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Pathbreakers of Arab America—Suhel Nafar
Jun 11, 2025
Photo: Instagram By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the eighty-fifth in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features personalities from various fields, including entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism,(...)
Baba’s Time is Here: What Father’s Day Means to Young Arab Americans
Jun 11, 2025
Photo credit: Pexels By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer Father’s Day was originally a Western celebration more so than Middle Eastern. Al-Jazeera, in looking into the Arab celebration of Fathers, found that its Western origin dates to at(...)
Arab Polytheism: Religion Before Muhammed
Jun 11, 2025
The Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia Photo Credit: Pixels By: Jake Harris / Arab America contributing writer Islam and the Arab world have a long, shared religious bond going from the Kaaba at Mecca to the Moroccan coast bordering the Atlantic(...)
Trump's Travel Ban-What You Need to Know
Jun 11, 2025
Source: Pexels By Rena Elhessen/Arab America Contributing Writer President Trump has reinstated a travel ban for 19 countries, expanding his previously repealed ban from his first term. When the first travel ban came into fruition, it was scrutinized by the(...)
Flotillas and Freedom: The History and Journey Ahead
Jun 11, 2025
The Freedom Interception by Carlos Lattuf. Photo Credit: Wikimedia - Free Art License By: Ramsey Zeidan / Arab America Contributing Writer On Monday, the viral Gaza freedom flotilla Madleen, carrying Swedish human rights activist Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers,(...)
Arab America Foundation Announces Connect Arab America: Empowerment Summit October 24-25, 2025 in New Jersey, New York
Jun 11, 2025
REGISTER HERE! For Immediate Release Washington DC (June 10, 2025): The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce the CONNECT Empowerment Summit to be held, on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2025, at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe,(...)
Stanford Hunger Strikes
Jun 10, 2025
Pro Palestine protest and encampment in White Memorial Plaza in Stanford University in late April 2024. Photo credit: Suiren2022 - Wikimedia - CC BY 4.0 - unaltered photo By: Laila Ali / Arab America Contributing Writer For 24 days, Stanford(...)
It’s Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. So Reprehensible, So Urgent, It Needs Repeating.
Jun 10, 2025
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. Photo credit: Ashraf Amra - Wikimedia - CC BY-SA 4.0 - unaltered photo By: B. Nimri Aziz / Arab America Contributing Writer “Starving children”, if you(...)
Byzantine Influence on Early Islamic Architecture
Jun 4, 2025
Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo credit: Pexels By: Ralph I. Hage / Arab America Contributing Writer Early Islamic and Byzantine architecture share common features such as domes, arches, and mosaics. This is due to their shared cultural heritage and(...)
The Man Who Visited Death- A Poem by Samih Al-Qasim
Jun 4, 2025
Palestinian Poet Samih Al-Qasim, Source: Wikimedia Commons By Luke McMahan/ Arab America Contributing Writer Luke McMahan has been a student of Arabic for two and a half years; and all throughout this time he has been told how wonderful Arabic(...)
When Jordan and Iraq United: The Arab Federation
Jun 4, 2025
Jordan (in orange) and Iraq (in green). Picture: Wikipedia Commons By Liam Nagle / Arab America Contributing Writer When one thinks of Pan-Arabism and Arab unification, they might think of the United Arab Republic – the unification of Syria and(...)
A Warning from an Arab American to his Divided Country
Jun 4, 2025
Photo: 123rf By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer As a young man, I never imagined leaving my homeland behind: for me, Lebanon was the place to be. True, there was considerable corruption; we took explicit sectarian power sharing for(...)4,892 Results (Page 25 of 408)