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Steven's PhotoOf Jordanian and Palestinian origin, Steven Salaita was born and raised in Appalachia on the Virginia/West Virginia border.  His academic interests include Arab America, Native America, the Near East, literary theory, and American multiculturalism.  He is the author of The Uncultured Wars : Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought - New Essays, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA, The Holy Land in Transit:  Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan, and Arab American Cultures, Politics, and Literary Fictions, and has been published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals.  He served several years the as Executive Director of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc., [RAWI], an organization devoted to the arts inside and outside of the Arab American community.  Steven Salaita is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech.