Arab American History Month

April is Arab American Heritage Month.  We would like to highlight and recognize the contributions made by Arab Americans to our lives by sharing related and recently added titles to our collection. These books are from our patron recommendations and will be available at our suggested reading desk. Our thanks to our patrons for their recommendations.

• Anbara Salam Khalidi (translated by Tarif Khalidi), Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist

• Edward Said, Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

• Edward Said, After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives              

• Evelyn Shakir, Bint Arab

• Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

• Hala Lababidi Buck, Bridge Between Worlds: A Lebanese-Arab-American Woman’s Journey

• Ilan Pappe, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied  

• Naomi Shihab Nye, The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

• Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

• Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World

• Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

• Moises F. Salinas, Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Rashid Khalidi,  The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

• Riad Sattouf, El Arabe del Futuro                  

Reminder: We will be closed from this Wednesday, April 16 to Sunday, April 20 for Spring Break. We hope you enjoy the long weekend. Remember when we are closed, you can always leave your books in the green box outside of the library.  

Digital Lending: We are open 24/7 at our digital branch. Borrowing is easy!  Download the Libby app, find your library (San Juan Community Library) and enter your library membership number (your phone number without the area code and hyphens).  Enjoy!