While we're on the subject of comics' ability to show how the world looks through another's eyes, this new 118 page graphic memoir, also published by Last Gasp (which seems to be on a mission to broaden American's perspectives), promises its readers, "The eye-opening story of the life of an average Arab-American struggling with his identity in an increasingly hostile nation."  Moving with his family from Beirut to Chicago a year after his birth in 1978, El Rassi is well positioned to illustrate the prejudice and discrimination Arabs and Muslims experience in American society.  He recounts his personal experiences after the 9/11 attacks and during the implementation of new security and immigration laws that followed, and gives context to current world events, providing readers with an overview of the modern history of the Middle East, including the Gulf wars.  In addition, Arab in America includes several asides that examine the roles American films and news media play in creating negative stereotypes of Arab-Americans, in order to demonstrate how difficult it is to have an Arab identity in a society saturated with anti-Arab images and messages.