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Fall 2008 Lecture Series
Dr. Yvonne Haddad is Professor at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre at Georgetown University. An internationally renowned scholar, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books on the topic of Arab and Muslim minorities in the West. Her most recent book is Not Quite American? The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States (Baylor University Press, 2004).
Reception hosted by World Lebanese Cultural Union, BC Council
ABSTRACT
The attacks of 9/11 have impacted North American youth of Middle Eastern origin who have come of age in the context of unbridled Islamophobia. The paper will provide a comparative overview of identity formation of earlier generations of immigrants and their children during periods of West-Middle East conflict with special reference to WWI, WWII and the Arab Israeli War of 1967.
