"Ya Habibi:  Growing Up Arab in America"

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Satirical and compelling insight into the Arab American experience. A collection of essays to help you better understand the Arabs in America. By Award winning author, Ray Hanania

    "Ray Hanania has just published a book that takes the bull by the horns: I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing Up Arab in America. Humor and Reality in the Ethnic American Experience. It is a collection of autobiographical chapters, articles the author had published during his long journalistic career, and speeches. The author ponders issues with wry amazement and amusement. One chapter is entitled: "I Wonder if John Wayne Ever Ate Mensiff?"

    "The book has received favorable reviews in the press. Jim Ennes, veteran of the USS Liberty, wrote in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, "His book describes dozens of incidents that should make fair minded people cry out for the injustice. Hanania doesn't cry out. He doesn't complain. He thinks most Americans are bigots. He laughs about it. You will laugh with him."

Palestine News Service
September 1997

     "Ray Hanania's book ... is hilarious. A humorous but thoughtful insight into the daily lives of Arab Americans in a way many people need to understand them. ... You will laugh until you cry."

Jerusalem Review
March 1998

     "Very funny look at the life of an Arab in America in a series of unique essays. ... It touches the tragedy with humor."

Book excerpt:
    "I am not a terrorist. But to run from the word 'terrorist' is wrong. I am glad I look like a terrorist because it gives me a special sword to help destroy the stereotype that continues to injure my people, distort our image and to cause otherwise compassionate Americans to engage in hateful acts of bias."
--  Ray Hanania
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Tabouli Recipe
(spellings and pronunciations vary Tabouleh or Tabouli)

Four cucumbers
Seven green onion stalks
Bunch of parsley
Two tomatoes
Burghal (cracked wheat) 1 bag

1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup Lemon Juice (bottled)

1 cup water

Salt
 

Empty one bag of burghal into a large mixing bowl. Add olive oil, white vinegar and lemon juice. Mix thoroughly and let sit on side 15 minutes.

Dice up cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley and green onions, and mix in with burghal.

Add water. Salt

Mix thoroughly. Place in refrigerator to chill. Serve chilled.

(Note, some people increase or reduce ingredients based on their taste preferences, and some exclude cucumbers, while others replace the green onions with chives.)

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