In prose that is at once blunt and lyrical, Bayoumi presents the story of howYoung Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a countrythat often mistakes them for the enemy.
Through it all, these Young men and women persevere through triumphs and setbacks as they help weave the tapestry of a new society that is, at its heart, purely American..
He moves beyond stereotypes and clich s to reveal their often unseen struggles, from Being subjected to government surveillance to the indignities of workplace discrimination.
Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn, home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States.
Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk How Does it Feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America\'s new problem-Arab- and Muslim-Americans.
An eye-opening look at how Young Arab- and Muslim- Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Just over a century ago, W.
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In prose that is at once blunt and lyrical, Bayoumi presents the story of howYoung Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a countrythat often mistakes them for the enemy
