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Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century (Greenwood, 2012). Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012). Cainkar, Louis A. Homeland insecurity: the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009). Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck.
Arab American Heritage Month is intended to commemorate and honor the achievements of the some of the roughly 3.7 million members of the community residing in the U.S.
The group now known as Arab Americans for Peace is far from alone in its rejection of the idea. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., slammed Trump’s proposal, saying that it did not put "America first."
That same sentiment was shared in 2003 by the late Arab American author Elizabeth Boosahda in “Arab-American Faces and Voices,” when she wrote about the need to cover this part of history.
Today, Arabs make up roughly 1.2 percent of the overall US population. [29] Between 1990 and 2000 the Arab American population increased by an estimated 30 percent. [29] Lebanese are the largest group of Arab Americans in every state except for New Jersey, where Egyptians make up the largest nationality. [28]
A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...
The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee typically holds its annual convention in Washington D.C. This year, it needed to be in Dearborn. ‘We are not OK:’ Arab Americans, feeling ...
It was this very debate that drew prominent Arab American figures, including activists and politicians, to Dearborn in September for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s 44th Arab ...