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Markets of Diaspora

Jeruslaem Bakery, Raleigh (2005) (Picture: Christof Galli)

Markets of Diaspora:

A Photographic Exploration of Middle East Stores in the Research Triangle

The pictures in this gallery visually explore issues of identity and belonging in the context of Middle East markets in the Raleigh-Durham (NC) area.

Noteworthy Survey

The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other
(Pew Global Attitudes Project)

The first section of the report analyzes how people in predominantly Muslim countries and non-Muslim countries view each other. This section examines the positive and negative characteristics Muslims associate with Westerners - including Muslim minorities in four Western European countries - and the traits that non-Muslims associate with Muslims. Section II focuses on opinions about the state of relations between the West and Muslims. It also explores reasons people give for Muslim nations' lack of prosperity, attitudes to the recent controversy over cartoon depictions of Muhammad, and Muslim opinions on whether Arabs carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Middle East & Islamic Studies Resources

Arab-American Studies Resources

For a list of Arab-American newspapers and periodical publications, see:
The Arab-American Press Project (UCLA Libraries)

Selected Monographs, Guides, Films, etc.

Abraham, Sameer Y. and Nabeel Abraham.: Arabs in the New World : studies on Arab-American communities.
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University, Center for Urban Studies, c1983.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 A73 1983 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: A historical overview of Arabs in America / Alixa Naff -- Emigration from Syria / Najib E. Saliba -- Arab Christians in the United States / Philip M. Kayal -- Arab Muslims and Islamic institutions in America / Yvonne Haddad -- Detroit’s Arab-American community / Sameer Y. Abraham -- The Yemeni immigrant community of Detroit / Nabeel Abraham -- Detroit’s Iraqi-Chaldeans / Mary C. Sengstock -- The Lebanese Maronites / May Ahdab-Yehia -- The Southend / Sameer Y. Abraham, Nabeel Abraham, and Barbara Aswad -- A select bibliography on Arab-American immigration and settlement / Mohammed Sawaie, p. 187-199.

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS): Arab American encyclopedia.
Detroit : U X L, c2000.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 A48 2000 Check availability @ Duke

Summary: Chapters arranged by subject present information about the history, immigration, economics, languages, religion, holidays, literature, education, jobs, politics, and other aspects of Arab Americans.

Salhi, Zahia Smail (ed.): The Arab diaspora : voices of an anguished scream.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock New & Noteworthy DS36.8 .A59 2006 Check availability @ Duke

Contents: Introduction : defining the Arab Diaspora / Zahia Smail Salhi -- The betweenness of identity : language in trans-national literature / Yasir Suleiman -- Gendering the imperial city : London in Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north / Zahia Smail Salhi -- Voices of exiles and the fictional works of Tayeb Salih / Ami Elad-Bouskila -- Voicing a culture "dispersed by time" : metropolitan location and identity in the literature and art of Sabiha al Khemir / Mohamed-Salah Omri -- Hédi Bouraoui : cross-cultural writing / Najib Redouane -- "When dwelling becomes impossible" : Arab-Jews in America and in Israel in the writings of Ahmad Susa and Shimon Ballas / Orit Bashkin -- Two trends of cutural activity among Palestinian-Americans / Nir Yehudai -- From ambiguity to abjection : Iraqi-Americans negotiating race in the United States / Evelyn Alsultany -- Beyond the Diaspora : letting Arab voices be heard / Ghalya F.T. Al-Said.

DeKane Nagel, Carol: Arab American reference library : cumulative index.
Detroit : U.X.L, c2000.
Perkins/Bostock Reference E184.A65 A68 2000 Check availability @ Duke

Includes indexes for: Arab American biography, Arab American encyclopedia, and Arab American voices

Films for the Humanities: Muslims in America [videorecording] : Islam in exile.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003.
Lilly Library A-V DVD - DVD 2292 Check availability @ Duke
Notes: "Examines the surprisingly rapid growth of Islam in the heart of America's Bible Belt, a predominantly fundamentalist Christian locale. Yet for Muslims living in Appalachia, the daily challenge lies not so much in acceptance by their neighbors as with practicing their religion in a country whose overall culture is so often at odds with their own beliefs. Interviews with refugees living in the region and with experts in American Islam reveal the resiliency of a faith that can thrive in exile. The history of Islam, Islamic contributions to the arts and sciences, and common ground between Muslims and Christians are also highlighted."

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck: Not quite American? : the shaping of Arab and Muslim identity in the United States.
Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, c2004.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 H33 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck (ed.): Muslim communities in North America.
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1994.
Perkins/Bostock BP67.U6 M86 1994 Check availability @ Duke

Contents: A minority within a minority : the case of the Shi’a in North America / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- The sun of Islam will rise in the west : Minister Farrakhan and the nation of Islam in the latter days / Mattias Gardell -- Urban Muslims : the formation of the Dar ul-Islam movement / R. M. Mukhtar Curtis -- Tradition and innovation in contemporary American Islamic spirituality : the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship / Gisela Webb -- The five percenters : a teenage nation of gods and earths / Yusuf Nuruddin -- Muslims in Los Angeles / Ron Kelley -- The Muslims of San Diego / M. K. Hermansen -- Muslims of Seattle / Miriam Adeney, Kathryn De Master -- To "achieve the pleasure of Allah" : immigrant Muslim communities in New York City 1893-1991 / Marc Ferris -- Activities of the immigrant Muslim communities in Chicago / Asad Husain, Harold Vogelaar -- The Muslims of Indianapolis / Steve A. Johnson -- Diversity in Rochester’s Islamic community / Tamara Sonn -- The Islamic center of New England / Mary Lahaj -- Muslims of Montreal / Sheila McDonough. The Shi’a Mosques and their congregations in Dearborn / Linda S. Walbridge -- Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in America / Frances Trix -- Voluntary associations in the old Turkish community of metropolitan Detroit / Barbara Bilge -- Elderly Muslim immigrants : needs and challenges / Fariyal Ross-Sheriff -- The Yemenis of Delano : a profile of a rural Islamic community / Jonathan Friedlander -- Secular immigrants : religiosity and ethnicity among Iranian Muslims in Los Angeles / George Sabagh, Mehdi Bozorgmehr -- Masjid ul-Mutkabir : the portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim community / Christine Kolars -- Attitudes of immigrant women and men in the Dearborn area toward women’s employment and welfare / Barbara Aswad.

