The Gulf Within
Subtitle: Canadian Arabs, Racism and the Gulf War
Edition: first
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Format: bound; pbk
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781550283471; 9781550283457
Subjects: politics, international relations, multiculturalism, sociology, media, racism
Genres: non-fiction
First sentence: To the Arabs and Muslims of Canada, in the hope that they unite and advance the struggle of Canada's visible minorities; and 
To my uncle, the late Professor A. A. A. Fyzee, a scholar par excellence of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, who following words began my unceasing love affair with Arabs and the Middle East:
I would invite my friends to go into the burning sands and be stunned by them; to see the dawn in the Syrian desert and the sun rising above the Nile, silhouetting the Mohamed Aly Mosque in Cairo; a little later to hear the call to prayer in the myriad-voiced radio or at the Ummayyad Mosque at Damascus; then to enter a suk and drink black coffee in the tower of Babel or Fishawy; thence to do business and p ay five liras for what was worth one and be fooled ... and laugh at oneself; then to eat kebab and have a fertile discussion ... about philosophy, law, politics, as unreal and devoid of practical wisdom as the doctrine of Maya...
Description: This book tells one of the most important and neglected stories of the Gulf War (1990-91) - the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians in Canada during the conflict.  When the  Canadian government went to war against Iraq, many Canadians of Arab or Muslim background found that they were being identified with the enemy. On the street, in workplaces, in schools and in the media they became targets of ignorance, hostility and paranoia. Many key institutions in Canadian society identified Arab and Muslim Canadians with the enemy government of Iraq. To write this book journalist Zuhair Kashmeri travelled across Canada and interviewed many Arab and Muslim Canadians. He tells the personal stories of nine families whose experiences illustrate how the Gulf War affected their communities. The nine case studies illustrate the reaction of different social institutions, including schools, the media, police, municipal governments, the work place, and churches. The Gulf Within also includes a detailed discussion of the actions of police and security services who targetted Canadian Arabs and Muslims during the first Gulf War.
Table of contents: class: subsection
label: 1; label: 1
pagenum: 1
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title: The Media Imam; label: 2
pagenum: 16
class: part
title: The Token Arab; title: Educating the Educators
pagenum: 28
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label: 3; title: A Heritage of Discontent
pagenum: 39
class: part
label: 4; title: To Serve and Protect
pagenum: 49
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label: 5; label: 6
pagenum: 59
class: part
title: Maintaining the Right; title: The Business of Terrorism
pagenum: 70
class: part
label: 7; title: The Symptoms of Fear
pagenum: 78
class: part
label: 8; title: Staking the Mosques
pagenum: 89
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label: 9; class: part
label: 2; label: 10
pagenum: 99
class: part
title: When CSIS Calls; label: 11
pagenum: 113
class: part
title: Making the News; title: The Crumbling Mosaic
pagenum: 125
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label: 12; pagenum: 133
class: part
title: Sources