Nabeel Abraham (born 1950) is an American

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and activist. His research focuses around

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s and how Arabs and Palestinians are represented in mainstream American media.

Biography

Abraham was born in 1950 in

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. His family moved to

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, in 1955, where his fathered started a retail shop on Michigan Avenue. His family is originally from

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. Abraham attended

Cass Technical High School Cass Technical High School (simply referred to as Cass Tech) is a public high school in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, United States.

. He earned degrees in

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and

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from

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

. He earned his master's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abraham served as director of the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College. He operated the program for 18 years, before an early retirement due to financial issues at the college. He worked at the college for 28 years. He served as a columnist for '' Lies of Our Times'' until it ceased publishing in 1994 and also contributed to '' Middle East Report''. He is the co-editor of '' Arab Detroit''. He edited and contributed to ''Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade''. Released in 2011, the book won three awards: the Midwest Book Award, the Independent Publishers Book Award and the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. His papers are held in the collection of the

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at the

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. In 2016, Abraham was interviewed by the

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regarding living as a teenage Arab-American in the 1960s in

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Bibliography

*Kaldas, Pauline and Khaled Mattawa (editors). ''Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction''. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas (2009). .

References

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