Book Review: The Rise of the Arab-American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s, Pamela E. Pennock
Hanna Alshaikh
Hanna Alshaikh is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Her research focus was on social and intellectual history in late Ottoman Palestine, writing a thesis on the autobiography of Palestinian educator Khalil Totah, and what his recollections of childhood reveal about modernity in Palestine and earlier manifestations of a US-Arab encounter. Hanna is an adjunct professor at DePaul University. She is also a research fellow at American Friends Service Committee, working on an oral history project on the Palestinian diaspora narrative, activism, immigration, and intergenerational issues. You can follow Hanna on Twitter @yalawiya.