The Arab Americans (The New Americans)
"These titles offer high school and college students and in-depth look at Salvadoran Americans and Arab Americans, from their history in El Savador and the Middle East and North Africa, respectively, to their adjustment issues and communities in the United States today. (Reviewed in conjunctions withThe Salvadoran AmericanS≪/i>)"-MultiCultural Review"Interest in Arab Americans has grown exponentially since 9/11, resulting in new works trying to bring awareness and understanding of the Arab American community. Given the internal diversity and extensive historical immigration of persons from the Arab world, accomplishing this is no easy task. Kayyali tries to do so, building on the corpus of previous research and writing on the topic….[t]he book is better than others on the market, especially in terms of trying to draw attention to the diversity of the Arab American community and contradicting the notion of Arab American as a monolithic entity. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and public libraries."-Choice