Growing up alongside Iraqi refugees shaped Beydoun’s activist approach to the War on Terror

Evidence

Let me share a story. Days after the Bush administration declared war on Iraq, Khaled appeared in class noticeably rattled. He had a keffiyeh on his bag and a look of concern on his face. Khaled had relocated to Los Angeles for school but came from a city where Iraqis flocked in waves as refugees. He’d grown up alongside victims of wars new and old. … Not satisfied with the simple goal of mastering legal concepts or rules, he strove to create tools that could educate others and impact change. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 21

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which Detroit Iraqi refugee experiences specifically fed into the book’s analysis? A line to chase in Beydoun’s own chapters.