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Arab-americans (23 found)
Isma is a religious Muslim who reads the Qur’an and prays daily. She also loves punk rock. (full text)
When Zaineb arrives in the U.S. from Pakistan, she faces pressure to abandon her cultural beliefs. (full text)
As a Muslim teen who dresses traditionally, Sara becomes an object of attention after 9/11 and gets harassed on the street. (full text)
Mohamad has three strikes against him when he goes through airport customs: he's young, he carries a Lebanese passport, and he's a Shiite Muslim.
Oumou's best friend is pushed into an arranged marriage at the age of 14, dashing the girls' hopes of going to college together. (full text)
Orubba belongs to a family where the women are expected to cook, clean, and raise a family. But she longs to attend college.
After growing up in Pakistan, Kanwal revels in the intellectual creativity and freedom of her American high school.
As a Muslim youth, Abanty has become self-conscious and fearful after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She worries that she and her family will be the targets of revenge. (full text)
Maria decides to start wearing a hijab—a headscarf covering her hair, neck, ears, and shoulders—to affirm her Muslim faith.
Sadia is worried that her friend’s arranged marriage will prevent her from finishing her education.
Sabah examines a government policy that requires some immigrants (mostly from Muslim countries) to register with immigration offices.
Abanty respects her parents and accepts their rules about not dating—but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Mohammad’s family is Kurdish, an ethnic group without a country of their own.
Nine years after leaving Iran with her mother, Sarvenaz still fears the oppression in that country—and the father she left behind there.
In the wake of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Mohamad documents some of the ways the news media vilify Arabs, and the discrimination and violence that often result.
Zeba feels immigrants should put their American identity ahead of their original heritage.
At 14, Hanify joins the Afghanistan resistance and narrowly escapes capture. He hides out for almost two years, then is interrogated by the secret police before a bribe wins his release. He leaves behind his country, family, and friends in coming to the U.S.
Orubba describes her close relationship with Layla, a family friend who once worked with Orubba's dad. (full text)
The author, a Muslim girl from Africa, secretly disobeys her father's orders to wear the hijab, despite potentially drastic consequences. (full text)
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