The New York Times · 2 December 1973

CP-1973-016

Middle East Stirs Arabs in Brooklyn

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“‘We cannot stay here. We cannot go back to our homes in Palestine. So, we think about it all the time,’ said Ali Abdul Jabbar, a young Palestinian student-turned-salesman, one of 30,000 Arabs…”

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Shuja Nawaz, in a Brooklyn mosque and an Arab club on Court Street, during the oil embargo. A named Palestinian in New York saying the sentence the whole archive circles: cannot stay, cannot return.

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"Middle East Stirs Arabs in Brooklyn," The New York Times, 2 December 1973. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1973-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1973-016

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