Discover the remarkable historical influence of legal immigrants and the significance of legal immigration to the United States.
Accomplished author and first-generation immigrant Ghazi Rayan, MD, has penned yet another stellar title that celebrates the contributions legal immigrants have made to America. Introducing Immigrant Intellectuals: a narrative centered on the most influential minds that laid the foundation for America's early intellectual landscape.
Immigrant Intellectuals compiles captivating biographies of many leading first-generation immigrant intellectuals who made groundbreaking contributions that laid the foundation for current knowledge and thought. The book seamlessly combines the history of wisdom, journalism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, poetry, narrative fiction, and religion, and demonstrates how they evolved from the earliest human civilizations of Mesopotamia through modernity.
The book includes dozens of profiles of journalists, historians, novelists, poets, philosophers, environmentalists, and clergy, which showcase these immigrants' struggles and triumphs in informative and entertaining ways. The book also highlights the roles women played as resourceful intellectuals even when they were oppressed and fighting for their rights. Using pseudonyms, they disseminated their ideas through the written word.
Written for readers with an interest in history or immigrants' cerebral contributions, Immigrant Intellectuals seeks to encourage a hopeful outlook for legal immigration and shift the perspective about the need for our generation to have similar attitudes to those of our forefathers toward immigrants-focusing more on the beneficence of America's early policy of diversity and inclusivity.
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Ghazi Rayan, MD, is a first-generation immigrant and professor emeritus of orthopedic surgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He founded Oklahoma's first Hand Surgery fellowship and served as president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Doctor Rayan devoted his professional career providing orthopedic upper extremity and hand surgery to Oklahoma's communities. As dedicated educator and researcher, he gave over 300 national and international presentations and authored several academic books, over 40 surgical book chapters, and more than 200 scientific articles. Outside of academia, Ghazi's nonfiction works include: · Trilogy of Perseverance and Friendship in the Golden Years · Immigrants who Founded and Fostered an Early Nation· Immigrant Physicians: Their Contributions and Influence on American Medical History · Immigrant Inventors Their Pursuit in Shaping American Ingenuity Ghazi lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, continues teaching, enjoys time with his three grandchildren, and remains passionate about biking, reading, writing, and traveling.