The Excellence of the Arabs JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance Anton Shammas(University of Michigan)

Anton Shammas(University of Michigan)

No need to hop on a plane to the East Coast

While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion

she walked merrily across the savannah

Ecks shows how doctors employ a wide range of strategies to make patients take the remedies prescribed

The Excellence of the Arabs JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance Anton Shammas(University of Michigan)The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identityits merits, values, and originsat a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society