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JUST IN CASE YOU'RE IGNORANT: There's something almost charming about books like Jonathan Curiel's , an earnest effort to demonstrate, through their contributions to American culture, that Arabs and Muslims are not such a scary Other but rather a part of the American cultural fabric, and have been so for a long time. There's a bit of "duh" factor to most of this, it sounds like, and we doubt that understanding how appropriation of Turkish music led to surf rock classics like "Miserlou" is going to sway your average Muslim-hater. Still, it's an interesting take and one little enough explored to justify heading up to Town Hall tonight to see Curiel speak.