Books for Arab American Heritage Month

April is Arab American Heritage Month! Check out the books below to learn more about Arab American history and culture. Explore the Arab American Institute website (scroll to the bottom) for information about political and social activism, civil liberties, census data, perspectives on Palestine, and more.

Recent Books:

• Arab Americans in the United States: Immigration, Culture and Health
  by Shaikha H. Al-Kuwari, 2024
• The Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings: Towards Reconstruction, Democracy and Peace
  by Samir Makdisi and Raimundo Soto, 2023
• Between Two Moons: A Novel
  by Aisha Abdel Gawad, 2023
• Evil Eye: A Novel
  by Etaf Rum, 2023
• Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us
  by Joseph Geha, 2023
• The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
  by Khaled A. Beydoun, 2023
• Non-Essential Work
  by Omar Sakr, 2023
• We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
  by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, 2023

More Books:

• All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture
  by Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu, 2021
• Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-representation
  by Waleed F. Mahdi, 2020
• Arab Intellectuals and American Power : Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East
  by M.D. Walhout, 2021
• Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction
  by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa, 2020
• Fugitive Atlas: Poems
  by Khaled Mattawa, 2020
• Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
  by Ghassan Zeineddine, 2022
• History of Arab Americans : Exploring Diverse Roots
  by Aminah Al-Deen, 2019
• A History of Arab Graphic Design
  by Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, 2020
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: A Novel
  by Noor Naga, 2022
• Islam in America: Exploring the Issues
  by Craig Considine, 2019
• Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile
  by Loren Lybarger, 2020
• The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq
  by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, 2021
• Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
  by Markus Universität Münster Schmitz, Et al., 2020
• The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
  by Sahar F. Aziz, 2022
• A Woman is No Man: A Novel
  by Etaf Rum, 2019
• The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam
  by Tazeen M. Ali, 2022