Nabeel Abraham

Nabeel Abraham (born 1950 ) is an American anthropologist and activist. His research focuses around Arab-Americans and how Arabs and Palestinians are represented in mainstream American media.

Biography

Abraham was born in 1950 in North Carolina. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1955, where his father started a retail shop on Michigan Avenue.

Abraham served as director of the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College. He operated the program for 18 years, before an early retirement due to financial issues at the college. He worked at the college for 28 years. He is the co-editor of Arab Detroit. He edited and contributed to Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Released in 2011, the book won three awards: the Midwest Book Award, the Independent Publishers Book Award and the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.

His papers are held in the collection of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. In 2016, Abraham was interviewed by the Detroit Historical Society regarding living as a teenage Arab-American in the 1960s in Detroit.