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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's...
8) Mirage
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
11) The amateur spy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Former aid worker Freeman Lockhart is blackmailed into spying on his former Jordanian friend and co-worker Omar al-Baroody in order to prevent an act of terrorism against Washington's highest power brokers.
12) Big red lollipop
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A Muslim-American teen goes into denial mode about her role in an out-of-control party that occurred during Ramadan, a situation that escalates until she incurs damage that is harder to repair, forcing her to come to terms with her true self. --Publisher
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are hoping to go to the Magnet Academy for their middle school years, instead of Harbortown Elementary/Middle School; but when a new girl Dana Denver starts tormenting Farah and her younger brother, Samir, she decides she can not leave Samir to face the bully alone, especially since the adults and even Allie do not seem to be taking the matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which...
17) Here we are now
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Language
English
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Description
While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the suburbs of Seattle to the villas of Jordan and the refugee camps of the West Bank, Where Jasmine Blooms is an emotional journey of love and selfhood, telling the story of the Mansours, a sprawling Arab American family, and the women married into it.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxi, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four out of ten Americans say they dislike Muslims, according to a Gallup poll. "Muslims, " a blogger wrote on www.freerepublic.com, "don't belong in America." In a lively, funny, and revealing riposte to these sentiments, journalist Jonathan Curiel offers a tour through the little-known Islamic past, and present, of American culture. From highbrow to pop, from lighthearted to profound, this book reveals the Islamic and Arab influences before our...
20) Zeitoun
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.
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