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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition) by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out (Capital Currents Book) by Maryam Qudrat Aseel Publisher Comments An Afghan-American woman explores life in America as a Muslim, her Afghan heritage, and the future of Middle-East -US relations.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Name Is Iran by Davar Ardalan Publisher Comments Drawing on her remarkable personal history, a National Public Radio producer brings readers the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution in America and Iran.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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Civil Rights in Peril : the Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (04 Edition) by Elaine Hagopian Publisher Comments Muslims and Arab-Americans are increasingly under attack as a result of the US 'war on terror' - at home, as well as abroad. Since the tragic events of September 11, Arab and Muslim Americans have faced a major assault on their civil liberties. While... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Islam is Americas fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror?... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics by Greg Orfalea Publisher Comments Though he has spent half of his life elsewhere, Gregory Orfalea has remained obsessed with Los Angeles. That “brutal, beautiful city along the Pacific sea” shaped him and led to a series of essays originally published in the Los Angeles Times... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim Worlds by Nawar Shora Publisher Comments An essential guide to the Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim communities and cultures. Entertaining and easy to read. Law enforcement, corporate America, and the general public will find that they can quickly overcome stereotypes and misconceptions to... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories by Alia Malek Publisher Comments Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Laughing Without an Accent (08 Edition) by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments Mining her rich Persian heritage with dry wit and a bold spirit, Firoozeh Dumas puts her own unique mark on the themes of family, community, and tradition. Explaining crossover cultural food fare, Dumas says, “The weirdest American culinary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives by Alia Malek Publisher Comments The history of Arab settlement in the United States stretches back nearly as far as the history of America itself. For the first time, Alia Malek brings this history to life. In each of eleven spellbinding chapters, she inhabits the voice and life of one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A World Between: Poems, Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans by Persis Karim Publisher Comments Wide-ranging and deeply personal, this anthology explores the Iranian-American community's continuing struggle to understand what it means to be Iranian in America.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora by Parin Dossa Publisher Comments This book uses gendered stories of displacement and re-settlement to interrogate our understanding of social suffering and justice. Parin Dossa, an anthropologist, argues that systemic inequity and exclusionary practices impact the health and well-being... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim Worlds by Nawar Shora Publisher Comments A straightforwared, easy-to-read, and entertaining guide to Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim communities and cultures. Law enforcement, corporate America, and the general public will find that they can quickly overcome stereotypes and misconceptions to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11 by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments A community that is tired of being judged by American perceptions of Muslims overseas is revealed in a thought-provoking account of Muslims in America today who are eager to share their own stories.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims by Melody Moezzi Publisher Comments War on Error brings together the stories of twelve young people, all vastly different but all American, and all Muslim. Their approaches to religion couldnat be more diverse: from a rapper of Korean and Egyptian descent to a bisexual Sudanese American to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Running for All the Right Reasons: A Saudi-Born Woman's Pursuit of Democracy (Arab American Writing) by Ferial Masry Book News Annotation Masry was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and educated in Egypt. She received a master's degree from California Lutheran U., and has taught government and history at a Los Angeles high school since 1999. In 2004, she became the first Saudi American to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments The story of the Iranian-American author's search for identity between two cultures torn apart by a violent history paints a portrait of Iran's next generation.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $11.54 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Road to Home: My Life and Times by Vartan Gregorian Publisher Comments In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world. Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Mo Bayoumi Publisher Comments The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed “problem” of American society, their lives no better... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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