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Top 10 Suggestions to Make Your Picnic More Arab in America

By Myrna Daher/Contributing Writer Arabs are known for their lavish dress designs and extraordinary parties, which certainly include something as laid-back as a picnic. In reality the picnic is just another reason for Arabs to gather and exchange dishes, play tawleh/backgammon and cards, while dancing to Arab music, and smoking hookah. The Arabs take great … Continued

7 Arab Drinks to Cool Off Your Summer!

By: Yara Jouzy/ Contributing Writer It’s July and the heat is only going to get worse during August.  So, as the summer gets hotter, we try to find new ways to get cooler.  What would be a better way to do so than with refreshing Arab summer drinks? It’s all about the fresh fruit juices, … Continued

10 Challenges Arab Teenagers Face in America

By Laila Elreedi/ Contributing Writer Countless times, we, as teens have heard adults claim, “teens these days have it easy.” I mean, let’s face it, we do have access to a great number of services and instant resources and information at our fingertips through smartphones and apps. We can simply check the weather, get directions, … Continued

The Secrets Behind the Most Popular Arab Food in the World

Nur Watad/ Arab America Ambassador Blogger Served often as a mezza/hordeurve, a full meal course, as street food, or as a main dish, falafel reaches mass popularity all over the world as one of the most favorite Arab foods. Falafel is a traditional Arab food found all over the Sham (Greater Syria) and Arab African … Continued

Chaldean soccer star in US speaks up for detained Iraqis

Source: Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – As an American soccer player of Iraqi parents, Justin Meram is distressed by detentions and deportation threats within his Chaldean Christian community, a fallout of the US government’s agreement with Baghdad to remove Iraq from its travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries. “Being a Chaldean American, being an Iraqi … Continued

El-Yateem will file 2,850 petition signatures to get on ballot

By: Paula Katinas Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Rev. Khader El-Yateem apparently isn’t taking any chances. A City Council candidate hoping to get his or her name on the ballot for the Sept. 12 primary is required by election law to submit at least 450 signatures from voters in the district who are registered in the … Continued

50 Years Ago This Week: The Middle East in Turmoil

Source: Time By: Lily Rothman Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME. Catch up on last … Continued

Film Release: “Letters from Baghdad” Opens Across the U.S.

Letters From Baghdad More influential than her friend and colleague T.E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia), why she (Gertrude Bell) has been written out of the history she helped make? Voiced and executive produced by Academy Award winning actor Tilda Swinton, Letters from Baghdad tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of British spy, explorer and … Continued

Jack Shaheen, who worked to dismantle Arab stereotypes in media, dies at 81

  Jack G. Shaheen in an undated photo. (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) By Adam Bernstein and Abigail Hauslohner July 11 at 3:34 PM Jack G. Shaheen, an Arab American scholar, author and activist who devoted his career to challenging venomous stereotypes of Arabs in film and television — usually depicted, he once said, as “billionaires, bombers and belly dancers” … Continued

Shisha Use Popular Among Young Adults and Teens in U.S.

By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer Shisha has found a home far from its birthplace in the Middle East. Its new home is within the dusty college dorms, tiny sublets, and shared apartments of young adults in the United States. An alternative to cigarettes, the tobacco-based product has enjoyed a relative increase in usage among the … Continued

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