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Go topBy: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer President Trump recently arrived in Saudi Arabia on his first major international trip of his second term. After Riyadh, he will travel to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. By all indications, he will focus more on business than politics, but there will still be some opportunities for Trump’s hosts … Continued
This is the eighty-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 eighty-second pathbreaker, Lila Abu-Lughod, is an American anthropologist, scholar, ethnographic field researcher, and professor. Contributing writer John Mason describes Dr. Abu-Lughod as specializing in the Arab world, including Egypt, and issues of gender, power, and politics, especially as these involve women’s and human rights. She advocates strongly for Palestinian rights.
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer In mid-May, President Trump will be making his first visit abroad, aside from his appearance at the Pope’s funeral in the Vatican. Of all places, he is choosing to visit Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Qatar. One wonders how any Arab state could welcome a leader who has … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing WriterIran has recently backed away from the brink of a major regional war. The US and Iran are starting formal talks to resolve the tension that has prevailed since President Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement in 2018. On Saturday, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy for the … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer In the fall of 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared: “The Arab-Israeli conflict is 90% psychological.” After thirty years of conflict in the Middle East, including three wars (1948, 1967, and 1973), it stunned the world to hear the head of the most influential Arab state (at … Continued
By Liam Nagle / Arab America Contributing Writer Many people already know about the Arab Revolt – an attempt by the Arabs, led by Sharif Hussein bin Ali, to achieve independence from the Ottoman Empire during World War I. However, lesser-known is the fact that numerous bodies had already formed before the war to achieve … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Western media’s coverage of the Middle East tends to dwell on terror, uprisings, hostage-taking, and wars, but Syria brought us some much-needed good news last week. This week, Israel’s return to war in Gaza and its hegemonic escalation in the West Bank are front-page news. The story … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Last week Israel announced it was backing away from the ceasefire agreement it had reached with Hamas, with US mediation. The agreement had outlined terms for the incremental exchange of captives, leading to a permanent ceasefire within 18 weeks. With the first of three phases over, Israel is … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing WriterUkraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, came to the White House last Friday to beg President Trump to stop making concessions to Russia. Trump, unbidden, has been negotiating with Putin on Ukraine’s behalf. The US president went as far as to stun his Ukrainian guest with a warning: by not … Continued
The documentary No Other Land, a collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, won the Best Documentary Feature award tonight at the 97th Annual Academy Awards. The film chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a region in the occupied West Bank, from 2019 to 2023. During their acceptance speech, co-directors Basel Adra and Yuval … Continued
We at Arab America are deeply disturbed by a denigrating video post on Donald Trump’s Instagram page, which perpetuates offensive stereotypes about Arabs and Palestinians. As an organization dedicated to promoting an accurate and dignified image of Arabs and Arab Americans, we find this video to be blatantly defamatory and deeply insulting. The video portrays … Continued
This is the seventy-sixth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, arts, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our seventy-sixth pathbreaker, Leila Ahmed, grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and ’50s and sought to define herself – and to understand how the world defined her – as a woman, a Muslim, an Egyptian, and an Arab. John Mason, contributing writer, takes us on the journey that brought her to the Harvard Divinity School, where she became the first professor of women’s studies in religion and a primary interpreter of Middle Eastern society, especially of its women.
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