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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(...)
Rise of Antisemitism Must not End the Dialogue with Palestinians
Jun 11, 2025
Protest in downtown Seattle with Jewish Voice for Peace. Jewish Voice for Peace - Wikimedia - CC BY 2.0 By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer While American Arabs are enraged by Israel's territorial hegemony, the American Jewish community is(...)
Italian Protests Over Italy’s Silence on Gaza
Jun 11, 2025
Photo Credit: jimmyweee via Wikimedia Commons – CC BY 2.0 By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America contributing writer June 7, 2025, marked a significant day for Italians, activists, and particularly for the global Palestinian solidarity movement. Approximately 300,000 individuals(...)
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(...)
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America Contributing Writer President Trump has reinstated a travel ban for 19 countries, expanding his previously repealed ban from his first term.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(...)
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(...)
A New Era of AI Strategy in the Gulf
Jun 4, 2025
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons By: Ramsey Zeidan / Arab America Contributing Writer In the new age of Artificial Intelligence, governments are forced to invest in AI or risk falling behind. AI capabilities now mean geopolitical power, and few countries understand(...)
Mario Parodi - Ottoman-born Italian Guitar Maestro
Jun 4, 2025
Mario Parodi Album Cover. Photo credit: Hage family collection By: Ralph I. Hage / Arab America Contributing Writer Mario Parodi was an Italian classical guitarist. But he wasn’t just any guitarist. He was one of the most talented to have(...)
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(...)4,951 Results (Page 30 of 413)