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BOOK
Title When we were Arabs : a Jewish family's forgotten history / Massoud Hayoun
Imprint New York : The New Press, 2019
©2019

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket  305.8 Hayoun    DUE 24-04-11  ---
Descript 304 sidor illustrations 23 cm
Note "A vivid account of Massoud Hayoun's grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, France, Palestine, and Los Angeles, in which he reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity"--The publisher
Includes bibliographical references
The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents? lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family?s Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an?Arab? didn?t mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar?s son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family?s story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award?winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle
Subject Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth
Judar
Etniska grupper
Mizrahim -- Biography
North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography
Cultural fusion -- Egypt
Nordafrika
Jews -- Identity
Mellanöstern
Biografier
Biographies.
Egypten
Biografi
Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
Classmark 305.892/40620922
Lz Hayoun, Massoud
ISBN/ISSN 9781620974162 Inbunden
1620974169 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781620974582
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