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Pathbreakers of Arab America—Ali Jihad Racy
Sep 2, 2026
Photo: Herb Alpert School of Music--Seven Seas Music By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 132d article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science,(...)
Palestinian Elections Under Israeli Occupation Would be Ill-Advised
Sep 2, 2026
Photo: Wikimedia Commons By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Elections under occupation are like surgery in an unsterile environment: high-risk by design. Palestine's occupation keeps its people unrepresented, divided, poorly led, with mixed opinions about launching unsymmetrical wars(...)
After the Encampments: Palestine, Higher Ed and Free Speech
Sep 2, 2026
Image by Wikimedia Commons By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer The Encampments One sunny day in late April 2024, my university’s lawn was transformed into a liberated zone, an impromptu place of non-violent resistance. Students, grad students, professors(...)
Ruṭabiyah-Made of Dates
Aug 26, 2026
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The importance of dates in the diet of the Bedouin - a diet eaten for centuries in the Arabian Peninsula, led the Bedouin to call dates ‘the bread of the desert’. Dates are(...)
Solidarity Against Occupation: From Ukraine to Palestine
Aug 26, 2026
Image by Wikimedia Commons By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer At the end of 2024, I found myself at a Slavic conference in Boston, in the second year of the genocide in Gaza and the third year of(...)
Siege of Taybeh: The Christian Bulwark of the West Bank
Aug 26, 2026
Image: Julien Harneis from Conakry, Guinea, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer The West Bank of Palestine has been the target of increasing harassment and violence from illegal Israeli settlers(...)
Public Health Crisis on Women in Gaza
Aug 26, 2026
Photo Credit: Women weep at the destruction of Khan Younis camp in Gaza during the second intifada. © 2001 UNRWA Photo by Adnan Abu Hasna (Wikicommons) By: Nadia Boughanmi / Contributing Arab America Writer1 million, the amount of women that are(...)
Israel's Current Path Threatens Its Future
Aug 26, 2026
Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Israel nowadays treats military force as an inexhaustible resource and diplomacy as an expendable luxury. Since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack — which Israel has treated as an(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Noor Tagouri
Aug 26, 2026
Photo Wikipedia By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 131st article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism, and politics.(...)
Why is Riyadh the Capital of Saudi Arabia?
Aug 26, 2026
Image: NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer A question often heard in Arab and non-Arab communities alike is the question of why Riyadh is the capital of Saudi(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America— John Makhoul
Aug 19, 2026
Photo-Center for Arabic Culture By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 130th article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism,(...)
Music Between Tarab and Arabesque: A Conversation With Firas Zreik
Aug 19, 2026
Photo Credit: Oukool Creative By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer Firas Zreik is a Palestinian musician, composer, and educator currently based in New York City. His bold experimentation across genres blends Arab music, jazz, and many other musical(...)5,200 Results (Page 6 of 434)