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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hayoun, Massoud, author.     Subjects     Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth.     Mizrahim -- Biography.     North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography.     Cultural fusion -- Egypt.     Jews -- Identity.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hayoun, Massoud, author.       by title:      When we were Arabs :...         MARC Display

When we were Arabs : a Jewish family's forgotten history / Massoud Hayoun. by Hayoun, Massoud, author. New York : The New Press, 2019. Subjects Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth.   Mizrahim -- Biography.   North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography.   Cultural fusion -- Egypt.   Jews -- Identity. ISBN:  9781620974162 (hardcover alkaline paper) : 1620974169 (hardcover alkaline paper) : Description:  274 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  Origins -- The nations -- The rupture -- Exile -- Darkness -- Memory. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.8924 Ha Checked out 05/01/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.8924 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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