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Title A community of many worlds : Arab Americans in New York City / Museum of the City of New York ; edited by Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal.

Publication Info. New York : Museum of the City of New York ; Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2002.

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 Moore Stacks  F128.9.A65 C66 2002    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxviii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Papers originally presented at conference initiating the project "A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City" organized by the Museum of the City of New York.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
Contents Pt. 1. Early Arab immigration to New York. New York: the mother colony / Alixa Naff ; The Syrian-Lebanese community of South Ferry from its origin to 1977 / Mary Ann Haick DiNapoli ; Impressions of New York City by early Arab immigrants / Michael W. Suleiman ; Rare sights: images of early Arab immigration to New York City / Jonathan Friedlander ; My mother's zither / Gregory Orfalea ; Cultural traditions of early Arab immigrants to New York / Stanley Rashid ; Being Arab American in New York: a personal story / Peter J. Awn ; So, who are we? Who am I? / Philip M. Kayal -- Pt. 2. Arab New Yorkers in the late twentieth century. Inventing and re-inventing the Arab American identity / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad ; The changing Arab New York community / Louis Abdellatif Cristillo and Lorraine C. Minnite ; Arab families in New York public schools / Paula Hajar ; The Syrian Jews of Brooklyn / Walter P. Zenner ; NY-MASJID: the mosques of New York / Jerrilynn Dodds ; Arab Americans: their arts and New York City, 1970-2000 / Inea Bushnaq ; Hollywoood's Muslim Arabs / Jack G. Shaheen ; Lebanese women: the Beirut-New York connection / Evelyn Shakir ; Being Arab American in New York: a personal story / Abdeen Jabara.
Subject Arab Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Congresses.
Arab Americans.
New York (State) -- New York.
History.
Arab Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Social conditions.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Congresses.
Immigrants.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Arab countries -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses.
Arab countries.
Emigration and immigration.
New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses.
National Book Committee.
New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Benson, Kathleen.
Kayal, Philip M., 1943-
Museum of the City of New York.
ISBN 0815607393 cloth alkaline paper