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Retells a number of significant events in U.S. history as they have happened to the country's large and growing community of Arab Americans, including the 1973 oil embargo, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Oklahoma City bombing.
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The history of Arab settlement in the United States stretches back nearly as far as the history of America itself. For the first time, Alia Malek brings this history to life. In each of eleven spellbinding chapters, she inhabits the voice and life of one Arab American, at one time-stopping historical moment. Separately, the chapters in A Country Called Amreeka transport us; together, they offer a vital piece of the mosaic of our American history and a fresh, urgent, and exciting perspective on a teeming community whom it has become essential for us to understand.
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