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". . . this volume has accomplished an important task kin laying the groundwork for future studies of Arab communities in Detroit and elsewhere in America. We come away from this book with a sense of both the dimensions, diversity, and historical and generational diversions that shape life in Arab Detroit and of the development of some of its key community institutions and ethnic enterprises. -- ""Journal of American Ethnic History"" In Arab Detroit, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock have made an important contribution to immigrant studies, while providing a work that is easily accessibleto the general public. -- ""Michigan Historical Review"" Mixing analytical pieces with evocative personal accounts and poetry, [Arab Detroit] stresses the diversity of Detroit's Arab population, breaking down stereotypes about Arabs in general and those in Detroit in particular. The personal voices speak with a freshness and immediacy, and the volume as a whole has a clear theoretical edge over much of the work being done in immigration studies, religious studies, and Muslim American studies. --Karen Leonard ""University of California, Irvine"" There has never been a more urgent need for understanding [the Arab American] community. Nabeel Abraham's and Andrew Shyrock's book provides a much needed portrait of its most vital centers. The collection as a whole [presents] a larger picture of Metro Detroit as a zone where several cultural groups are in some ways mutually impacting. Shyrock and Abraham do a good job of covering the range and areas of these interactions. Sally Howell's, Anne Rasmussen's, and William and Yvonne Lockwood's respective articles on artisanship, music, and food are particularly informative . . . Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream is essential reading for anyone interested in Arab American social dynamics and in ethnic America in general. -- ""Mattawa; Michigan Quarterly Review"" This book is by far the best on the topic. While there have been studies of Detroit and Arab Americans generally, there is no such in-depth analysis, from so many angles (food, music, religion, identity, politics, etc.) and onso many different Arab ethnic groups. --Phillip Kayal ""Seton Hall University"""

In Arab Detroit, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock have made an important contribution to immigrant studies, while providing a work that is easily accessibleto the general public.--Michigan Historical Review There has never been a more urgent need for understanding [the Arab American] community. Nabeel Abraham's and Andrew Shyrock's book provides a much needed portrait of its most vital centers. The collection as a whole [presents] a larger picture of Metro Detroit as a zone where several cultural groups are in some ways mutually impacting. Shyrock and Abraham do a good job of covering the range and areas of these interactions. Sally Howell's, Anne Rasmussen's, and William and Yvonne Lockwood's respective articles on artisanship, music, and food are particularly informative . . . Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream is essential reading for anyone interested in Arab American social dynamics and in ethnic America in general.--Mattawa; Michigan Quarterly Review . . . this volume has accomplished an important task kin laying the groundwork for future studies of Arab communities in Detroit and elsewhere in America. We come away from this book with a sense of both the dimensions, diversity, and historical and generational diversions that shape life in Arab Detroit and of the development of some of its key community institutions and ethnic enterprises.--Journal of American Ethnic History This book is by far the best on the topic. While there have been studies of Detroit and Arab Americans generally, there is no such in-depth analysis, from so many angles (food, music, religion, identity, politics, etc.) and onso many different Arab ethnic groups.--Phillip Kayal Seton Hall University Mixing analytical pieces with evocative personal accounts and poetry, [Arab Detroit] stresses the diversity of Detroit's Arab population, breaking down stereotypes about Arabs in general and those in Detroit in particular. The personal voices speak with a freshness and immediacy, and the volume as a whole has a clear theoretical edge over much of the work being done in immigration studies, religious studies, and Muslim American studies.--Karen Leonard University of California, Irvine

. . . this volume has accomplished an important task kin laying the groundwork for future studies of Arab communities in Detroit and elsewhere in America. We come away from this book with a sense of both the dimensions, diversity, and historical and generational diversions that shape life in Arab Detroit and of the development of some of its key community institutions and ethnic enterprises.--Journal of American Ethnic History In Arab Detroit, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock have made an important contribution to immigrant studies, while providing a work that is easily accessibleto the general public.--Michigan Historical Review Mixing analytical pieces with evocative personal accounts and poetry, [Arab Detroit] stresses the diversity of Detroit's Arab population, breaking down stereotypes about Arabs in general and those in Detroit in particular. The personal voices speak with a freshness and immediacy, and the volume as a whole has a clear theoretical edge over much of the work being done in immigration studies, religious studies, and Muslim American studies.--Karen Leonard University of California, Irvine There has never been a more urgent need for understanding [the Arab American] community. Nabeel Abraham's and Andrew Shyrock's book provides a much needed portrait of its most vital centers. The collection as a whole [presents] a larger picture of Metro Detroit as a zone where several cultural groups are in some ways mutually impacting. Shyrock and Abraham do a good job of covering the range and areas of these interactions. Sally Howell's, Anne Rasmussen's, and William and Yvonne Lockwood's respective articles on artisanship, music, and food are particularly informative . . . Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream is essential reading for anyone interested in Arab American social dynamics and in ethnic America in general.--Mattawa; Michigan Quarterly Review This book is by far the best on the topic. While there have been studies of Detroit and Arab Americans generally, there is no such in-depth analysis, from so many angles (food, music, religion, identity, politics, etc.) and onso many different Arab ethnic groups.--Phillip Kayal Seton Hall University

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Nabeel Abraham teaches anthropology at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, where he also serves as director of the Honors Program. He is co-editor of Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-American Communities (Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University, 1983). Andrew Shryock is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (University of California Press, 1997).

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