Author: Miriam Qamar

Miriam Qamar grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides and works. She studied His- tory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the American University in Cairo. She is a collective member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in addition to another Bay Area collective called Advance the Struggle.
Arab America: Moving Forward and Going Back

Arab America: Moving Forward and Going Back

  The concept of organization is central to any study of the contemporary history of Arab organizing in the Bay Area. Nadine Naber’s Arab America surveys the various forms of organization associated with immigration patterns, social rup- tures, reactions to state repression, identity, and religious-based liberatory politics within Arab and Muslim organizing from the 1970s…

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