… This book review explores contemporary first-hand accounts of Arab Australian identities and
the role of race and racism in shaping personal and group identity. … I appreciated the solidarity
displayed in the stories presented in Arab, Australian, Other, though at times the contributors
presented too unified a position as Arab, as though an authentic Arab identity had been tainted
only by structures of racism without which this cultural identity would have remained otherwise
intact. There were references to ‘our parents’ and ‘our culture’; especially so in Rawah Arja’s …