Samah Sabra

This dissertation is based on data collected through informal conversations, formal interviews, and participant observation at community events over sixteen months of fieldwork with Arab Canadians living in Ottawa, Ontario. Most literature on Canadian national identity focuses o…

In Imperial Eyes Mary Louise Pratt (1992: 7, emphasis original) defines autoethnography as "instances in which colonized subjects undertake to represent themselves in ways that engage with the colonizer's own terms ... in response to or in dialogue with ... metropolitan represen…