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Go topBY: KIM KOZLOWSKI SOURCE: THE DETROIT NEWS After more than a decade of work assisting impoverished women and children, a local humanitarian organization recently was targeted with hate mail. The letter was sent to executives of Zaman International and filled with anti-Muslim rhetoric, even though the organization is not Islamic, said Najah Bazzy, founder/CEO of … Continued
By Dan Gil / Arab America Contributing Writer One of the most integral and intrinsic aspects of our democracy is the right to vote. In order for the entirety of a diverse society’s needs to be represented, a significant portion of each minority group must actively participate. Although presidential elections tend to take up the … Continued
By Jonah Gellman/Contributing Writer The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), a branch of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), paid for fifty-three Congressional representatives to visit Israel at the beginning of August. AIEF lobbies for AIPAC, raising the moral question of whether or not AIEF is using its status as an educational foundation to … Continued
Source: Al Jazeera By: HyoJin Park8 Nabi Saleh, occupied West Bank – Friday is a day of protest in Nabi Saleh. Manal Tamimi has been going to these protests for as long as she can remember. To her, to be a Palestinian parent is to be an activist. It’s impossible to separate the two roles. Taking … Continued
By Dan Gil/Contributing Writer This weekend gave the United States a long look into the past. Protests at the University of Virginia turned the college campus into a violent and deadly scene of mayhem as a rally of white nationalists convened in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee the … Continued
Source: Common DreamsBy: CJ Werleman Regardless of the issue, you just can’t shut Donald Trump up. Lord knows, his three campaign managers and current and former White House chief of staff have nearly died trying. They have begged, pleaded, and cajoled the slumlord-in-chief to forgo his Twitter account. It was even rumoured that the Republican campaign convinced … Continued
Source: PBS In “Dark at the Crossing,” the upheavals and horrors of the Syrian civil war are given fictional life, centered in the border zone between Syria and Turkey. Author Elliot Ackerman is a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and now lives in Istanbul. Ackerman joins Jeffrey Brown for a conversation. JUDY … Continued
Photo: New York Times By Kai Wiggins/Arab American Institute Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure at the White House was akin to that of a Roman candle exploding in the night. He was colorful. He was loud. He was made to entertain. But he wasn’t here to stay. Like all good fireworks, the now-former communications director fizzled into … Continued
Al Jazeera has threatened to take legal action over Israel’s decision to close its bureau in Jerusalem, in a statement issued on Monday. The pan-Arab news network based out of Qatar declared the move was “undemocratic” in its statement. “Al Jazeera stresses that it will closely watch the developments that may result from the Israeli … Continued
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) condemns the Saturday bombing of a Bloomington, Minnesota mosque as an act of terrorism and hate against a religious group. This is a clear affront to the rights of the Muslim community to worship in peace. We are grateful that there were no casualties, but that does not reduce … Continued
By Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer A number of civil rights groups are suing the State Department along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over their refusal to process applications for a visa lottery system from the six countries President Trump has issued a travel ban against. The American Civil Liberties Union, Jenner & Block LLP, … Continued
Source: NewsDeeply By: Danish Mehboob Michigan, with its long Arab-American history, offers refugees fleeing war in Iraq a family away from home. Yet the financial crisis made it even harder to find work there, while the arrival of secondary migrants drawn to Michigan’s sense of community strains resources. WHEN IRAQI REFUGEE Mohamad Soleiman visited Dearborn, Michigan, it … Continued
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