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Comedian Maysoon Zayid to Perform at Annual CONNECT Empowerment Summit in New York/New Jersey, October 24-25, 2025
Sep 3, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGISTER HERE (WASHINGTON, D.C., September 4, 2025) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce that Palestinian American actress, comedian, and author Maysoon Zayid will perform at the CONNECT Empowerment Summit to be held on Friday, October(...)
Cross-cultural Craft: An Intersection Between Arabic Calligraphy And Western Art
Sep 3, 2025
By: Laila Mamdouh / Arab America Contributing Writer What if words could move? What if letters could gallop like horses, glow like candles, or rise like domes against the sky? In Arabic calligraphy, this is not just imagination, it is(...)
Invisible Effects of Arab America’s “Whiteness”
Sep 3, 2025
An Arab boy and girl. Photo Credit: Abdulmomn Kadhim via Wikimedia - Public Domain By: Ramsey Zeidan / Arab America Contributing Writer For the past century, the United States has rapidly evolved its understanding of race. From dehumanizing immigration quotas(...)
The Decline of Turkish and Israeli Cooperation
Sep 2, 2025
Photo Credit: Four Flags – Turkey and Israel in the Sky via Wikimedia Commons. By: Amir Kobeissi / Arab America Contributing Writer Turkey and Israel have maintained what appeared to be a working relationship for decades, but this has quickly(...)
Meat-Egg Roll – Zunoud al-Banaat
Sep 1, 2025
Photo Credit: Pexels By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer I first dined on this dish in Damascus, the oldest city in the world and capital of modern Syria. The dish was the entrée and it was served with fried potatoes(...)
The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?
Aug 27, 2025
By Susan M. Akram The New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” is the outcome document of the conference of the same name held from July 28-30, 2025,(...)
Israel's Denial Syndrome: How Language Obscures Reality
Aug 27, 2025
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Last week, when five Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli bombing campaign that included Nasser Hospital—one of Gaza's few remaining health facilities—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed their deaths as a "tragic(...)
Piecing the Puzzle: Arab, American… or Perfectly In Between?
Aug 27, 2025
Photo Credit: Arab America Foundation By: Laila Mamdouh / Arab America Contributing Writer At first, identity feels simple. We grow up knowing exactly where we belong, puzzle pieces snug in their place, part of a picture that makes perfect sense.(...)
Dean Obeidallah to Speak at Annual CONNECT Empowerment Summit in New York/New Jersey, October 24-25, 2025
Aug 27, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGISTER HERE (WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2025) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce that writer, comedian, and talk show host Dean Obeidallah will speak at the CONNECT Empowerment Summit to be held on Friday, October(...)
Refugee Voices Through Art
Aug 27, 2025
Photo Credit: Pexels By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer Arab refugees have survived wars, occupations, and forced migrations that have displaced millions of people. Beyond the numbers and the headlines, refugees have experiences that are frequently disregarded(...)
Killing of “Palestinian Pele” Leads to Reckoning in European Soccer
Aug 27, 2025
Photo Credit: Pexels By: Jake Harris / Arab America Contributing Writer Suleiman al-Obeid, labelled by Palestinian Soccer fans as the “Palestinian Pele” was killed by the IDF on August 6th, 2025 while awaiting humanitarian aid in Gaza. Suleiman was one(...)
The Rise of Ethnic Enclaves: Little Arabia
Aug 27, 2025
Source: Instagram, ArabCouncil and littlearabiadistrict By Rena Elhessen/Arab America Contributing Writer Beginning in the early 1900s, immigrants would settle in communities with a shared demographic. People arriving from the same global region or country found themselves in a singular community.(...)4,927 Results (Page 17 of 411)