A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold through Arab-American Lives. Alia Malek offer a vital piece of the mosaic of our American history and a fresh, urgent, and exciting perspective on a teeming community whom it has become essential for us to understand.

Explore the experiences and perspectives of Arab Americans, as well as Arab history and heritage, through works of nonfiction. April marks National Arab American History Month, but these titles are worth reading throughout the year.

This list of books explores poignant memoirs like The Cave, and I Was Their American Dream, fiction novels like Huda F Cares, and it even includes delicious cookbooks that offer an authentic tatse of home. 

Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures.

Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists. This groundbreaking collection creates a space in which Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminsts speak out about issues of history, culture and identity.