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September, 2007
Manal El-Hrisse prays in the basement of the Mosque Foundation in southwest suburban Bridgeview. within hours of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, El-Hrisse said, a woman shouted at her, "I wish I had a gun. I wouldshoot you right now." Many local Arabs say the backlash continues. (Photo by Mary Hanlon) On a chilly Friday evening in November, after prayers at a local mosque, Mamoun Alrifai...
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September, 2007
Although often portrayed as a new and foreign element, Arabs have been a part of Chicago since the first large wave of Arab immigration to the United States occurred between 1899 and 1921, according to Louise Cainkar, a fellow with the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute.
The vast majority came from the region known today as Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied...
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September, 2007
Around 6 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 5, Salim Yusef was jolted awake to pounding at the front door. "I heard voices saying, –˜Come on, open up!'" said Yusef, a 22-year-old permanent U.S. resident of Palestinian origin. He had been asleep on the living room sofa in the south suburban home he shares with his brother and sister-in-law.
It was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service....
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