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Bibliography

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Abraham, Nabeel and Andrew Shryock (eds.).Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Abu-Laban, Baha and Faith T. Zeady (eds.).Arabs in America: Myths and Realities. Wilmette, Illinois: Medina University Press International, 1975.

Abu-Laban, Baha and Michael W. Suleiman (eds.).Arab-Americans: Continuity and Change. Belmont: Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1989.

Ameri, Anan and Dawn Ramey (eds.).Arab American Encyclopedia. Detroit: Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Service (ACCESS), 2000.

Ameri, Anan and Yvonne Lockwood, eds. 2001. Images of America: Arab Americans in
Metro Detroit: A Pictorial History. Chicago: Arcadia Publications.

Ashabranner, Brent. An Ancient Heritage: The Arab-American Minority.New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

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Aswad, Barbara, and Barbara Bilgé. Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

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Cainkar, Louise. 2006. “The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience.” Journal of American Ethnic History. Vol.25,# 2-3:243-278.

El Guindi, Fadwa. Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance. Oxford: Berg Publications, 1999.

Hagopian, Elaine C. and Ann Paden. The Arab Americans: Studies in Assimilation. Wilmette, IL:Medina University Press International, 1969.

Hassoun, Rosina. 2002. Arab Americans in Michigan. Ethnicity in Michigan Series.
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Hooglund, Eric. J. (ed.). Crossing the Waters,Arabic-Speaking Immigrants to the United States before 1940.Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.

Kayal, Philip and Kathleen Benson, eds. 2002. A Community of Many Worlds: Arab
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McCarus, Ernest. The Development of Arab-American Identity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

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Orfalea, Gregory, Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab Americans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.

Orfalea, Gregory. 2006. The Arab Americans: A History. Northampton, Massachusetts:
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Read, Jen’nan Ghazal. 2003. “The Sources of Gender Role Attitudes among Christian
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Samhan, Helen. Arab American Organizations and Political Activism. In Arab American Encyclopedia. Detroit: Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Service (ACCESS), 2000.

Samhan, Helen. Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience. In Arabs in America: Building a New Future,Michael Suleiman, ed. Philadelphia: Temple
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Olive Branch Press.

Shakir, Evelyn. Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American women in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

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Temple University Press, 1999.

Waugh, Earle H., Baha Abu-Laban, and Regula B. Qureshi (eds.).The Muslim Community in North America. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1983.

Wormser, Richard. American Islam; Growing up Muslim in America. New York: Walker and Comapny, 1994

Younis, Adele L., The Coming of Arabic-Speaking People to the U.S. New York: Center For Migration Studies, 1995

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Zogby, John. Arab America Today: A Demographic Profile of Arab Americans.
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