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A Love Song to Eternity: Fairuz's 'Bektob Ismak Ya Habibi'
Sep 18, 2024
Image of Fairuz : Photo Source : Wikimedia Commons By: Fedal Hanoun / Arab America Contributing Writer The Song's Significance and Fairuz's Cultural Influence Fairuz, a Lebanese singing icon, has captured listeners internationally with her wonderful voice and expressive lyrics.(...)
The Culinary Diversity of the Levant: Comparing Traditional Dishes Across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine
Sep 18, 2024
Photo of Levantine dish. Source: Wikicommons By: Rania Basria / Arab America Contributing Writer Imagine the Levant not just as a geographical region, but also as a vast kitchen where each country prepares its own interpretation of its shared tradition. (...)
The Foods of Eternal Damascus
Sep 17, 2024
Syrian meal: Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The Byzantine Emperor Justinian called it `the light of the Orient'; the writer Maurice Barres is reported to have said `Damascus is not a mere area of land,(...)
Resisting Erasure
Sep 11, 2024
By: Samira Rafidi Meghdessian with Joseph Eric Cadora / Arab America Contributing Writers When I first picked up A History of the City of Ramallah (its original Arabic title), it had been on my parents’ bookshelf for years and was(...)
The US Obsession with Ceasefire Terms in Gaza Camouflages the Roots of Injustice to Palestinians
Sep 11, 2024
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer For two months now, the White House has been announcing that a ceasefire in Gaza is just around the corner. By all indications, it is not. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu still insists(...)
9/11 as a Turning Point in El Rassi’s Memoir
Sep 11, 2024
Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi. Last Gasp, 2007. By Arwa Almasaari / Arab America Contributing Writer The tragic events of September 11, 2001, led to a rise in Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in the U.S. However, it is(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Reem Kassis
Sep 11, 2024
Reem in the market -- Photo Wikipedia By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the fifty-eighth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism,(...)
Troubling Terminology
Sep 11, 2024
By: Miko Peled / Arab America Contributing Writer Palestine has been dissected and every region within it separated from the rest of the country. This was planned and executed by the Zionist state very early on. This separation has given(...)
Al-Zahawi: Iraqi Anti-Establishment Poet
Sep 11, 2024
Iraqi Poet Al-Zahawi, Source: Wikimedia Commons By Luke McMahan/ Arab America Contributing Writer Jamil Sidqi Al-Zahawi (جميل صدقي الزهاوي) was born in Baghdad in 1863 to a religiously conservative family, with his father serving as the Grand Mufti of an(...)
Rami Khouri, Palestinian-American Academic and Journalist, to Speak at Connect Arab America Empowerment Summit 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan
Sep 11, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGISTER HERE (WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2024) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce Rami Khouri will speak at the CONNECT Arab America: Empowerment Summit, which will be held on Friday, October 25, and Saturday, October 26,(...)
Transforming Futures: How The U.S. Department of State Empowers Arab Youth
Sep 11, 2024
Source: WikiCommons. This picture shows a photography portrait of the State Department headquarters building. By: Yara Marei / Arab America Contributing Writer For many young people in the Arab world, the idea of studying or participating in an exchange program(...)
Urban Warfare and Resistance: The Battle of Algiers and the Fight for Algerian Independence
Sep 11, 2024
Photo: Wikipedia Commons By: Rania Basria / Arab America Contributing Writer The Battle of Algiers, fought between 1956 and 1957, remains one of the most crucial and terrible battles of Algeria's War of Independence (1954-1962). The National Liberation Front (FLN)(...)4,351 Results (Page 11 of 363)