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| Category | Book Reviews |
| sub-title | Gender, Violence, and Belonging |
| authors | Rosemary Sayigh |
| publication | Syracuse University Press |
| publish_date | 2011 |
Arab and Arab-American Feminisms is an explosively oppositional book that crosses sanctified boundaries of nationality, religion, sect, ethnicity, class and sexuality to challenge America’s ‘war on terror’ in both its external and internal forms. The book was conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, when American hostility towards Arabs and Muslims was being made manifest in actions as weird as a school principal stripping a 16-year-old schoolgirl of her ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt and as crude as the message ‘Get the f*** out of the USA … NOW!!!!’, sent to scholars who denounced the Israeli war on Gaza. The editors have brought together a cross-section of articulate women – academics, poets, community activists, performance artists, fiction writers – to tell their experiences of silencing and ‘speaking back’. These personal narratives are held together by a cogent historical critique of American racism and a structure that highlights themes such as ‘Living with/in empire’, ‘Activist communities’ and ‘Home and homelands’.
