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“If you drop her, she’ll break, but she’ll cut you, too. She’s tough and tender, enraged and exhausted, withdrawn and outgoing, a pessimist brimming with humanist hope.”

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Book:How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

Source: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

“It makes me sad to think about all the resources the Muslim American community has been forced to waste for the past decade on campaigns, events, and media efforts to prove that we, too, are American; that w, too, are human, begging and pleading the public to not believe the racist rhetoric being spewed about us. I can't imagine the types of institutions, programs, and civic society we could have cultivated for our community—the type of backbone we could have had the opportunity to grow—had we not been forced into this position.”

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Book:Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story

Source: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story

“Never in her life had she thought that she would end up in jail unless she had committed a crime. So why was she here? ... She hadn’t been convicted. She had been abducted. This wasn’t justice. It was revenge.”

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Book:How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

Source: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America