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How is the AAUG Remembered? Restrained Nostalgia, Historical Omissions, and My Side of the Story
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The events and reasons behind the closure of the AAUG Washington DC office and the subsequent disbanding of the entire organization, with the notable exception of the Arab Studies Quarterly is described here by the last acting Executive Director. This essay helps to fill a major lacuna in the written history of a major Arab American activist organization.
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Baha Abu-Laban, “Reflections on the Rise and Decline of an Arab-American Organization,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007), 47–56, 49.
After completing this article, I sent my old office files to Alexis Braun Mark, the University Archivist for the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, where they now remain.
Lisa Suhair Majaj, “Re: June Minutes from the Board,” Email dated June 23, 1998. From the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, 1998.
Elaine C. Hagopian, “Re: A Couple of Things,” Email dated July 6, 1998. From the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, 1998.
Nadia Hijab, “AAUG in the 1990s: In Search of Purpose, Resources and Good Organizational Culture,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007), 155–164, 157.
Respectively see M. Cherif Bassiouni, “The AAUG: Reflections on a Lost Opportunity,” 21; Michael W. Suleiman, “I Come to Bury Caesar, not to Praise Him’: An Assessment of the AAUG as an Example of an Activist Arab-American Organization,” 78; and Naseer H. Aruri, “AAUG: A Memoir,” 40 in Arab Studies Quarterly 29: 3&4 (2007).
Suleiman, “I Come to Bury Caesar,” 78–79.
Aruri, “AAUG,” 41.
Ibid., 45.
Abu-Laban, “Reflections on the Rise and Decline,” 49–50.
Hani A. Faris, “The AAUG Experience: An Assessment,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 117–124.
Bassiouni, “The AAUG: Reflections,” 31.
See Aruri, “AAUG.”
Benedict R. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev. and extended ed., 2nd ed. (London: Verso, 1991).
Faris, “The AAUG Experience: An assessment.”
Aruri, “AAUG,” 44–45.
Nabil Elie Khoury, “The AAUG in My Eyes,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 165–172, 169.
The conference titled, “Palestine: The Arab World and the Emerging International System: Values, Culture and Politics” took place on July 5–9, 1993. The conference was accompanied by several fact-finding day trips to Hebron, Acre, Nazareth, and Gaza as well as visits to Birzeit University, Al-Najah University in Nablus and Hebron University.
For further information, see Dina Maasarani, “Case Description of the Structure of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates,” December 2, 2001. Not published. Copy in the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University.
Khalil Nakhleh, “AAUG: A Personal Reflection,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 105–110, 107.
Ibid., 110.
Abdeen Jabara, “The AAUG: Aspirations and Failures,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 15–20, 19.
Elaine C. Hagopian, “Reversing Injustice: On Utopian Activism,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 57–74, 71–72.
Khoury had been at the helm to organize the 1999 conference in Novi, Michigan, that had a balanced budget and was significantly easier to organize than the conference in 2000.
Elaine C. Hagopian, “For Dr. Kamal Khalaf Al-Tawil,” Email dated December 31, 1999. From the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, 1999.
Janice J. Terry, “The AAUG: An Activist, Academic Organization,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 1–6, 3.
Ghada Hashem Talhami, “A Cultural Not a Political Lobby: The Mixed Legacy of a Grand Plan,” Arab Studies Quarterly 29:3&4 (2007): 125–138, 133.
Hagopian, “Reversing Injustice,” 76.
Hijab, “AAUG in the 1990s,” 158.
As quoted in Maasarani, “Case Description of the Structure,” 3.
Randa Kayyali, “Preliminary Agenda for Meeting on June 9.” From the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, 2001.
Moustache, 265 East 10th St, New York City.
Randa Kayyali, “AAUG Board: Office Update,” Email to the Board dated August 10, 2001. From the AAUG collection at Eastern Michigan University, 2001.