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The New Pope’s First Trip
Dec 3, 2025
Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media. Photo by Edgar Beltrán/ The Pillar, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Robert Jackson/Arab America Contributing Writer The first overseas trip by a pope is always an important one. Pope(...)
Bil’in: A Symbol of Freedom Against the Wall
Dec 3, 2025
Bil'in Palestinian demonstration against the Israeli wall, 2009. Photo by shimriz, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By: Emma Campbell / Arab America Contributing Writer In the Palestinian village of Bil’in, just outside Ramallah, a powerful grassroots movement has challenged(...)
Reclaiming Deep Roots: The Arab World’s Revival of Indigenous Heritage
Dec 3, 2025
Photo Credit: anonymous via Wikimedia Commons CC by 1.0 By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer An interesting cultural change is occurring throughout the Arab world, one that looks not only to Islamic or Arab nationalist identity but(...)
Why Trump's Ukraine Gambit Will Repeat His Gaza Mistakes
Dec 3, 2025
Photo: Wikimedia Commons--Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing WriterAs the Trump administration pivots from its faltering Gaza ceasefire to an overambitious Ukraine peace proposal, a troubling pattern emerges: the same transactional diplomatic team(...)
Eggplant Tortilla - Tortilla de Berenjena
Dec 1, 2025
Photo Credit: Wiki Commons By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer One of the most important new vegetable crops introduced by the Arabs to the Iberian Peninsula and later to Sicily was the eggplant. Four varieties were grown in Spain: the(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Kareem El-Badry
Nov 26, 2025
Photo -- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the one-hundred and first in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features personalities from various fields,(...)
The Legend of Pumpkin Kibbeh: A Lebanese Twist For Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 2025
By: Blanche Shaheen/Arab America Contributing Writer Long ago, when the mountains of northern Lebanon were dotted with stone houses and terraced fields, Roman patrols moved through the region searching for rebels who refused to bow to imperial taxes. One small(...)
The Arab Ocean Economy
Nov 26, 2025
Photo Credit: AlfvanBeem via Wikimedia Commons CC by 1.0 By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer One of the world's most strategically important oceanic footprints is found in the Arab world. Arab states, which span the Mediterranean Sea,(...)
Arab Leaders: Publicly Critical of Israel, Privately Making Deals
Nov 26, 2025
Photo: Wikimedia Commons--Sharm El Sheikh Summit for Peace, 13 October 2025 (Roman Ismayilov) 19.jpg By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer One day, Israel might become an integral part of the Middle East, but only if the Jewish state(...)
Classroom Silencing: How U.S. Teachers Are Punished for Discussing Palestine
Nov 26, 2025
Photo Credit: Katerina Holmes, Pexels By: Layla Mahmoud / Arab America Contributing Writer Across the United States, teachers who try to discuss Palestine in their classrooms are finding themselves silenced or even pushed out of their jobs. What used to(...)
Why U.S. Foreign Policy Doesn't Understand the Arab World
Nov 26, 2025
Photo Credit: Capt. Michael Lovas (Wikimedia Commons) By: Robert Jackson / Arab America Contributing Writer The U.S. has been heavily involved in the Arab world for decades, yet it often falls short of its goals. From Iraq to Libya to(...)
Thanksgiving in the Arab American Community
Nov 26, 2025
Photo By Ben Franske, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jake Harris / Arab America Contributing Writer Thanksgiving in the United States is totally ingrained in the nation's cultural fabric. Known for Apple Pie, Turkey, Stuffing, Football, Family. Unlike other(...)4,860 Results (Page 1 of 405)