By Yaara Aleissa / Arab America Contributing Writer In the Netherlands airport, the TVs projected CNN. Everyone centered around the airport screens watching a clip of U.S. troops arriving on Iraqi soil. The video transitioned into a picture of Saddam Hussien. As the Dutch reporters translated the news the only comprehensible words to the Iraqi … Continued
By: Adam Abdel-Qader / Arab America Contributing Writer At the start of the new year, Iraq held its second international soccer tournament in Basra after three decades of global isolation. This tournament marked Iraq’s second title win in the Arabian Gulf Cup tournament since 1979. Iraq’s win and hosting of the event is a message … Continued
By: Caroline Umphlet / Arab America Contributing Writer Background From 800 AD to 1100 AD, Baghdad was the richest, most prestigious and significant cosmopolitan city in the world. The Islamic Golden Age contributed vital discoveries and ideas to science and math that still affect our world today. The average American is not very familiar with … Continued
This dark but clever YA novel confronts topics that are not tidy – because, as Safi reminds us, these are not tidy times. SOURCE: THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BY: KATIE WARD BEIM-ESCHE In Aminah Mae Safi’s Not the Girls You’re Looking For, protagonist Lulu Saad makes a ferocious entrance, a calamitous mess, and a … Continued
BY: DR JOHN ANDREW MORROW SOURCE: THE ISLAMIC MONTHLY Meet Haneen Alsafi, recipient of a humanitarian award from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and quite an inspiration. Raised in al-Hillah, in Babil, Iraq, she is the daughter of an Arab Shia father who grew up in Baghdad and a Turkmen Sunni mother who grew up … Continued
A protester fights back tears during a downtown rally November 8, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. (AFP) By: Phoebe Leila Barghouty Source: Al Arabiya Moayad Barash was very young when he travelled from Baghdad to the United States. But he has spent years building a life in America. All four of his children were born … Continued
By Laith Saud Chicago Reader Laith Saud, 38, was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1978, and immigrated to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1979. Today he’s a visiting assistant professor of religion with a focus on Islamic studies at DePaul University, and the coauthor of An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century. Here he … Continued
by ERASMUS and I.T. The Economist IN THEORY, this year should have been a time when the fortunes of Iraq’s Christian community, one of world’s most beleaguered religious minorities, at last changed for the better. Instead, say members of the community and people supporting them, it is proving to be a time of agonising dilemmas. … Continued
BY: Weam Namou/Ambassador Blogger It was a sunny April afternoon four years ago when I was working on my book that I received a call from Eman Jajonie-Daman, an attorney friend and magistrate at the 46th District Court. She said there were French reporters and filmmakers in town doing a web documentary entitled, My Beloved … Continued
ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos ABC News’ Josh Haskell talks to Iraqi refugee Nasser Al Sadoun at the confirmation hearing for Sen. Sessions.
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