Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (Paperback)

Elaine C. Hagopian (editor)

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Paperback 320 Pages / Published: 20/05/2004

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Synopsis

Muslims and Arab-Americans are increasingly under attack as a result of the US 'war on terror' - at home, as well as abroad.

Since the tragic events of September 11, Arab and Muslim Americans have faced a major assault on their civil liberties, with the Patriot Act on the frontline of this. Civil Rights in Peril seeks to expose the impact of these new governmental powers on Muslims and Arabs, as well as other groups and individuals targeted as part of the Bush administration's 'war on terror', and to show how ordinary people can resist these attacks on our fundamental rights.

This powerful anthology, edited by the well-known scholar and activist Elaine Hagopian, includes essays by Samih Farsoun, Naseer Aruri, Susan Akram, Nancy Murray, Robert Morlino and William Youmans.

Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745322643
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 457 g
Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 21 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

'Elaine Hagopian, one of the country's most respected analysts of Middle East affairs, has brought together a group of astute commentators, who give us a refreshingly critical view of the current demonization of Muslims and Arabs' -- Howard Zinn
'An excellent contribution to the ignored facets of US wars on terrorism; those wars are also fought in US cities and towns, mostly targeting Arabs and Muslims' -- As'ad AbuKhalil, Dept. of Politics, California State University
'An important contribution to understanding the domestic side effects of the need for a foreign bogeyman after the dissolution of that other "Evil Empire", the Soviet Union' -- Abdeen Jabara, Civil Rights Attorney, Past President, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee