Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Great Lakes Books) [Paperback]

Nabeel Abraham (Editor), Andrew Shryock (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814328121 | ISBN-13: 978-0814328125 | Publication Date: July 2000

A collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews, and essays on the Arab American experience in Detroit.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mixing analytical pieces with evocative personal accounts and poetry, [Arab Detroit] stresses the diversity of Detroits Arab population, breaking down stereotypes about Arabs in general and those in Detroit in particular. -- Karen Leonard, University of California, Irvine

This book is by far the best on the topic. While there have been studies of Detroit and Arab Americans generally, there is no such in-depth analysis, from so many angles (food, music, religion, identity, politics, etc.) and on so many different Arab ethnic groups. -- Philip Kayal, Seton Hall University

From the Publisher

Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal experience, while over fifty photographs provide a backdrop of vivid, often unexpected, images. Panoramic and highly nuanced, "Arab Detroit" shows the extent to which popular notions of tolerance and inclusion have not been applied to Arabs in Detroit and charts the alternative routes by which Arabs enter and influence the American mainstream. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 629 pages
• Publisher: Great Lakes Books (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814328121
• ISBN-13: 978-0814328125
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #806,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Saladin Ahmed has been a finalist for the Nebula, Campbell, and Harper's Pen awards. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and podcasts including Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, StarShipSofa and PodCastle, and has been translated into Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, and Romanian. His poetry has earned fellowships from several universities, and has appeared in over a dozen journals and anthologies. His fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon is forthcoming from DAW Books in February 2012.