"Loren Lybarger's book provides the first in-depth examination of an important Palestinian-American community in a major US city. Based on painstaking research and extensive interviews, this book constitutes a welcome contribution to our understanding of both the Palestinian diaspora and an important US immigrant community."—Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
"In this groundbreaking and beautifully written book, Loren Lybarger centers the voices of a wide array of Palestinians—Muslim and Christian, religious and secular, immigrant and American-born, politicized and not. Palestinian Chicago brings forth the complex, dynamic, and fluid ways members of this community navigate identity and belonging in today's world."—Maha Nassar, author of Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
"Palestinian Chicago masterfully transforms existing understandings of Palestinian identity, resistance, and diaspora. By situating secular nationalism and Islamism within the changing realities of race, class, gender, generation, and space, Lybarger reveals the complex ways Palestinian politics take on local form in Chicago. Palestinian Chicago is an extraordinarily valuable text for anyone interested in History, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies, Religious Studies, and Middle East Studies and the themes of displacement, diaspora, race, identity, and resistance."—Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
"Palestinian Chicago is a compelling work that complicates the secular in Palestine and the Arab world, in diaspora, and in the United States."—Sherene Seikaly, author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
