America in an Arab Mirror

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
List of Accounts of Arab Travelers to America According to Their Date of Publication (1668–2008)......Page 16
I America in the Eyes of Anineteenth-Century Arab......Page 20
1. A Stranger in the West: The Trip of Mikhail Asad Rustum to America, 1885–1894, Mikhail Asad Rustum (1895)......Page 22
II The Making of an Image: America as the Unchanged Other, America as the Seductive Female......Page 26
2. “The America I Have Seen”: In the Scale of Human Values, Sayyid Qutb (1951)......Page 28
3. A Love Tour, Mahmud Awad (1972)......Page 48
4. An American Immigrant, Ahmad Mustafa (1979)......Page 50
5. New York 80, Yusuf Idris (1980?)......Page 56
6. America: The Jeans and the Switchblade, Muhammad Hasan al-Alfi (1989)......Page 62
7. America for Sale, Mahmud Imara (1991)......Page 64
III America: The Dream and the Reality, The American as an Example to Emulate......Page 66
8. America in the Eyes of an Easterner, Or Eight Years in the United States, Philip K. Hitti (1924)......Page 68
9. The World in America, Amir Boqtor (1926)......Page 74
10. The Trip to America, Muhammad Labib al-Batanuni (1930)......Page 78
11. The Flying Sphinx [in America], Mahmud Taymur (1946?)......Page 80
12. America Under the Microscope, Zaki Khalid (1954)......Page 82
13. My Days in America, Zaki Najib Mahmud (1955)......Page 86
14. The Land of Magic, Shafiq Jabri (1962)......Page 100
15. America: Paradise and Hellfire, Adil Hammuda (1982)......Page 106
16. The Washington Memoirs, Yusuf al-Hasan (1986)......Page 110
17. America (Top Secret), Ahmad Haridi (1987)......Page 112
18. Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual, Hisham Sharabi (1988)......Page 116
IV America in the Eyes of Arab Women Travelers......Page 122
19. America and I, Jadhibiyya Sidqi (1962?)......Page 124
20. An Egyptian Girl in America, Karima Kamal (1983)......Page 130
21. The Trip: The Days of an Egyptian Female Student in America, Radwa Ashur (1987)......Page 136
22. America’s Other Face, Layla Abu Zayd (1991)......Page 140
23. America the Way It Is, Hala Sarhan (1995)......Page 142
V Satirical Views of America......Page 146
24. Cheerful America of the Past: Journal of a Penniless Student in the United States, Mustafa Amin (1989)......Page 148
25. America, You Cheeky Devil, Mahmud al-Sadani (1990)......Page 154
26. My Story with Eva [Ivana Trump], Ali Salem (1993)......Page 162
27. “The Sabeel in America,” Kamal Abdel-Malek (1999)......Page 166
VI Colonial Spanish America in the Eyes of a Seventeenth-Century Arab (1668)......Page 170
28. The Gold and the Tempest: The Journey of Elias al-Musili to America, The First Arab Journey to the New World......Page 172
VII Early Egyptian Travelers in America: Muhammad Ali Pasha’s Trip in 1912......Page 174
29. A Passage to America, Muhammad Ali Pasha (1912)......Page 176
VIII Accounts of Arab Travelers to America Between 1996 and 2000......Page 180
30. The First Glimpse of New York, Hisham al-Hadidi (1996)......Page 182
31. An Egyptian in America, Adil Ahmad Sarkis (1998)......Page 186
IX Accounts of Arab Travelers to America After 9/11......Page 190
32. One Americano with Mayonnaise, Please, Samir al-Jamal (2001)......Page 192
33. One Hundred and Eighty Days in Yankeestan, Wafaa Ibrahim (2002)......Page 196
34. Returning to California as a Tourist, Ghazi Abd al-Rahman al-Qusaybi (2002)......Page 200
35. Deconstructing America: 9/11 and Its Aftermath, Rida Hilal (2003)......Page 204
36. Dusk in America, Muhammad al-Jawwadi (2003)......Page 206
37. Would You Like to Hate America?Yusuf Maati (2003)......Page 208
38. Cities of the Wind, Abd al-Aziz al-Musallam (2004)......Page 212
39. Americanli, Sunallah Ibrahim (2004)......Page 214
40. Why Do They Hate Us? Nasir al-Din Muhammad al-Zamil (2004)......Page 216
41. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Mansur Abd al-Hakim (2005)......Page 218
42. Embrace Condoleezza Rice at Your Own Risk, Zuhayr Wasini (2006)......Page 220
43. Chicago, Alaa al-Aswani (2007)......Page 226
44. Saudis in America, Turki Al-Dakhil (2007)......Page 230
45. The Egyptian Occupation of America,Yasir Qantush (2008)......Page 232
Appendix: Accounts of Arab Travelers to America Unlisted in Part One: Sinbad in the New World, Husayn Fawzi (1984)......Page 238
Index......Page 240