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Yasmine Al-Bustami, Actress on CBS’s NCIS: Hawai’i and the CW’s The Originals, to Speak at CONNECT Arab America Empowerment Summit

November 10, 2021

By Claire Boyle

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGISTER HERE (Washington, D.C., November 10, 2021) The Arab America Foundation is excited to announce that Yasmine Al-Bustami, CBS’s NCIS Hawai’i and CW’s The Originals actress has been confirmed to be a speaker at the CONNECT Arab America: Empowerment Summit on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at the Doubletree Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan. … Continued

Smithsonian Folkways Shares Powerful ‘Letters From Iraq’ by Oud Master Rahim AlHaj

April 16, 2017

By Arab America

Press release: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In 1991, oud player Rahim AlHaj fled Iraq, leaving behind his native land after being imprisoned twice for his political outspokenness. On ‘Letters From Iraq’ (out 4/7 on Smithsonian Folkways), the two-time Grammy nominee’s eight pieces for oud, string quintet, and percussion convey the story of contemporary Baghdad, from the fall … Continued

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