1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790597803321

Titolo

Arab Detroit 9/11 [[electronic resource] ] : life in the terror decade / / edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8143-3682-5

Descrizione fisica

vii, 413 p. : ill

Collana

Great Lakes books

Altri autori (Persone)

AbrahamNabeel

HowellSally

ShryockAndrew

Disciplina

305.8927/073077434

Soggetti

Arab Americans - Michigan - Detroit - Social conditions - 21st century

Arab Americans - Michigan - Detroit - Economic conditions - 21st century

Muslims - Michigan - Detroit - Social conditions - 21st century

Community life - Michigan - Detroit - History - 21st century

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

National characteristics, American

Citizenship - United States

Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 21st century

Detroit (Mich.) Economic conditions 21st century

Detroit (Mich.) Ethnic relations History 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Arab Detroit after 9/11: a changing demographic portrait / Kim Schopmeyer -- Cracking down on diaspora: Arab Detroit and America's war on terror / Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock -- Backlash, part 2: The Federal law enforcement agenda / Sally Howell and Amaney Jamal -- Orthodox, Arab, American: the flexibility of Christian Arabness in Detroit / Matthew W. Stiffler -- Fighting our own battles: Iraqi Chaldeans and the war on terror / Yasmeen Hanoosh -- Muslims as moving targets: external scrutiny and internal critique in Detroit's mosques / Sally Howell -- Detroit transnational: the interchange experience in Lebanon and the United States / Kristine J. Ajrouch -- My



life as a brown person / Mujan Seif -- Subject to change / Khadigah Alasry -- Going places / Hayan Charara -- And then you add the Arab thing / Lawrence Joseph -- Domestic foreign policy: Arab Detroit as a special place in the war on terror / William Youmans -- The Arab American National Museum: sanctioning Arabness for a post-9/11 America / Rachel Yezbick -- Toward electability: public office and the Arab vote / Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari -- Arabs behaving badly: the limits of containment in a post-9/11 world / Nabeel Abraham -- The new order and its forgotten histories / Andrew Shryock, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786508903321

Autore

Green Daniel R.

Titolo

Fallujah redux : the Anbar awakening and the struggle with al-Qaeda / / Daniel R. Green and William F. Mullen III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61251-143-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

956.7044/345

Soggetti

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Campaigns - Iraq - Fallūjah

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Campaigns - Iraq - Anbār (Province)

Counterinsurgency - Iraq - Anbār (Province)

Anbār (Iraq : Province) Politics and government 2003-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Timeline of key events in Fallujah , Iraq -- The stench of death (Fallujah 2004-2006) -- The city of mosques -- The Anbar Awakening -- "Are we losing Fallujah ?" -- Bringing democracy to Iraq -- Operation Alljah -- The Fallujah awakening -- The city awakens -- The swarm and the surge -- A sheik returns and another departs -- The deluge -- Voice of the people.

Sommario/riassunto

The city of Fallujah, Iraq will long be associated with some of the worst violence and brutality of the Iraq war.  The battles to retake the city



from insurgent fighters in 2004 have already indelibly carved its name into the historic annals of the U.S. military and occupy a revered place in the storied history of the United States Marine Corps.  Initially occupied by U.S. forces in 2003, it eventually served as the headquarters for numerous insurgent groups operating west of Baghdad, including al-Qaeda in Iraq and its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, until forcibly retaken at the end of 2004.  On