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ARAB AMERICAN LITERATURE AND RESOURCES FOR USE IN SCHOOLS

Rhonda Tabbah, M.A.

rhonda.tabbah@gmail.com

The following resources are adapted from Al-Hazza, T.C. and Bucher, K.T. (2008). Building Arab Americans cultural identity and

acceptance with childrens literature. The Reading Teacher, 62(3), 210-219.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ARAB AMERICANS FOR TEACHERS

Print Resources

Al-Hazza, T.C., & Bucher, K.T. (2008). Books about the Middle East: Selecting and using them with children andadolescents. Columbus, OH: Linworth.

Al-Hazza, T.C, & Lucking, R, (2005). The minority of suspicion: Arab Americans. Multicultural Review, 14(3), 32-38. Haboush, K.L. (2007). Working with Arab American families: Culturally competent practice for school psychologists.

Psychology in the Schools, 44(2), 183-198. doi:10.1002/pits, 20215

Kayyali, R.A. (2006), The Arab Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Nydell, M.K. (2005). Understanding Arabs: A guide for modern times (4th ed.). Yarmouth, ME:Intercultural. Rochman, H. (2004). Growing up in the Middle East. Booklist, 101(7), 647. Sperry, C. (2006). Seeking truth in the social studies classroom: Media literacy, critical thinking, and teaching about the

Middle East. Special Education, 70(1), 37-43.

Who are the Arab Americans? (2001). Curriculum Review, 41(4), 8. Wingfield, M., & Karman, B. (2002). Arab stereotypes and American educators. In E. Lee, D. Menkart, & M. Okazawa-Rey (Eds.), Beyond heroes and holidays: A practical guide to K-12 Anti-racist multicultural education and staff development (pp. 132-136). Washington, DC:Teaching for Change.Internet Resources

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, www.adc.org Arab American National Museum, www.arabamericanmuseum.org Arab World and Islamic Resources (publishes various materials that are useful for teachers and library media specialists),

www.awaironline.org

Hidden Bias Test on Arab Muslims. Demonstration at implicit.harvard.edu/implicit Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC). www.meoc.us Rodseth, L., Howell, S., & Shryock, A. (n.d.). Arab World Mosaic: A Curriculum Supplement for Elementary Teachers.

www.arabamericanmuseum.org/Pubiications.id.36.htm

Teaching Tolerance. Who are the Arab Americans? www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?p=0&ar=155&pa=3SUGGESTED BOOKS ON ARABS AND ARAB AMERICANS FOR CHILDREN

Books on Arabs

Fiction

Heide, F.P., & Gilliand, J.H. (1990). The day of Ahmed's secret. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. Heide, F.P., & Gilliand, J.H. (1992). Sami and the time of troubles. New York: Clarion. Heide, F.P., & Gilliand, J.H. (1999). The house of wisdom. New York: DK Children. Lewin, T. (1998). The storytellers. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. London, J. (1997). All, child of the desert. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. Marston, E. (2005). Figs and fate; Stones about growing up in the Arab world today. New York: George Braziller. Schami, R. (1990). A hand full of stars. New York: Dutton. Stolz, J. (2004). The shadows of Ghadames. New York: Delacorte.Folk literature

Ben-Ezer, E. (1997). Hosni the dreamer: An Arabian tale. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hickox, R. (1998). The golden sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella. New York: Holiday House. Johnson-Davies, D. (1996), Maarouf and the dream caravan. Cairo, Egypt: Hoopoe Books. Johnson-Davies, D. (1997). Stories from the Arab past. Cairo, Egypt: Hoopoe Books. Johnson-Davies, D. (2005), Goha the wise fool. New York: Philomel Books. Kimmel, E.A. (1996), Tate of All Baba & the forty thieves: A story from the Arabian night New York: Holiday House. MacDonald, M.R., Muhawi, I., & Kana'nah, S. (2006). Tunjurt Tunjur! Tunjur! Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish. Shepard, A. (1995). The enchanted storks: A tale of Bagdad. New York: Clarion. Zeman, L. (1992). Gflgamesh the king. Montreal, QC: Tundra Books. Zeman, L. (1999). Sindbad: From the tales of the thousand and one nights. Toronto, ON: Tundra Books.

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Zeman, L. (2001). Sindbad in the land of the giants. Toronto, ON: Tundra Books.Nonfiction

David, A. (2006). Lebanon in the news: Past, present, and future. Berkeley Heights: NJ, MyReportLinks.com Books. Demi. (2003). Muhammad. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books. Dutton, R. (1985). An Arab family. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner. Harkonen, R. (1991). The children of Egypt Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda. Haskins, J. (1987). Count your way through the Arab world. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda. Korman, S. (2003). Kuwait. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. Sheheen, D. (1985). A child's picture dictionary, English/Arabic. New York: Adama Book Stamaty, M.A. (2004). Alia's mission: Saving the books of Iraq. New York: Knopf. Winter, J. (2005). Librarian of Basra: A true story from Iraq. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Wolf, B. (2003). Coming to America: A Muslim family's story. New York: Lee & Low.Books on Arab Americans

Fiction

Bunting, E. (2006). One green apple. New York: Clarion. Gray, N. (1988). A balloon for Grandad. New York: Orchard. Matze, C.S. (1999). The stars in my Geddoh's sky. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman. Morris, A. (2003). Grandma Hekmat remembers: An Egyptian--American family story. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook. Nye, N.S. (1994). Sitti's secrets. New York: Four Winds Press.

Shefelman, J. (1992), A peddler's dream. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Nonfiction

Amen, A., & Ramey, D. (Eds.). (2000). Arab American encyclopedia. Detroit, Ml: Thompson Gale. Anderson, M.D. (2007). Arab Americans. Milwaukee, Wl: World Almanac Library. Hall, L. (1999). Arab American biography. Detroit, Ml: Thompson Gale. Hall, L. (2000). Arab American voices. Detroit, Ml: Thompson Gale. Schur, J.B. (2005). The Arabs: Coming to America. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.The following resources are adapted from Wingfield, M. (2006). Arab Americans: Into the multicultural mainstream.Equity

and Excellence in Education, 39, 253-266.

RESOURCES FOR ARAB AMERICAN HISTORY

Ameri, A., & Ramey, D. (Eds.). (2000). Arab American encyclopedia. Detroit: The Gale Group. Naff, A. (1985). Becoming American: The early Arab immigrant experience. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Naff, A. (1998). The Arab Americans. Philadelphia: Chelsea House.

HISTORY RESOURCES APPROPRIATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AGES AND OLDER

Schur, J.B. (2004a). The Arab Americans. Detroit: The GaleGroup. Schur, J. B. (2004b). The Arabs (Coming to America). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven. Hall, L. (Ed.). (1999). Arab American voices. Detroit: Gale Group. Hall, L., & Hall, B. K. (Eds.). (1999). Arab American biography. Detroit: Gale Group. This book has information about

famous Arab American people such as Tony Shalhoub, Paula Abdul, and Ralph Nader.

Kayyali, R. (2006). The Arab Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 100 questions and answers about Arab Americans (n.d.).

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:L5NlMQnxDUIJ:www.freepress.com/legacy/jobspage/arabs/index.htm+%22100+questi

ons+and+answers%22+arab&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

HISTORY RESOURCES APPROPRIATE FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGE

Menconi, E. A., & Shedd, C. J. (2002). Arab Americans. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone.

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LITERATURE FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS TO INCORPORATE IN THE EXISTING CURRICULUM

Gibran, K. (1923/1976). The prophet.NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf. There is a lesson plan and short issue paper on Gibran forclassroom use from: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. (1985). Kahlil Gibran: Writer, poet, artist. Washington,

DC: Author.

Darraj, S. M. (2004). Scheherazades legacy: Arab and Arab American women on writing. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Nye, N. S. (1997). Habibi. New York: Simon and Schuster. Also offers a study guide for classroom use. Abinader,E. (n.d.). Children of Al-Mahjar: Arab American literature spans a century.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:uURgq9SJQXMJ:usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0200/ijse/abinader.htm+%22arab+ameri

can+writers%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 Majaj, L. S. (2005). Of stories and storytellers.

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200502/of.stories.and.storytellers.htm

IDEAS AND RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSES

Government, Civics, and Current Events classes can use Arab Americans and Muslims as a case study to discussdiscrimination, racism, anti-immigrant nativism, and post-9/11 civil liberties violations.

The National Education Association (2004) has lesson plan ideas useful for any ethnic group (Stop Bullying Now). NationalEducation Association. (2004). Stop bullying now. http://www.nea.org/lessons/2004/tt040913.html

The film Caught in the Crossfire (Van Taylor & Lichtenstein, 2002) provides a portrait of the impact of 9/11 on three ArabAmericans: a New York City policeman, a CNN diplomatic correspondent, and a Lutheran minister.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has articles for students on stereotyping and discrimination:oWingfield, M. (2000). Civil rights and social justice. In A. Ameri & D. Ramey (Eds.), Arab American encyclopedia

(pp. 183197). Detroit: The Gale Group.

oWingfield, M., & Karaman, B. (2002). Arab stereotypes and American educators. In E. Lee, D. Meinkart, & MOkazawa-Rey (Eds.), Beyond heroes and holidays (rev. ed., pp. 132136). Washington, DC: Teaching for Change.

Middle and high school lessons plans on employment discrimination that are based on actual complaints filed with ADC:oAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. (n.d.a).Lesson plan: Anti-Arab stereotypes, discrimination, and hate

crimes.Washington, DC: Author.

oAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. (n.d.b).Lesson plan: Discrimination in the workplace. Washington,DC: Author.

TEACHER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES adapted from Wingfield (2006).

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee(ADC) has a program of Reaching the Teachers and can providelesson plans, background articles, classroom exercises, handouts and other resources to educators. Local chapters can providespeakers http://www.adc.org.

The Arab American Institute has excellent resources on Arab Americans and is the best source of demographic informationhttp://www.aaiusa.org.

Arab World and Islamic Resources (AWAIR) has a wonderful catalogue of resource materials for teachers at all grade levels.They also offer powerful half-day to two-day teacher staff development programs at no cost to local schools

http://www.awaironline.org.

AMIDEAST also has an excellent array of materials www.amideast.org. Al-Jadid, a magazine of Arab culture, literature, and the arts, often has articles on Arab-American topics

http://www.aljadid.com/.

Mizna is a journal of Arab-American literature and promotes Arab culture http://mizna.org. Cafe Arabica offers commentary and discussion of cultural, social, and political issues http://www.cafearabica.org/. The Council on American/Islamic Relations www.cair-net.org and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee

http://www.mpac.org are good sources of information on Muslim civil rights issues. The Council on Islamic Education offers

a teachers guide to Islam and to teaching about Islam in the public school and other resources http://www.cie.org.

The Dar al Islam Teachers Institute in New Mexico offers national, regional, and local workshops and holds an annual two-week summer institute, primarily for secondary school teachers http://www.daralislam.org.

Interlink Publishing offers many books on the Middle East, including childrens literature http://interlink.com/. The Middle East study centers at several dozen universities have developed their own resources and training workshops for

K-12 teachers. The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, for example, offers educational

modules, a speakers bureau, a lending library, consultation, day-long workshops each semester, and a five-day summer

workshop http://ccas.georgetown.edu.

The Middle East Institute has online materials http://www.mideasti.org.