Learn about the attempts of Arabic-speaking immigrants to achieve financial and social success in the United States, and how, like Latinx and Muslim Americans, Arab Americans have become central to immigration debates and white nationalist movements in the twenty-first century. Learn about the contemporary nature of anti-Arab prejudice and discrimination and how it is rooted in the past.

The video features a 2016 clip of Vice Presidential candidate Michael Pence explaining his opposition to immigration from Syria, the opposition of Arab Americans to this ban, and then a discussion by Dr. Mohammad Al-Haddad and Dr. Shadia Jalal about the history of anti-Arab discrimination and how they sometimes encounter such prejudices in medical practice.