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Arab American
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They think we’re bad people, Habibti, my father said, and always continued, but if they get to know us, they’ll see thats not true.
His eagerness to resist our poor reputation made sense to me. It hurt to imagine my gentle family so accused. But I internalized his words as an instruction to make my life an advertisement for our humanity.
It was an objective that seemed at odds with Palestinian resistance. In the pursuit of liberal empathy, merit was afforded to those who proved themselves civi
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― The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
― The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
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If you drop her, she’ll break, but she’ll cut you, too. She’s tough and tender, enraged and exhausted, withdrawn and outgoing, a pessimist brimming with humanist hope.
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― How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
― How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
