This is a history that stubbornly refuses to yield the space of memory to those who wish that we were never here. My new edited book, Arab American Public History, is now available from Temple University Press, and like a number of my works, it has been published at a terrifying moment for the communities about which and for whom I write. The content of … Continue reading New Book on Arab American Public History
November 24, 2025 — The IU Indianapolis University Library has published an online, fully digital open-access archive of the Midwest Federation of American Syrian Lebanese Clubs (MFASLC). Containing over one thousand items ranging from annual convention programs and legal documents to photographs and correspondence among Arab American leaders, the archive is a unique addition to the sources available for the study of Arab American and … Continue reading Unique Arab American Archive Launched
This past summer, I rejoined the staff of the Journal of Africana Religions, which I co-founded with Sylvester Johnson in 2011, as interim managing editor. When I left the journal in 2021, the journal was fully staffed. We had recruited three new editors; Prof. Johnson and long-time Managing Editor Jeremy Rehwaldt were also still serving. But by 2025, only two staff members, Prof. Johnson and … Continue reading Journal of Africana Religions, Once More
Edward E. Curtis IV 