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Arab America Foundation Announces Confirmed Speakers and Performers for Annual CONNECT Empowerment Summit in New York/New Jersey, October 24-25, 2025

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGISTER HERE (WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20, 2025) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce its speakers for the CONNECT Empowerment Summit to be held on Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, 2025, at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe, 100 Frank W. Burr Boulevard, Teaneck, NJ. “The CONNECT Empowerment Summit is more than … Continued

Pathbreakers of Arab America—Randa Jarrar

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This is the ninety-second 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, and politics. Our ninety-second pathbreaker is Randa or Ra Jarrar, a Palestinian Egyptian/Arab American, award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator, stage performer, and teacher. Contributing writer, John Mason, highlights her depiction as “a fearless voice of dissent who has been called ‘politically incorrect.’

Antisemitism 101: Untangling the History and Politics of Antisemitism

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By: Laila Mamdouh / Arab America Contributing Writer In today’s fast-moving political debates, the word “antisemitism” is everywhere. It’s hurled in arguments, defended against in news cycles, and wielded as a charge in social media disputes. But pause for a moment: do we actually know what “Semitism” even means? Is it a religion? A race? … Continued

Language on the Brink: Arabic Dialects in Decline

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By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer Arabic is sometimes viewed as a single, united language, with soaring classical poetry, Quranic passages, and the shared medium of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). However, underlying this uniting layer is a huge and convoluted web of dialects spoken variants of Arabic that vary by region and … Continued

Disruption: Pro-Palestinian Protests in High Places

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By: Ramsey Zeidan / Arab America Contributing Writer Pro-Palestinian sentiment has reached an all time high globally as of 2025, and it’s reflected everywhere you look. Whether it’s speaking events, fashion shows, political forums, or concerts, people are making their voices heard. In particular, there’s been a growing trend in the last two years focusing … Continued

The Traditional Architecture of Kuwait – A Reflection of Culture, Climate, and Craftsmanship

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By Ralph I. Hage/ Arab America Contributing Writer Kuwait, a country nestled at the head of the Persian Gulf, has experienced rapid modernization over the last century. Yet, beneath the glass towers and sprawling highways lies a deep architectural heritage. Traditional Kuwaiti architecture, once widespread across the old districts of Kuwait City, is an expression … Continued

Pine Nut Taboula – Taboulat Snawbar

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By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Known as snawbar in in the Middle East where pine nuts have been on the daily menu since before Greek and Roman times, according to the 12th century Egyptian physician Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili, they are habb al-muluk (the nut of the kings). The medieval Arabic culinary texts include … Continued

The Spirit of Thawra (ﺛَﻮﺭَﺓ) – Sudan, Remember Us-Interview with Hind Meddeb

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By: Rena Elhessen/Arab America Contributing Writer The many dialects of the Arab world mean some words are lost in translation. However, one word translates the same regardless of region, ‘thawra’ (ﺛَﻮﺭَﺓ). The Arabic word for ‘Revolution’ echoes throughout the Middle East and North African region. It was heard back in 2011 in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, … Continued

Pathbreakers of Arab America—Ibrahim Abu Lughod

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This is the ninety-first 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, and politics. Our ninety-first pathbreaker, highlighted by contributing writer John Mason, is Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian-born academic-activist who was one of the first to introduce Arab Americans to the world of national liberation struggles and post-colonial politics.

How the Saudi Public Investment Fund Changed Soccer Forever

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By: Jake Harris / Arab America Contributing Writer The Public Investment Fund is Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. A sovereign wealth fund, put simply, is a state owned fund that manages and invests a country’s excess revenues. Saudi Arabia have gained vast wealth from the country’s oil fields. The new vision for the PIF going … Continued

Yemen’s Hidden Hunger

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By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer Yemen is experiencing one of the world’s most catastrophic humanitarian disasters. Beyond the headlines about war and politics lies a quieter tragedy unfolding daily in hospital wards, refugee camps, and remote villages. Severe malnutrition has gripped the country’s most vulnerable individuals. Millions of children and pregnant … Continued

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