Our Voices is a distinctive reader for the intercultural communication course, featuring the actual voices of contributors writing from their own particular cultural setting. While most readers are collections of scholarly essays that describe intercultural communication, Our Voices presents short, student-oriented readings that are first person narratives chosen with an eye toward engaging the reader. Collectively, the readings tackle key areas of communication: rhetoric, mass communication, and interpersonal communication, but they do so with an unusually expansive perspective that gives a voice to folks that are often marginalized.

The new edition will expand on its treatment of Arab Americans, and the Muslim world in general, and will ratchet back some of the 4th editions timely but now passe treatment of 9-11 specifically.

This is the book that presents first-person essays, from a broad and inclusive array of cultures, which are short and engaging enough to keep students' interest. It is an ideal supplement for any Intercultural text.