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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,(...)
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(...)
Potato and Sumac Appetizer
Jun 11, 2025
Photo Credit: Pexel By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The first time I had a taste of sumac was when my father had ordered it along with some other Syrian food ingredients from an Arab wholesaler in Montreal. This was(...)
8 Arabic Language Songs For Arabic Language Learners
Jun 11, 2025
Source: Pexels By Katie Beason / Arab America Contributing Writer One tried and true method of all language learners in listening to songs in their target language, especially for Arabic language acquisition. Learning Arabic as a non-heritage speaker can be(...)
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(...)
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 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(...)
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(...)4,667 Results (Page 6 of 389)