AMCULT 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arab American University, Arab Americans, Israel Bonds
3 Dec 2017
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Mostly humanitarian and civic in nature - fundraising for both syria and for us military in wwi. Famine in wwi in greece, turkey, armenia, syria. While syrian americans were enlisting to fight for america in wwi, their families were dying in the famine. Before the state of israel was founded. Arab-americans were very active in fighting for palestinians to have more stability and. Association of arab american university graduates (aaug) Founded to speak against the fire and stereotypes that arab-americans were going under. One of the first and most powerful arab-american groups. Go-to arab-american organization when you wanted to learn about arab culture, how us foreign policy was impacting. Edward said was the founding vice president. First real need to organize across ethnic, national, religious lines. Mostly led by elite: scholars and professionals. They were not on the labor lines or fought against the war issues directly. They were more scholarly (thought of things like orientalism)
