Opposition to the Iraq war drew even apolitical Arab Americans into ethnic organizing

Evidence

But lately his circumstances kept bringing him back to the importance of his Arab roots. … So he decided to go to the campus meeting. There he met the other Arab students at his college and began hanging out with them, partly from the ethnic tribalism that pervades much of higher education (and American society at large) and partly in a search for new friends. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 180

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader arc of this book and post-9/11 Arab American political awakening literature.