Amid the devastating reverberations of the fatal explosion in the port of Beirut on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) is in solidarity with, and in support of, our friends, family, and comrades in Lebanon. The effects of the August 4 explosion on Lebanese communities from all sects and class backgrounds,…
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July 2020 The cascading crisis laid bare by Covid-19 reveals vulnerabilities among and between communities that are deeply entangled, differentially distributed, and stretched across geographical borders. These vulnerabilities have been produced and sustained by deep social inequalities sedimented over many decades. As the Arab American Studies Association has recently underscored, this moment reveals how the…
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New Documentary–The Romey Lynchings The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies is committed to preserve and share the history of the Lebanese in America. As part of this effort, The Khayrallah Center just released a new documentary–The Romey Lynchings–to the Center’s YouTube channel so that it will be accessible for free to faculty, students and…
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Dear President Schlissel and Provost Philbert. The Arab American Studies Association recognizes that the University of Michigan has played a historic role in supporting research on and by Arab and Muslim American communities. UM students were among the first to join the Muslim Student Association and the group’s first annual meeting was hosted by this…
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The Arab American Studies Association denounces all forms of white supremacy and the policing systems designed to uphold it. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white police officer and in support of nationwide uprisings against state violence and anti-Black racism, we come back to the words of Ruth Wilson…
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The Arab American Studies Association is alarmed by the open racism, bigotry, and rising level of hate crimes perpetrated against Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, People of Color now on display in the United States. We oppose characterizations of groups of people as if they were monolithic, and abhor the use of labels such as terrorist,…
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As the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to register mounting deaths worldwide, the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) denounces all forms of racism and racial capitalism that render migrants, communities of color, and occupied people everywhere more vulnerable to the illness and to its economic aftermath. The metaphor of contagion has…
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Dear AASA 2020 participants, Due to the impacts of COVID-19 on our communities, we have decided to cancel the online version of the conference originally scheduled for April 3-5, 2020, and postpone the entire conference until sometime in the 2020-2021 academic year when we can reconvene. See our statement on COVID-19 here. As soon as it…
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A message from the Arab American Studies Association secretary, Keith Feldman: Greetings, What a year. What a month. 2020 cannot come soon enough… It’s already time to start planning the Arab American Studies Association’s presence at the 2020 meeting of the American Studies Association. As you may know, the conference will be held in Baltimore…
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