Tales from Arab Detroit ist den Genres Dokumentarfilm einzuordnen. Der Film ist vergleichbar mit Roots In The Wind, If Stone Could Speak (2008), Your Day Is My Night (2014), Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World (2013), Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America (2016), Evaporating Borders (2014), Bubot Niyar (2006), Spellbound (2002), Madeleine (2023), L'Aventure (2013), De Outro Sítio, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2003), Sydney Castells: Spirit of Catalunya (2023), Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory (2015), God Grew Tired of Us (2006), جزائرنا (Djazaïrouna) (1959), El Vacío (2019), Strangers for the Day (1962), Soon Come Back (2023) und Balseros (2002). Joan Mandell ist Regisseur von den Film.