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ajiss-980	Inloes, Amina	Teaching Arabs, writing Self: Memoirs of an Arab-American woman By Evelyn Shakir (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2014. 170 pages.)	2015.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1894	78	64	Many westerners who studied Arabic in Syria will see their own experi- ences there mirrored in Shakir’s third trip in 2008, during which she visits the American language school in Damascus, the Roman ruins in Bosra, and – in- terestingly – a number of western expatriates as well as the flood of Iraqi refugees from Saddam’s regime and the “war on terror.” Through vignettes, Shakir expresses the anger felt by Arab Americans in a land where Harry Truman “waited all of 11 minutes before saying yes when Jews in Palestine declared themselves a state” (p. 4); their voicelessness when “comics on American TV gloated openly at Israel’s victory” and “Arabs were mocked pitilessly” (p. 5); and their shame when, in the early seventies, “Pales- tinians are hijacking airlines and planting bombs” (p. 5).	cache/ajiss-980.pdf	txt/ajiss-980.txt