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Go topBy: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Trump’s hubristic plan to forcibly remove the people of Gaza to neighboring countries has drawn widespread rejection from Palestinians, the Arab world, and the international community. Even within Israel, there is some opposition to forced Palestinian displacement. Trump’s threat to push Palestinians out of Palestine appears designed to pressure Arab … Continued
This is the seventy-fourth 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. Contributing writer John Mason, highlights our seventy-fourth pathbreaker, Ilhan Omar, is a Somali-born Muslim woman serving as the U.S. Democratic representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district since 2019. Omar is the first Somali American and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women, alongside Rashida Tlaib, to serve in Congress. A staunch human rights advocate, Ilhan has vigorously opposed strong Islamophobic currents directed against her and Muslims in general.
By Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer The irony is stark: while Trump wages a war against migrants to the United States, he simultaneously proposes the forced migration of two million Gazans to Arab countries already overburdened with millions of refugees from Palestine, Syria, and Sudan. King Abdullah II of Jordan met with Trump … Continued
By: Barbara Nimri Aziz / Arab America Contributing Writer In this satirical dialogue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a behind-the-scenes imagined exchange ahead of a press conference on Gaza. Through exaggerated rhetoric and ironic asides, Arab America contributing writer, Barbara Nimri Aziz, critiques the handling of the war … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Trump’s recent proposal for permanently relocating Gaza’s population to Jordan and Egypt has met with widespread rejection from Palestinians, the Arab world, and many international observers. The plan, which envisions transforming war-ravaged Gaza into a Middle Eastern tourist destination, disregards both Palestinian rights and regional stability. When … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Pro-Trump Arab groups who helped him win the elections must be in a state of shock this week. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House. The meeting focused on the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire, brokered under pressure from Trump, … Continued
By: Jack Moran / Arab America Contributing Writer On March 5th, 1991 nearly two million Iraqis, 1.5 million of them Kurds, escaped from strife-torn cities in Iraq to the mountains along the northern borders, into the southern marshes, and to Turkey and Iran. Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime turned cities into piles of rubble and displaced … Continued
Yara Marei / Arab America Contributing Writer Just two months before the fall of the Syrian regime, Israel’s long-time enemy, Benjamin Netanyahu faced tough questions during a press conference. A journalist asked him sharply, “Is there any hope the enemy simply forgot to return Eli Cohen’s body?” Visibly frustrated Netanyahu admitted, “We’ve been trying for … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer In 2015, several world leaders, including then-President Obama, reached an agreement with Iran, known mainly as the “Iran nuclear deal,” to limit Iran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. Three years later, Trump withdrew from the deal and reinstated sanctions against Iran. At the Davos summit, CNN’s … Continued
This is the seventy-second 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-second pathbreaker, May Rihani, was born in Beirut to parents from Freike, Matn District, Lebanon. As contributing writer John Mason reports, she is an expert on girls’ and women’s education, working in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to implement educational reform, particularly to improve girls’ education and family health. In 2016, May was awarded the prestigious position of director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland and recently ran as a candidate for the 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election.
By Liam Nagle / Arab America Contributing Writer With the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970, Egypt found itself in a precarious position. Although still regarded as the preeminent power in the Middle East, the country was growing increasingly weak. The decline of Arab Nationalism, compounded by the recent defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli … Continued
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer After a two-year delay, the election of a president for the Lebanese Republic last week represents a modest but genuine step forward. The new president, Joseph Aoun (no relation to the previous president), has received congratulations from around the globe. While not necessarily a transformational figure, Aoun … Continued
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