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Article: BINT ARAB: ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.
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- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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BINT ARAB: ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES. By Evelyn Shakir. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997. 226 pages. Softbound, $22.95.
Evelyn Shakir's account of Arab and Arab American women's experience in the United States encompasses a broad and highly varied historical period. The book is divided into three sections: The first section deals with the predominantly Lebanese women who arrived in the United States during the period 1875-1925. The second section is called "From Second Generation to Third" and raises the issue of how an increasingly heated foreign policy debate stemming from the establishment of Israel created a climate of specifically ...