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Nabeel Abraham

Nabeel Abraham teaches anthropology and is director of the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Satanic Verses in Detroit

Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence of February 14, 1989 continues to affect the lives of people far removed from its original target -- author Salman Rushdie. More than a year later, in Dearborn, Michigan, local sympathizers of the ayatollah within the Arab American community disrupted a talk on Ru

Nabeel Abraham • 5 min read

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Human Rights Briefing

What has been the performance of human rights organizations during the first two years of the intifada? A fresh look at eight organizations surveyed prior to the uprising (MER 150) shows that overall coverage has increased, as one might expect based on the intensity and duration of the uprising, but

Nabeel Abraham • 3 min read

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Algeria's Facade of Democracy

Mahfoud Bennoune, a contributing editor of this magazine, is a veteran of the Algerian war of independence and currently teaches at the University of Algiers. He is the author of The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987 (Cambridge University Press, 1988). Nabeel Abraham spoke with him in Detroi

Nabeel Abraham • 12 min read

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Human Rights Briefing

The bus arrived at Tadmur Prison where the military police awaited us. The warders helped us off the bus, whipping us brutally and mercilessly until we were all out. They removed the handcuffs and blindfolds, and then we were taken into a courtyard overlooked by the prison’s offices, where our names

Nabeel Abraham • 4 min read

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International Human Rights Organizations and the Palestine Question

Unlike the news media, human rights organizations have only limited contact with mass public opinion, but they constitute a primary source of information on human rights conditions around the world. They play a subtle, crucial role in shaping the opinions of political leaders, news commentators and

Lisa Hajjar, Nabeel Abraham • 26 min read

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Naff, Becoming American

Alixa Naff, Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience, (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985). Alixa Naff gives us a rare and detailed look into the virtually unknown and now largely forgotten world of the early Arabic-speaking immigrants who made their

Nabeel Abraham • 2 min read