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Stuffed Salmon Tunisian Style
Sep 2, 2026
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer In Tunisia, fish is a symbol of fertility, and prosperity. In parts of that land it is customary for a bride and groom to step over a large fish after their wedding. It is(...)
Middle Eastern No-Bake Protein Bites: 4 Dessert-Inspired Flavors
Sep 2, 2026
By: Blanche Shaheen/Arab America Contributing Writer You are sitting at work and that gnawing sugar craving hits you at 4:00 pm. Instead of derailing your nutrition by hitting up the vending machines, what if some of your favorite Middle Eastern(...)
Comoros: Arab by Tongue
Sep 2, 2026
Image: Daryl Wallace from Abu Dhabi, UAE, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer A unique but overlooked member of the Arab League is the archipelagic country of Comoros. Comoros is(...)
Riyadh Launches Digital Innovation District
Sep 2, 2026
Image: Ahmed, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer Last week, The Royal Commission for Riyadh City announced the Riyadh Digital District, a project launched to push the country into the(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Ali Jihad Racy
Sep 2, 2026
Photo: Herb Alpert School of Music--Seven Seas Music By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 132d article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science,(...)
Palestinian Elections Under Israeli Occupation Would be Ill-Advised
Sep 2, 2026
Photo: Wikimedia Commons By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Elections under occupation are like surgery in an unsterile environment: high-risk by design. Palestine's occupation keeps its people unrepresented, divided, poorly led, with mixed opinions about launching unsymmetrical wars(...)
After the Encampments: Palestine, Higher Ed and Free Speech
Sep 2, 2026
Image by Wikimedia Commons By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer The Encampments One sunny day in late April 2024, my university’s lawn was transformed into a liberated zone, an impromptu place of non-violent resistance. Students, grad students, professors(...)
Ruṭabiyah-Made of Dates
Aug 26, 2026
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The importance of dates in the diet of the Bedouin - a diet eaten for centuries in the Arabian Peninsula, led the Bedouin to call dates ‘the bread of the desert’. Dates are(...)
Solidarity Against Occupation: From Ukraine to Palestine
Aug 26, 2026
Image by Wikimedia Commons By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer At the end of 2024, I found myself at a Slavic conference in Boston, in the second year of the genocide in Gaza and the third year of(...)
Siege of Taybeh: The Christian Bulwark of the West Bank
Aug 26, 2026
Image: Julien Harneis from Conakry, Guinea, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer The West Bank of Palestine has been the target of increasing harassment and violence from illegal Israeli settlers(...)
Public Health Crisis on Women in Gaza
Aug 26, 2026
Photo Credit: Women weep at the destruction of Khan Younis camp in Gaza during the second intifada. © 2001 UNRWA Photo by Adnan Abu Hasna (Wikicommons) By: Nadia Boughanmi / Contributing Arab America Writer1 million, the amount of women that are(...)
Israel's Current Path Threatens Its Future
Aug 26, 2026
Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Israel nowadays treats military force as an inexhaustible resource and diplomacy as an expendable luxury. Since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack — which Israel has treated as an(...)5,144 Results (Page 1 of 429)