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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(...)
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(...)
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(...)
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(...)
Israel Planning to Expand West Bank Settlements Further
Jun 4, 2025
Qalqilya, Palestine. Photo Credit: Pexels By: Jake Harris / Arab America contributing writer The year is 1967, tensions had been building between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors. Much of this tension can be traced back to the(...)
A Rising Epicenter of Music in Gulf States
Jun 4, 2025
Source: Pexels By: Rena Elhessen / Arab America Contributing Writer Saudi Arabia is among the Gulf states that are bringing forth a new era of music to the region. American metal and rock bands are performing in Gulf countries, some(...)
The Met Announces the Repatriation of 3 Stolen Artifacts to Iraq
Jun 4, 2025
Photo: Hugo Schneider - Flickr via Wikimedia - CC BY-SA 2.0 By: Katie Beason / Arab American Contributing Writer This May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the institution is returning three artifacts stolen from Iraq to the custody of the(...)5,156 Results (Page 48 of 430)