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A community of many worlds : Arab Americans in New York City / Museum of the City of New York ; edited by Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal.
- Title
- A community of many worlds : Arab Americans in New York City / Museum of the City of New York ; edited by Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal.
- Publication
- New York : The Museum ; [Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
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- Description
- xxviii, 280 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Arab Americans in New York City
- Subject
- Arab Americans > New York (State) > New York > History > Congresses
- Arab Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > Congresses
- Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > History > Congresses
- Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > Congresses
- Arab countries > Emigration and immigration > History > Congresses
- New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History > Congresses
- New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Essays
- Note
- Papers originally presented at a conference initiating the project "A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City" organized by the Museum of the City of New York.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-268) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- New York : the mother colony / Alixa Naff -- The Syrian-Lebanese community of South Ferry from its origin to 1977 / Mary Ann Haick DiNapoli -- Impressions of New York City by early Arab immigrants / Michael W. Suleiman -- Rare sights : images of early Arab immigration to New York City / Jonathan Friedlander -- My mother's zither / Gregory Orfalea -- Cultural traditions of early Arab immigrants to New York / Stanley Rashid -- Being Arab American in New York : a personal story / Peter J. Awn -- So, who are we? Who am I? / Philip M. Kayal.
- Inventing and re-inventing the Arab American identity / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The changing Arab New York community / Louis Abdellatif Cristillo and Lorraine C. Minnite -- Arab families in New York public schools / Paula Hajar -- The Syrian Jews of Brooklyn / Walter P. Zenner -- NY-MASJID : the mosques of New York / Jerrilynn Dodds -- Arab Americans : their arts and New York City, 1970-2000 / Inea Bushnaq -- Hollywoood's Muslim Arabs / Jack G. Shaheen -- Lebanese women : the Beirut-New York connection / Evelyn Shakir -- Being Arab American in New York : a personal story / Abdeen Jabara.
- ISBN
- 0815607393 (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002004312
- OCLC
- 49415875
- SCSB-10120912
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library