Books for Arab American Heritage Month

April is Arab American Heritage Month! Check out the books below to learn more about Arab American history and culture. Explore the Arab American Institute website (scroll to the bottom) for information about political and social activism, civil liberties, census data, perspectives on Palestine, and more.

Recent Books:

• American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
  by Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, 2024
• Arab Americans in the United States: Immigration, Culture and Health
  by Shaikha H. Al-Kuwari, 2024
• Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia
  by Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, 2024
• Classical Poems by Arab Women: An Anthology
  by Abdullah al-Udhari and Laura Maggi, 2024
• Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another
  by Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, 2024
• Martyr!
  by Kaveh Akbar, 2024
• Muslim Prayer in American Public Life
  by Rose Aslan, 2024
• The Queer Arab Glossary
  by Marwan Kaabour and Haitham Haddad, 2024
• Self-Mythology: Poems
  by Saba Keramati, 2024
• Umbilical Discord
  by Rawand Mustafa and Trish Salah, 2024

More Books:

• The Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings: Towards Reconstruction, Democracy and Peace
  by Samir Makdisi and Raimundo Soto, 2023
• Between Two Moons: A Novel
  by Aisha Abdel Gawad, 2023
• Evil Eye: A Novel
  by Etaf Rum, 2023
• Kitchen Arabic: How My Family Came to America and the Recipes We Brought with Us
  by Joseph Geha, 2023
• The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
  by Khaled A. Beydoun, 2023
• Non-Essential Work
  by Omar Sakr, 2023
• We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
  by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, 2023