Arabs in the Americas

Darcy A. Zabel is a Phi Beta Kappa cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She earned her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, where she was the English Coordinator for the Center for Academic Programs’ Student Support Services Pre-Collegiate experience, a program designed to increase access to higher education for high-potential students who come from underrepresented ethnic or economic backgrounds and/or are first-generation college students. Zabel’s research and publication interests include American literature, world literature in translation, creative writing, literary theory, and the multiethnic literature of the United States. Zabel is currently Associate Professor of English at Friends University, where she also serves as the Vice Chair for the Religion and Humanities Division.

• Darcy A. Zabel: Introduction. The Arab Diaspora in the Americas: Latin America, the United States, and Canada – Carol N. Fadda-Conrey: The Passage from West to South: Arabs between the Old and New World – John Tofik Karam: Margins of Memory on the Rua 25 de Março: Constructing the Syrian-Lebanese Past in São Paulo, Brazil – Hani Ismaeal Elayyan: The Syrian World in the New World: The Contextual Beginnings of Arab American Literature and the Part It Played in Identity Formation – Kirk Scott: Multiple Identities: Lebanese Arab Christians in the American West – Nader Ayish: Stereotypes, Popular Culture, and School Curricula: How Arab American Muslim High School Students Perceive and Cope with Being the "Other" – Sharon Lopez/Katharine S. Speer: Arabs in Honduras: Immigration, Integration, and the Palestinian Presence – Steven Salaita: Gazing East from the Americas: Assessing the Cultural Significance of Modern Arab American Literature – Amira Jarmakani: Belly Dancing for Liberation: A Critical Interpretation of Reclamation Rhetoric in the American Belly Dance Community – Carolyn Speer Schmidt: Not Just Disney: Destructive Stereotypes of Arabs in Children’s Literature – Omar Alghabra: Arab? Muslim? Canadian? A Question of Identity – Deirdre King Hainsworth: Apologies and Amnesias: Protestant Engagement with Arab American Communities since 9/11 – Rula Sharkawi: Being Arab: Growing Up Canadian.