Angeleno Days : : an Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics
Book - 2009 None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
AADL has no copies of this item
Essays originally published in the Los Angeles times magazine from 1999-2003.
Kingdom of rags -- Valley boys -- The barber of Tarzana -- The teacher's prayer -- Straight shooters -- We were the people -- Nazera -- Contact: the war, sandlot football, and my father -- The messenger of the lost battalion -- An act of forgiveness -- Taps for a broken soldier -- Angeleno days -- Shall we gather in the mountains? -- Baghdad with a human face -- Where is the outrage over Iraq? -- The Arab in the post-world War II novel -- To hope -- Doomed by our blood to care -- No. Not this -- Snuffing the fire of radical Islam -- Meditations on Lebanon, 2006 -- Facing the wall: Arab Americans and publishing -- Why write?
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: viii, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780816527731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816527733 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Orfalea, Gregory, -- 1949- -- Family.
Orfalea, Gregory, -- 1949- -- Homes and haunts -- Los Angeles.
American literature -- Arab American authors -- Biography.