Contemporary Socioligy Review: Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

The post-9/11 era has seen a flurry of academic interest in the Muslim diaspora to North America and Western Europe. Although based on research in the 1990s, Nadine Naber’s Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism is representative of a stream of critical writings that have been prominent in this literature. Indeed, to those familiar with the burgeoning scholarship on Muslim diasporas, the theoretical themes of her book will not come as too much of a surprise. Rather than new conceptual insights, the book’s particular strength lies in the multilayered portrait it offers of the history and development of Arab American community life.