“I would have never guessed you were Syrian. You don’t even look Arab,” he told the blonde and blue-eyed Gorani. She never saw him again, but that defining phrase became the title of her highly anticipated memoir, “But You Don’t Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging,” which has been newly released in the US and the UK. “The title came before the book, because I’ve heard it my whole life,” Gorani told Arab News from her home in London. “I don’t look anything like a typical Arab in the stereotype that people have in their minds.”
Veteran Arab-American reporter Hala Gorani launches new book
