Notes
* Anan Ameri’s The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2017) describes formative episodes in the author’s life from the 1948 war through the early 1970s.
† Interested readers should seek Ameri’s account of the museum’s founding, Telling Our Story: The Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI: Arab American National Museum, 2007).
‡ That story is the focus of Linda Sarsour’s memoir, We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019).