The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto:

When people ask what I'm passionate about, Judaism, likely, comes first. If you ask where I'm from, the answer is Israel, so usually a dead giveaway. But if you dive into my ethnicity or race, I will tell you that my family comes from North Africa and the Middle East-Tunisia, and Iraq, to be more specific. So you're Arab? people often ask. And I respond, no, I'm a Jew. I'm Mizrahi. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa are known as Mizrahim. But few people-Jewish and non-Jewish alike...