New York
Portrait of an Arab city
Marc Terrisse
Urban destination
This book is intended to be both a guide and a travel story through the Little Syria of Manhattan and the neighborhoods of Brooklyn where the Arab diaspora then moved after 1945. In addition to the descendants of the Lebanese and Syrians who arrived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, New York welcomed Palestinian, Egyptian, Yemenite, Moroccan contingents and Jews from the Arab world from the 1950s. They are grouped in several visible places dominated by one nationality, where restaurants and grocery stores mark the urban landscape. Places of worship, Eastern Christian churches, mosques, contain clues about community life. They offer beautiful examples of architecture to which are added New York monuments with an oriental influence. Thus an American Arabness was forged, of which literature and theater appear as the spearheads, deeply connected to near and Middle Eastern geopolitical issues. Travel writer Marc Terrisse offers us an urban stroll where places and memory are the sources of an anthropological, sociological, political and economic discourse which is part of postcolonial studies.
2023-10-09 21:24:59
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