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A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe and America (US)
by Adam Lebor  Publisher Comments It began in Bosnia, where Islamic nationalism was reborn as Serb shells rained down on Europe's ancient Muslim heartland. It was the start of a three-year odyssey into the hearts and minds of Muslim Europe and America, a journey by which Adam LeBor set...
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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...
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to...
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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...
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My Name Is Iran
by Davar Ardalan Publisher Comments A century of family tales from two beloved but divided homelands, Iran and America. Drawing on her remarkable personal history, NPR producer Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and...
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My Name Is Iran: A Memoir
by Davar Ardalan Publisher Comments “Ardalan’s testimony to the feminist spirit of the pioneering women in her family, and in the face of centuries-long strictures against the advancement of women, is a supreme achievement.”—Publishers Weekly Drawing on her...
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11
by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Islam is America's 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...
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The Arab Americans: A History
by Greg Orfalea Synopsis 100+ years of the history of Arab Americans combines a historian's research with the vivid storytelling of a poet/novelist....
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Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects (Arab American Writing)
by Amaney Jamal Book News Annotation Contending that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks transformed the nearly invisible Arab/Muslim-American ethnic/ cultural group to a "white but not quite" racial minority, Jamal (politics, Princeton U.) and Naber (women' studies/American culture,...
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Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America
by Gelareh Asayesh Publisher Comments Gifted journalist Gelareh Asayesh writes indelibly of her struggle to balance an Iranian childhood with her adult life in America. A brave and beautifully written memoir that should be read by all who seek to understand Iran, America, or the divided life...
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Embracing the Infidel : Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West (06 Edition)
by Yaghmaian Publisher Comments A true-life account of courage, prejudice, tragedy, and hope follows Muslim immigrants on their journey on a modern-day underground railroad leading from Istanbul to London, offering a revealing glimpse of their lives, concerns, and experiences as they...
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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...
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11
by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Islam is America's 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 onTerror?...
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Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America
by Gelareh Asayesh Publisher Comments 'Gifted journalist Gelareh Asayesh writes indelibly of her struggle to balance an Iranian childhood with her adult life in America. \"A brave and beautifully written memoir that should be read by all who seek to understand Iran, America, or the divided...
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Middle Eastern Lives in America (Joe Feagin)
by Amir B Marvasti Synopsis Using data from in-depth interviews, this book brings to light the existence of Middle Easterners in America and shows the human complexity of their lives. This work gives special attention to how members of this ethnic group cope with, resist and combat...
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Lipstick Jihad : Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (05 Edition)
by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to...
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America
by Jack Marshall Publisher Comments "[Marshall] understands that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art."-San Francisco Chronicle "Born in Brooklyn of Arabic/Jewish heritage, Marshall may represent the keynote, most critical...
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Salaam America: South Asian Muslims in New York
by Amina Mohammed Arif Publisher Comments Although Islam and integration are frequently seen as antithetical concepts in much of Europe, in the USA the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent are an example of a population who have succeeded. This is in great measure due to their high levels of...
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To See and See Again : a Life in Iran and America (99 Edition)
by Tara Bahrampour Synopsis A stunningly well written, subtle, entertaining, and understated account of family life lived in America and in Iran before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution....
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War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims
by Melody Moezzi
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