CELEBRATING ARAB HERITAGE in LATIN AMERICA 

National Arab American Heritage Month flier

Flier for the National Arab American Heritage book display

National Arab American Heritage Month, April 2023 

In honor of Arab American Heritage Month this year, we created a display with a few books we selected from our collection. Come by and explore our resources!

Books in LACC

Below is a list of a few print books we selected from our stacks. Stop by LACC and check out a book that is currently on display!  

  • Agar Corbinos, Lorenzo., and Raymundo. Kabchi. El mundo árabe y América Latina. 1. ed. Madrid: Ediciones UNESCO, 1997. Print. LAC; F1419.A7 M86 1997 
  • Mawṣilī, Ilyās, and Caesar E. Farah. An Arab’s Journey to Colonial Spanish America: the Travels of Elias Al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century. 1st ed. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Print. LAC; E143.M3913 2003 
  • Civantos, Christina. Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Print. LAC; F2810.C54 2006 
  • Hyland, Steven. More Argentine Than You: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Print. LAC (F3021.A59 H95 2017) 
  • Araújo, Heloísa Vilhena de. “Diálogo América do Sul–países árabes.” Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão-FUNAG, Instituto de Pesquisa de Relações Internacionais-IPRI, 2005. Print. LAC (DS63.18. S46 2004) 
  • Sagarzazu, María Elvira. La Argentina encubierta : informes sobre la otra identidad. Rosario [Argentina: Ovejero Martín Editores, 2000. Print. LAC (F3021.A59 S34 2000) 
  • Rafide, Matías. Escritores chilenos de origen arabe : ensayo y antología. 1a ed. Chile: Instituto Chileno-Arabe de Cultura, 1989. Print. Latin America Reference (PQ7934.A7 R331 1989) 
  • Soler, Luis. As raízes árabes, na tradição poético-musical do sertão nordestino. Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Editora Universitária, 1978. Print. LAC (PQ9691.N59 S64) 
  • Mawṣilī, Ilyās, and Caesar E. Farah. An Arab’s Journey to Colonial Spanish America: the Travels of Elias Al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century. 1st ed. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003. Print. LAC (E143 .M3913 2003) 
  • González, Nancie L. Solien. Dollar, Dove, and Eagle: One Hundred Years of Palestinian Migration to Honduras. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Print. LAC (JV419. G64 1992) 
  • Pastor, Camila. The Mexican Mahjar : Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs Under the French Mandate. First edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Print. LAC (F1392.A7 P37 2017) 
  • Valenzuela Motz, Nelson Aníbal. Los inmigrantes árabes en Honduras: una historia en imágenes = Arab immigrants in Honduras: an illustrated history. Primera edición. Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., Honduras, C.A: Grupo Votz Editores, 2016. Print. LAC (F1517.A73 V35 2016) 
  • Karam, John Tofik. “Distinguishing Arabesques: The Politics and Pleasures of Being Arab in Neoliberal Brazil.” Thesis (Ph.D.) –Syracuse University, 2004., 2004. Print. LAC (F2659.A7 K373 2004a) 
  • Saddy, Fehmy. Arab-Latin American Relations: Energy, Trade, and Investment. New Brunswick (U.S.A.): Transaction Books, 1983. Print. LAC (HF1480.55. A65 A7 1983) 
  • Civantos, Christina. Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Print. LAC (F2810 .C54 2006) 
  • Hurtado, Ana Maria. et al. Palestine in the South. Santiago, Chile: Antipoder, 2011. Film. Latin America Ltd. Cir. (F3285.A7 P35 2011) 
  • González, Romig, Jimmy Sierra, and Rámon Abreu. Los árabes en la hispaniola y la cuestión palestina. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic?}: Oasis Audiovisual, 2013. Film. Latin America Ltd. Cir. (F1941.A73 A73 2013) 

Browse the library catalog to find additional books!