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Rizk’s Enduring Message: Lessons from 1943 for the 2024 Election

By: Arwa Almasaari / Arab America Contributing Writer As the 2024 presidential election draws near, it’s more important than ever for the Arab American community to make their voices heard. The message of Salom Rizk, a mid-20th-century Arab American author, remains strikingly relevant today—particularly in discussions around immigration and civic duty. In his 1943 autobiography, … Continued

Pathbreakers of Arab America—James Zogby

This is the forty-seventh of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-seventh pathbreaker is James Zogby, Lebanese Arab American, and co-founder in 1985 with his brother, John, of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based political and policy research firm. Contributing writer, John Mason depicts Zogby as a major player in U.S. domestic politics, representing the Arab American perspective, and a preeminent rooter for Palestinian aspirations.

Arab American Institute Welcomes Inclusion of Arab American and MENA Data in Census Bureau’s Detailed DHC-A Release

The Census Bureau released the Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A) today which, for the first time ever, includes disaggregated data on Arab Americans and other communities from the Middle East or North Africa (MENA). Because of changes made by the Census Bureau for the 2020 Census, the collection and tabulation of data about … Continued

The First Amendment Looks Especially Beautiful in Arabic

By Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute ACLU In 2006, a human rights advocate, who is a friend, was prevented from boarding his flight from New York to California because of Arabic. Yes, Arabic. The language spoken by more than 400 million people worldwide, making it one of the top five languages in the … Continued

Arab American Institute Welcomes Passage of UNSC Vote on Illegality of Israeli Settlements

The Arab American Institute released the following statement: The Arab American Institute welcomes the passage of today’s U.N. Security Council vote on the illegality of Israeli settlements and in support of a political resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  For the past four decades, the United States has pursued a consequential – and ultimately failed – … Continued

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