Gregory Orfaleaās new and definitive work spans a century and a half of the life of Arab immigrants and their descendants in the United States. In The Arab Americans: A History, Orfalea has marshaled over 150 interviews and 25 years of research to tell the story that begins in 1856, when camel driver Hajdi Ali (or Hi Jolly) was hired by Jefferson Davis to cut a ācamel trailā across the Southwest, and continues through the 2005 arrest of a former Virginia high school valedictorian accused of plotting with al-Qaeda. Once seen as the ābenevolent stranger,ā as the author points out, today Arab Americans are āthe malevolent stranger.ā His book, however, is an assault on such ignorance, both celebration and warning. The Arab Americans is the culmination of a lifeās work, a landmark in the history of what it means to be an American. It is also the history of a community uniquely repressed in American scholarship, history, literature, and politics. The Arab Americans fills a sizable void, and it could not be more timely. With American troops sprawled across the Arab and Muslim world, Orfaleaās work is like light in a dark tunnelāfacts, not stereotypes; people, not shadows; the vibrant world of a lost American experience come to life. Orfalea brings to this work an historianās love of meticulous and telling detail, a poetās ear, and a novelistās sense of story. The cumulative effect is symphonic and its arrival none too soon.
This book title, The Arab Americans (A History), ISBN: 9781566565974, by Greg Orfalea, published by Interlink Publishing Group Inc (December 30, 2005) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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