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Nabeel Abraham (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and activist. His research focuses around Arab-Americans and how Arabs and Palestinians are represented mainstream American media.
Abraham was born in 1950 in North Carolina. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1955, where his fathered started a business, a retail shop, on Michigan Avenue. His family is originally from Palestine. Abraham attended Cass Technical High School. He warned degrees in anthropology and sociology from Wayne State University. He earned his master's degree the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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 served as a columnist for Lies of Our Times until it ceased publishing in 1994 and also contributed to Middle East Report. He is the co-editor of the seminal work 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 1960s Detroit.