The state of Michigan hosts one of the largest and most diverse Arab American populations in the United States. As the third largest ethnic population in the st

In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit.

Arab Americans have been an integral part of Detroit's history since the 1880s. Early Arab immigrants worked as peddlers, grocers, and unskilled laborers, first

Is citizenship simply a legal status or does it describe a sense of belonging to a national community? For Arab Americans, these questions took on new urgency a

This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.