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Gregory Orfalea's new and definitive work spans a century-and-a-half of the life of Arab immigrants and their descendants in the United States. In The Arab Americans: A History, has marshaled over 150 interviews and 25 years of research to tell the story that begins in 1856, when camel driver Hajdi Ali (or Hi Jolly) was hired by Jefferson Davis to cut a "camel trail" across the Southwest, and continues through the 2005 arrest of a former Virginia hight school valedictorian accused of plotting with al-Qaeda. Once seen as the "benevolent stranger", as the author points out, today Arab Americans are the "the malevolent stranger." His book, however is an assault on such ignorance, both celebration and warning.
The Arab Americans is the culmination of a life's work, a landmark in the history of what it means to be an American. It is also the history of a community uniquely repressed in American scholarship, history, literature and politics. The Arab Americans fills a sizable void, and it could not be more timely. Orfalea's work is like light in a dark tunnel--facts, not sterotypes; people, not shadows; the vibrant world of a lost American experience come to life.
Orfalea brings to this work an historian's love of meticulous and telling detail, a poet's ear, and a novelist's sense of story. The cumulative effect is symphonic and its arrival none too soon.
Gregory Orfalea is the author of several books and is also the director of the Center for Writing at Pitzer College, where he teaches creative nonfiction and the short story.
Softcover, 9" x 6", published by Interlink Publishing Group, 440 pages, Black & White Photos.
The Arab Americans is the culmination of a life's work, a landmark in the history of what it means to be an American. It is also the history of a community uniquely repressed in American scholarship, history, literature and politics. The Arab Americans fills a sizable void, and it could not be more timely. Orfalea's work is like light in a dark tunnel--facts, not sterotypes; people, not shadows; the vibrant world of a lost American experience come to life.
Orfalea brings to this work an historian's love of meticulous and telling detail, a poet's ear, and a novelist's sense of story. The cumulative effect is symphonic and its arrival none too soon.
Gregory Orfalea is the author of several books and is also the director of the Center for Writing at Pitzer College, where he teaches creative nonfiction and the short story.
Softcover, 9" x 6", published by Interlink Publishing Group, 440 pages, Black & White Photos.
