Heide F.P & Gilliand J.H (1995). The Day of Ahmed’s Secret; Sami and the Time of the Troubles. London: Sandpiper Books.
Hughes V. (2002). Aziz the Storyteller. Northampton: Crocodile Books.
Husain S. (1999). What Do We Know About Islam? London: Hodder Wayland.
Jones-Bey H.A. (1996). Better Than a Thousand Months: An American Muslim Family Celebration. Fremont: Ibn Musa Publishing.
Khan R. (2001). The Roses in my Carpet; Muslim Child: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems. Toronto: Napoleon Publishing.
Laird E. (2006). A Little Piece of Ground. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
London J. (1997). Ali, Child of the Desert. New York: Harper Collins.
Marston E. (1996). Free as the Desert Wind. Cambridge: Hoopoe Books.
Matthews M. (2000). Magid Fasts Ramadan. London: Sandpiper Books.
Matze C.S (2002). The Stars in My Geddoh’s Sky. Park Ridge: Albert Whitman & Company.
Oppenheim S.L. (1997). The Hundredth Name. Honesdale: Boyds Mills Press.
Shah I. (Collected) & Shah S. (ed) (1990). Afghan Caravan. London: Octagon Press.
Shihab Nye N. (1997). Sitti’s Secrets. Madison: Demco Media.
Shihab Nye N. (1999). Habibi. New York: Simon Pulse.
Shihab Nye N. (2000). Come With Me. New York: Greenwillow Books.
Steffens B. (2007). Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist. Greensboro: Morgan Reynolds.
Whitesides B. (2009). Sugar comes from Arabic. Northampton: Interlink.
Other Resources
Council on Islamic Education: Teaching about Islam & Muslims in the Public School Classroom (see www.cie.org); Muslim Women Through the Centuries; The Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions Between Europeans & Muslims.
ACCESS, Arab World Studies Notebook (middle/high school level); Arab World Mosaic (elementary school level) — see www.accesscommunity.org
