It is my pleasure to announce the results of the AASA election for new Board Members. Sally Howell and Amira Jarmakani garnered the most votes and will be joining the AASA Board. Amira will serve as a Member-at-Large, and Sally will assume the role of Secretary. Thank you to all the candidates who ran for…
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New Book Wins AWP Grace Paley Award for Fiction; New from UMass Press The 2014 winner of the Grace Paley Award is A Curious Land, by Susan Muaddi Darraj. This short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection,…
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AASA – American Studies Association Board Meeting (board members only) Saturday, November 21, 3-4 pm, PC-Plaza Court 7 AASA – American Studies Association Business Meeting (open to the public) Saturday, November 21, 4-5 pm, PC-Plaza Court 5 R4057] Ethnic Minority or White? Social and Economic Lives of Arab Americans (Sunday, 11/22/15 11:00am) According to federal…
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From Linda Jacobs: Dear fellow AASA Members: I am pleased to offer you a complimentary desk copy of my new book, Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900. It is the first ethnography of this important center of the Arab diaspora in America, and tells the story of its inhabitants, their origins,…
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AASA members are on a roll! Another exciting publication is out, this time from AASA member Nancy El Gendy. Congratulations, Nancy! Her article “Trickster Humour in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home: Negotiating Arab American Muslim Female Sexuality” will be published in Women: a cultural review, vol. 27, no. 1, March 2016 (Open Forum issue).…
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The Board of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) would like to invite interested current AASA members to run for election to fill two open positions on the AASA Board. One position is for a Member-at-Large, and one is for Secretary. The term for Member-at-Large is two years, and will run from November 2015 to…
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AASA member Janice Terry’s newest book William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East WW1–WW2 is out now via Rimalbooks Press. From the Rimalbooks website: Synopsis William Yale was born into the Anglo-American power elite in the late nineteenth century. After graduating from Yale University (founded by one of his forebears), he joined the…
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ASA member Michael Malek Najjar has a new book out from McFarland Press, titled Arab American Drama, Film and Performance: A Critical Study, 1908 to the Present. From the McFarland Press website: About the Book Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this…
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AASA member Linda Jacobs new book, Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900, is now available from Kalimah Press. You can purchase a copy either on Amazon and or on the publisher’s website. The author will sign all books ordered directly from the publisher, and if anyone orders five or…
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A recent post about AASA Board Member Matthew Stiffler on the University of Michigan’s Facebook page generated quite a buzz on the internet this week. Check out The Arab American News coverage of the story: On Facebook on Wednesday, the University of Michigan featured Stiffler and his efforts to share that passion as part of…
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