Angeleno days : an Arab American writer on family, place, and politics / Gregory Orfalea.

Author/creator Orfalea, Gregory, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
Descriptionviii, 238 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents 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?
General noteEssays originally published in the Los Angeles times magazine from 1999-2003.
LCCN 2008036915
ISBN9780816527731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816527733 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3565 .R427 Z46 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold