| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community. By Elizabeth Boosahda. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xx, 284 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-292-70919-6. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-292-70920-X.)

Elizabeth Boosahda's Arab-American Faces and Voices is a book remarkable for its unique style and approach. The book has a tone all its own; the best way to describe it would be as tributary scholarship, one that combines the author's own attempt to document the lives of the first generation of Arab immigrants to the Americas—"my people," as she proudly calls them in the preface—and, at the same time, educate Americans, both Arab and non-Arab, about the enterprising spirit of these early settlers. Carefully selected photographs, extensive quotations from records and personal interviews (she conducted interviews with older people from 1987 to 1994 and spent about eight years verifying their statements through research), various addenda, an annotated bibliography, and a note about methodology are some of the parts that make up the texture of this book.

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