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The traditional Thanksgiving meal: turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and hummus. Yes, hummus. For Denise Hazime, of Mediterranean cooking website DedeMed.com, her family tries to keep a “traditional” Thanksgiving, but a few Lebanese favorites might wiggle their way next to the turkey. “There will be hummus, tabouli salad, garlic dip, batata harra, which is … Continued

As an Arab-American, Thanksgiving is an especially wonderful holiday. I have even more things to be thankful for than the average non-Arab-American. America is the place where my parents came and found a new life after becoming Palestinian refugees. My father was exiled from Palestine at the age of one month, and my mother was … Continued

In Their Boots is a documentary series about the impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on people here at home. Every episode features a documentary about how America’s servicemen and women, their families, and our communities have been profoundly changed by our nation’s campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shot on location throughout … Continued

It often takes years, even decades for an ethnic community to muster the money and the resources to build a cultural garden in Rockefeller Park. The Syrian-American community may have set a new example of perseverance. Masons and landscapers are busily at work on a Syrian Cultural Garden — 81 years after the community was … Continued

Qatar will open a new museum on Dec. 30 devoted to modern Arab art in its capital, Doha. Called Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, it will house a collection of more than 6,000 works, spanning the 1840s to the present and representing major artistic trends. Its opening exhibition, “Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art,” … Continued

Syrian archaeologists Unearthed a stone statue dating back to the early 4th century B.C. was unearthed in Kadmous, Tartous, on the Syrian coast reports Global Arab Network according to Syrian sources. The statue is broken into three 118-centimeters-long, 242- centimetres-high pieces of the solid, white limestone. ”The first piece of the statue represents part of … Continued

A visitor stands on a mosaic showing a map of Europe and North Africa in Lisbon, Portugal. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) TAVIRA, Portugal – While converting the 16th-century Convento da Graça into a luxury hotel, developers ran into an unexpected problem that canceled plans for a basement spa and pool. Beneath the old convent and the … Continued

French archaeologists in Syria have discovered the world’s oldest sculpture of a hawk, which dates back to the 10th millennium B.C. According to al-Baath Newspaper, the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in the Ministry of Culture said the hawk sculpture was unearthed during the archaeological work in the area of Belaas, Hama, central Syria. … Continued