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PLO condemns US lawmakers for bill targeting payments to terrorists
Aug 19, 2017
SOURCE: THE TIMES OF ISRAEL The Palestine Liberation Organization condemned a move by US senators to slash aid to the Palestinian Authority over its stipends to terrorists and their families, saying the proposed legislation amounted to financial extortion(...)
Q&A: Filmmaker on FBI surveillance of her neighborhood and the fight for the records that prove it
Aug 19, 2017
SOURCE: COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW BY: JACKIE SPINNER A still from Assia Boundaoui's film, The Feeling of Being Watched. Courtesy of Assia Boundaoui. GROWING UP, ASSIA BOUNDAOUI felt like she was being watched. She wasn’t the only one. Just about everyone(...)
Iraq’s legendary fashion house revived
Aug 19, 2017
SOURCE: ALMONITOR BY: WASSIM BASSEM BAGHDAD — Models dressed in clothes reminiscent of Iraq’s multicultural past walked among the imposing statues at the Iraqi Museum in an impressive show in July that celebrated the liberation of Mosul, as the Iraqi House of Fashion bolstered its cultural presence(...)
Rasmieh Odeh ordered to be deported, pay $1,000 for immigration conviction
Aug 18, 2017
SOURCE: DETROIT FREE PRESS BY: NIRAJ WARIKOO Rasmieh Odeh, speaks outside of the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit after a federal judge ordered Rasmieh Odeh, a former Michigan resident, to pay a $1,000 fine and be deported to Jordan. Mandi Wright,(...)
Bella Hadid Covers 'Vogue Arabia's First September Issue -- See the Pics!
Aug 18, 2017
Source: NBC News 9 By: Jennifer Drysdale Bella Hadid covers the magazine's first September issue, months after her sister, Gigi, graced the cover of its first-ever issue in March. RELATED: Gigi Hadid Pays Tribute to Palestinian Roots in First Ever(...)
Ilan Pappe talks about the Middle East: 'Change will come'
Aug 18, 2017
Source: CS Monitor By: Steve Donoghue AUGUST 15, 2017 —Historian Ilan Pappe's new book The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories continues his work of shining new analytical light on the seemingly intractable Israel-Palestine conflict, following up earlier books(...)
Book Review: The powerful story of a Christian family in Iraq
Aug 18, 2017
Source: Arab News By: Manal Shakir “The Baghdad Eucharist” tells the heartbreaking tale of a Christian family in Iraq who must navigate through the ups and downs of life, political upheaval, religious strife and war. Sinan Antoon, a well-known novelist(...)
How to be a Palestinian supermom
Aug 18, 2017
Source: Al Jazeera By: HyoJin Park8 Nabi Saleh, occupied West Bank - Friday is a day of protest in Nabi Saleh. Manal Tamimi has been going to these protests for as long as she can remember. To her, to be a(...)
Women’s March to reconvene around 2018 after Charlottesville
Aug 18, 2017
Source: USA Today By: Heidi Przybyla WASHINGTON — The Women’s March, which organized the biggest national protest in U.S. history, is reconvening. The goal is to direct its resources and grassroots network toward the 2018 midterm elections. For the first time(...)
Buzzfeed’s “See Something Say Something” podcast draws crowd to talk about Muslim issues
Aug 17, 2017
Source: Press and Guide By: Keith Salowich A podcast named one of the best new podcasts of 2016 by The New York Times and iTunes recorded its latest episode before a live audience in Dearborn. The Arab American National Museum’s(...)
64 Interesting Facts about Morocco
Aug 17, 2017
Source: Fact Retriever By: Jill Bartholomew An Arabic name for Morocco, al-Magrib al-Aqsa, means “the extreme west” and attests to Morocco’s place as the westernmost country in the Arab world.[7] Morocco is one of the world’s largest producers of illicit hashish.[7](...)
10 Arab Salads You Can't Miss This Summer
Aug 16, 2017
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Contributing Writer Arab food is filled with copious salads, small plates, and healthy toppings to heavy dishes. Using the vegetables and herbs native to the lands of our ancestors, Arab Americans have maintained salad traditions in daily life.(...)961 Results (Page 1 of 81)
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