Anti-Arab Racism:Where it Comes From

Talk/Discussion: "Anti-Arab Racism:Where it Comes From" with author/activist Steven Salaita

MAPC and Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative invite you to a community discussion and talk on "Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means" with author/activist Steven Salaita. Mr. Salaita currently serves as Executive Director of RAWI, the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc., an international organization representing writers and artists of Arab origin. He is also involved with a number of other Arab American organizations (al-Jadid, Mizna, ADC, ACCESS). He studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank during the summer of 2000, traveled to Palestine and Israel in 2001 as part of a delegation sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and lived and worked in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Labanon in summer, 2002.

Mr. Salaita ia an Assistant Professor of English and has authored the forthcoming book: The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan, as well as the book Arab Americna LIterary Fictions, Cultures and Politics.

Mr. Salaita's talk will address how this country treats citizens of Arab or Middle Eastern orign within its own borders, explore how deep-rooted racism affects everything from legislation to cultural life, and show how ingrained racist attitudes can be found within progressive Left movements as well as in the Right.