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. Summer Institute (17th : 1996): Middle Eastern diaspora communities in America: proceedings of the 17th Annual Summer Institute of the Joint Center for Near Eastern Studies of New York University and Princeton University; edited by Mehdi Bozorgmehr & Alison Feldman.
[New York] : Published by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York Univ., c1996.
Perkins/Bostock Library E184.M52 H348 1996 Check availability @ Duke

Hall, Loretta.: Arab American biography.
Detroit : U.X.L., c1999.
Perkins/Bostock Reference E184.A65 H35 1999 Check availability @ Duke

Hall, Loretta.: Arab American voices.
Detroit : U X L, c2000.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 H36 2000 Check availability @ Duke

Summary: Twenty primary source documents from speeches, memoirs, poems, novels, and autobiographies present the words of Americans with roots in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and other Arab nations.

Islamic Resource Institute.: Directory of Masjids and Muslim organizations of North America, 1994/1415.
Fountain Valley, CA : Islamic Resource Institute, 1994.
Divinity School Library Reference Quarto BP67.A1 D57 1994 Check availability @ Duke

Marvasti, Amir B., 1966-: Middle Eastern lives in America.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 M37 2004 Check availability @ Duke

Contents: Foreword by Joe Feagin; Introduction; Part I: The History, Present Status, and Public Portrayals ch. 1: How They Came to America and Where They Are Today; ch. 2: Stereotypes of Islam and the Dubious Link with Terrorism; ch. 3: "Us" Versus "Them"; Part II: Everyday Experiences with Discrimination; ch. 4; The Stigma of Brown Skin and "Foreign" Names; ch. 5: The "Thin Veneer of Civility": Relearning the American Dream; ch. 6: Living with Discrimination; ch. 7: "I Am a Middle Eastern American!": Ethnic Self-Identification; ch. 8: "Whining" for Social Justice?

Mehdi, Beverlee Turner: The Arabs in America, 1492-1977 : a chronology & fact book.
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 1978.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 M44 1978 Check availability @ Duke

Summary: A history of Arabs in the United States with illustrative documents, appendices, and bibliography.

Nimer, Mohamed.: The North American Muslim resource guide : Muslim community life in the United States and Canada.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
Divinity School Library Reference BP67.A1 N57 2002
Perkins/Bostock Library Reference BP67.A1 N57 2002 Check availability @ Duke

Orfalea, Gregory: The Arab Americans : a history.
Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock E184.A65 O738 2006 Check availability @ Duke

Contents: Generations reunite in Arbeen, Syria -- Seeds to the wind: the first wave of Arab immigration (1878-1924) -- Transplanting the fig tree: the first generation on American soil (1924-1947) -- The Palestine debacle: the second wave of Arab immigration (1948-1966) -- The third wave: west bank captured, Lebanon torn Asunder, Iraq wars with Iran, Kuwait, and the US (1967-2005) -- The political awakening (1972-1981) -- Back to Lebanon (1982-1983) -- Stumbling toward peace (1984-2000) -- After the flames: Arab Americans and American fear (2001-2005) -- A celebration of community.

Qazwini, Hassan.: American crescent : A Muslim cleric on the power of his faith, the struggle against prejudice, and the future of Islam and America.
New York : Random House, 2007.
Divinity School Library BP80.A5296 A68 2007 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: Husayn vs. Hussein -- Struggle in Iran -- Sacred journey -- The idea of America -- Bridge building -- The Muslim capital of the West -- Paranoid America and 'Islamofascists' -- Carrying the mission to the halls of power -- Our American Bin Ladens -- Lines in the sand -- Return to the cradle -- The Islamic frontier.

Rouchdy, Aleya.: The Arabic language in America = [al-Lughah al-`Arabiyah fi Amrika]
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1992
Perkins/Bostock PJ6068.U5 A89 1992 Check availability @ Duke

Contents: Introduction / Aleya Rouchdy -- A Lebanese dialect in Cleveland : language attrition in progress / Nazih Y. Daher -- Borrowing in Arab-American speech / Aleya Rouchdy -- Directionality in Arabic-English code-switching / Mushira Eid -- Functions of code-switching : Saudi Arabic in the United States / Sabah Safi -- Arabic in the melting pot : will it survive? / Mohammed Sawaie -- Lebanese Christians in Buffalo : language maintenance and language shift / Bader S. Dweik -- Arab-American learning Arabic : motivation and attitudes / Dallas Kenny -- Arab-American media : past and present / Fahad Abdullah Tayash and Kenneth Kahtan Ayouby -- Arabic in the Dearborn mosques / Linda S. Walbridge -- History of Arabic study in the United States / Ernest McCarus -- Teaching Arabic in the United States : past, present, and future / Roger Allen -- Designing a proficiency-oriented syllabus for modern standard Arabic as a foreign language / M. Mahdi Alosh -- Diglossia proficiency : the need for an alternative approach to teaching / Mahmoud Al-Batal -- Computers for Arabic teaching : the promise and the reality / Dilworth B. Parkinson.