Forget Poles: Palestinians find a home in suburban Chicago AASA President Louise Cainkar was recently quoted in a Chicago area radio program on Chicago’s growing Palestinian community. Check out the full piece here, and read an excerpt below: How many people of Palestinian descent actually live in the region? The truth is more complicated, but…
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AASA President Louise Cainkar has a new article out via the Middle East Research and Information Project. Check out this preview and see link below to subscribe and read the whole piece. Becoming Arab American by Louise Cainkar published in MER278 Scholars have long found that while pan-Arab organizations in the United States called themselves…
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Dr. Evelyn Alsultnay was recently featured on NPR discussing representations of Muslim women in television. Check out the interview by clicking the link below: “In 2015, TV Broke Ground By Showing Relatable Women in Hijab,” Interview by Neda Ulaby, NPR, January 1, 2016.
Please join us in congratulating AASA board member Evelyn Alsultany for publishing three new articles this spring. Mabrouk, Dr. Alsultany! “Reclaiming Identity Online: An Interview with Evelyn Alsultany, Jane Abell, American Anthropologist, Vol. 118, Issue 1, March 2016, 161-165, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.12518/epdf “Representations of Arabs, Muslims, and Iranians in an Era of Complex Characters and Storylines,” Film Criticism Journal,…
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AASA Member Waleed Mahdi has a new article out now via Mashriq & Mahjar. “Post-Oriental Otherness: Hollywood’s Moral Geography of Arab Americans.” Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 3, no. 2 (2016), 35-61. Abstract: How do filmmakers in the United States play a role in perpetuating narratives of belonging to the American culture?…
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AASA Member Stanley L. Thangaraj has a new publication out: Asian American Sporting Cultures. Edited by Stanley I. Thangaraj, Constancio Arnaldo, and Christina B. Chin Foreword by J. Jack Halberstam Afterword by Lisa Lowe From the NYU Press Website: Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian…
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AASA member Stacy Fahrenthold has published a new article, “Former Ottomans in the ranks: pro-Entente military recruitment among Syrians in the Americas, 1916–18″ in the current issue of the Journal of Global History. Using the press writings and memoirs of Syrian American recruiters and immigrant enlistees, the article tracks the enlistment process that led an estimate 10,000 Syrian…
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Congratulations to AASA member Dr. Sarah Gualtieri of the University of Southern California for winning a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Gualtieri’s grant is for her project “Syrian Migrants in Southern California, 1880-1945,” which is a book-length study of Syrian migration to Southern California, 1880-1945, based on archival work and…
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By Louise Cainkar President, Arab American Studies Association Associate Professor, Marquette University Arab American Studies is a strong and growing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Whether our work is about the historical, literary, political, or current social conditions, we have much to contribute to matters of public debate because we are driven by knowledge and the…
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The University of Massachusetts Press is offering a 30% discount on AASA Member Susan Muaddi Darraj’s new book, A Curious Land, until December 31st. It is a collection of short stories which won the 2014 Grace Paley Award for Fiction. To place orders: Order online or by phone (800-537-5487). To receive a special 30% discount…
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