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Hayoun, Massoud.
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Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth.
Mizrahim -- Biography.
North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography.
Cultural fusion -- Egypt.
Jews -- Identity.
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Hayoun, Massoud.
Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth.
Mizrahim -- Biography.
North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography.
Cultural fusion -- Egypt.
Jews -- Identity.
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When
we
were
Arabs
: a
Jewish
family
's
forgotten
history
/ Massoud Hayoun.
by
Hayoun, Massoud.
New Press, 2019.
Call #:
305.8924 H424w
Subjects
Hayoun, Massoud -- Childhood and youth.
Mizrahim -- Biography.
North Africans -- Egypt -- Biography.
Cultural fusion -- Egypt.
Jews -- Identity.
ISBN:
9781620974162 (hc.)
Description:
274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A vivid account of Massoud Hayoun'
s
grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, France, Palestine, and Los Angeles, in which he reclaims his
family
's
Jewish
Arab identity."--From the publisher.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
1 Origins p. 17 -- 2 Nation p. 53 -- 3 La Rupture / The Rupture p. 95 -- 4 Exile p. 155 -- 5 Darkness p. 191 -- 6 Memory p. 225.
Summary:
"There was a time
when
being an "Arab" didn't mean you
were
necessarily Muslim. It was a time
when
Oscar Hayoun, a
Jewish
Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the
Jewish
Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his
family
's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost.
When
We
Were
Arabs
showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award-winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how
we
draw the lines over which
we
do battle."--From publisher.
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