Ebook {Epub PDF} A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots American Stories by Alia Malek

Infectiously readable, the profiles in A Country Called Amreeka add character and texture to the history of the Arab-American community, challenging every tired stereotype and giving us new insight into what it means to be an Arab-American today. This book gives us the faces behind the names, and tells the story of a community that both enriches and embraces the American fabric/5(24). A country called Amreeka: Arab roots, American stories. [Alia Malek] -- Retells a number of significant events in U.S. history, through the eyes of the nation's large and growing community of Arab Americans. Malek’s (A Country Called Amreeka) multigenerational memoir is a brilliant combination of geopolitics and family history. Infectiously readable, the profiles in A Country Called Amreeka add character and texture to the history of the Arab-American community, challenging every tired stereotype and giving us new insight into what it means to be an Arab-American today. This book gives us the faces behind the names, and tells the story of a community that both enriches and embraces the American fabric.4/5(20).

In A COUNTRY CALLED AMREEKA: Arab Roots, American Stories (Free Press; October 6, ; $), Syrian-American civil right lawyer Alia Malek weaves the stories of the Arab-American community into the story of America, using lively and moving narratives of real people who have lived history all around the country. A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek. This is a phenomenal book that opens the door to understanding the American Arab experience. Very easy to read, funny, sad, well written. Here is some more information on this book. "Infectiously readable This book gives us the faces behind the names, and tells the story of a community that both. Read "A Country Called Amreeka Arab Roots, American Stories" by Alia Malek available from Rakuten Kobo. Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been repor.

A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories: Author: Alia Malek: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Simon and Schuster, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. A Country Called Amreeka Arab Roots American Stories|Alia Malek5, Historical Anthropology Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology|Nicholas B Dirks, Numerical Simulations of the Head-Disk Interface in Hard Disk Drives Finite Element Solutions for the Transient and Steady State Air-Bearing Equations|Puneet Bhargava, Into the Past Transport in |Elizabeth Merson. In each of eleven spellbinding chapters, she inhabits the voice and life of one Arab American, at one time-stopping historical moment. Separately, the chapters in A Country Called Amreeka transport us; together, they offer a vital piece of the mosaic of our American history and a fresh, urgent, and exciting perspective on a teeming community whom it has become essential for us to understand.