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The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants
Bill Rezak
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Description for The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BM; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America. His mother’s parents were sent separately from Great Britain into indentured servitude in Canada, alone at the ages of ten and sixteen. They worked off their servitude, met, married, and moved to New York State. In The Arab and the Brit, a memoir that spans multiple generations and countries, Rezak ... Read more
Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America. His mother’s parents were sent separately from Great Britain into indentured servitude in Canada, alone at the ages of ten and sixteen. They worked off their servitude, met, married, and moved to New York State. In The Arab and the Brit, a memoir that spans multiple generations and countries, Rezak ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609742
SKU
V9780815609742
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About Bill Rezak
Bill Rezak was president of Alfred State College from 1993 until his retirement in 2003. He was dean of the School of Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia, USA. Rezak is a mechanical engineer and spent eighteen years in the design and construction of power plants before moving to higher education.
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