Arab America is proud to announce the premiere of Season 4 of Arab America Television. This season has both new shows and some returning favorites sure to satisfy all our viewers. Returning shows include “Arab America Stories” and “Sleepless in Gaza and Jerusalem” now in their new time slots scheduled from 10AM to 12Pm daily. … Continued
BY: Adriana Murray/Contributing Writer After months of being discrete, American pop icon Janet Jackson has gone public with her big news. Initially reported several months ago, Janet Jackson said she was postponing her tour to start a family with Qatari husband, Wissam Al Mana. At age 50, Janet Jackson is expecting her first child with her the … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Indian couples are opening up their weddings to visitors from around the world. For a fee, people from other countries can travel to India to observe a traditional Indian wedding. Couples have begun doing this to cover the expenses of their weddings, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Included … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Former Miss USA Rima Fakih announced her pregnancy on the latest cover of Marie Claire Arabia. Fakih shows off her baby bump while wearing a red dress in the October issue. Back in May, Fakih married music producer Wassim Salibi at an elaborate wedding near Beirut in Lebanon. Both Fakih and … Continued
Baladi Festival On the Golden Coast BY: Sami Asmar/Contributing Writer The romantic city of Santa Barbara on the beautiful California coast is a mecca for tourism as well as the home of one of the campuses of the University of California. Just like its older sister UCLA, UC Santa Barbara has a music department with … Continued
BY: Marissa Ovassapian/Contributing Writer As an Armenian working at an Arab media outlet, who speaks Arabic, and has traveled to the Arab World, I have come to notice many parallels between the Armenian and Arab cultures. As different as we may be, we share more similarities than most people realize. Here are 12 characteristics that … Continued
Advance tickets go on sale Thursday, September 29. They will be available through Missiontix.com until midnight the day before the show. No Missiontix.com sales on the day of show. We always reserve a number of tickets to be sold at the theater starting one hour before the first show, even when advance tickets are … Continued
By Dean Obeidallah CNN Samantha Bee really went after Jimmy Fallon this week for his Donald Trump interview. In truth, he treated the GOP presidential nominee like a Kardashian. It was jokes and cuteness to the max, with Fallon even begging for permission to mess up Trump’s orangish hair. (After some manufactured coyness, Trump agreed.) … Continued
RAYANA KHALAF Stepfeed Palestinians have long rendered their plight into powerful pieces of art, demanding that people understand not just the facts, but the hearts, behind a struggle that has for so long been overly represented by their occupiers. Palestinian filmmakers have broken out of the shackles of restrictions to movement and an all-round daily struggle to make films … Continued
by Hadeer Elsbai The Mary Sue Arabs in the United States occupy an odd state of liminality. They are undeniably a minority group, and yet are officially classified by the US Census as white. Because they tend to be associated with Islam, they are often the subject of news coverage and panels, making them incredibly … Continued
by Khaled A Beydoun Aljazeera Narrow conceptions and caricatures of Arab identity are deeply rooted in Hollywood. The hijacker and the terrorist, the opulently wealthy oil sheikh and the oppressed and over-dressed woman, among others, comprise the most prominent depictions of Arab identity in film and television. These negative illustrations of Arabs are built upon a … Continued
BY HANNAH ALLAM McClatchy DC Three days after the Emmys, the Arab diaspora is still abuzz about Egyptian-American Rami Malek’s groundbreaking win for best actor in a drama series for his role as a hacker on the USA Network’s Mr. Robot. Malek was the first nonwhite actor to win in that category since 1998. Arabs … Continued
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