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Dec 1, 2021 · Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted...
The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves.
- Introduction
- Veils
- Honor Killings
- Miss USA
- Challenges for Arab Women in Arab World and in USA
My talk is focused on the perception of Arab women in the United States and Europe, as well as the reality. I’m going to start by saying that I’m not a sociologist, a legal scholar, or a political scientist. I’m an English professor and a fiction writer, I’m the daughter of Arab immigrants to the US, and I’m a person who’s been consistently puzzled...
The veil as an Arab or Muslim woman’s issue is in the news all the time. Recently, the government of France banned women’s ability to wear the full face veil in public; the claim by the Sarkozy administration is that the veil denies Muslim women their equal rights and that equality is a French value. This argument makes sense, but only if you beli...
Like the veil, the practice of honor killings is not Islamic in origin either. It even predates Christianity, if one considers the story in the New testament , in John 8, in which Jesus defends a woman who is about to be stoned to death for adultery. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her st...
A lighter topic now: how Americans perceive Arab women. A couple of years ago, something interesting happened in America. Miss Rima Fakih won the Miss USA competition, a pageant that is owned by Donald Trump. She was lauded as the first Arab American Miss USA.... This was a big deal. An Arab girl wins big! Until it was noted a few days later that t...
Arab women faces numerous challenges in many parts of the Arab world. One of my main points here is that the challenges they face may seem different to some people because they are in the context of a different culture, but they are not much different than the challenges women face all over the world: they face violence, often at the hands of their...
ARABIC FOR ALL “Arabic in the Hands of Our Children” is one of the latest series in the field of teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, targeting males, females, youngsters and youth. This series focuses on communicative language; In it, learners learn a large number of common functional Arabic structures, and in it they learn more
Arab and Arab American Feminisms is based on “theory of the flesh,” or the powerful narrative based lens for critically analyzing our social and political world. This anthology guides you through nuanced understandings of Arab perspectives and identities, presenting an unparalleled breadth of experience.
collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching A. abic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational enti.
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The collection builds upon a long tradition of Arab and Arab American feminist thought and practice, hailing predecessors like Joe Kadi's 1994 edited anthology, Food for Our Grandmothers , and Evelyn Shakir's 1997 Bint Arab.
