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Five More to Go: Shing Yin Khor’s The American Dream? [in The Booklist Reader]

22 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Egyptian American, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Jewish, Latina/o/x, Lists, Malaysian American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor Malaysia-born, LA-dwelling Shing Yin Khor introduces the “two Americas” that were their obsessions growing up: a Los Angeles “full of beautiful people and sunlight and...

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib [in Booklist]

29 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Egyptian American, Filipina/o American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Malaka Gharib’s Catholic mother regretted leaving her upper-middle-class Manila life, but unrest fueled by the 1970s Marcos regime sent her stateside. Meanwhile, her Egyptian Muslim father “had been scheming to get to America since high school” and finally enrolled at UCLA’s School of Management. They...

On My Own by Diane Rehm [in Library Journal]

16 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Arab American, Audio, Egyptian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Beloved NPR host Diane Rehm’s latest memoir begins with her husband John's end – depleted by Parkinson's disease, unable to "stand walk, eat, bathe, or in any way care for himself on his own, he was now ready to die." After 54 years of marriage –...

The Last Night of Ramadan by Maissa Hamed, illustrated by Mohamed El Wakil

27 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Arab American, Children/Picture Books, Egyptian American, Fiction

By various lunar predictions, tonight should be the last night of Ramadan. Eid Mubarak! In spite of all the good intentions expected of this holy month, world events haven't exactly played out quite that way, which only makes the first line of the preface here that...

Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave by Shyima Hall with Lisa Wysocky

26 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Egyptian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

"If this book leads to even a single rescue, then my time in bondage was worth it," Shyima Hall writes in the penultimate paragraph in the final chapter of her new memoir. That "time in bondage" she refers to is four long years during which...

The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me by Maged Zaher

08 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Egyptian, Egyptian American, Poetry

For those of you who know me, this is no surprise: poetry is my literary Achilles' heel. But my contrary nature occasionally gets brave enough to try again, and the few times I eke out some level of comprehension, you'll read about it here. [Any...

Coming to America: A Muslim Family’s Story by Bernard Wolf [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Egyptian American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost

Coming to AmericaA touching story about an immigrant Muslim family of five from Egypt, which shows details from their everyday lives. The book is especially relevant now, in order to expose young readers to...

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