By: Claire Boyle / Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: The city of Chicago is known for many things; its deep-dish pizza, interesting politics, worldwide cultures, Lake Michigan, and the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. But were you aware that Chicago is also a center of immigration for refugees of the Arab World to come to and … Continued
By: Meriam Helal/Arab America Contributing Writer The Trump Administration has made another attempt to ban predominantly Muslim Countries in the executive order Travel Ban 3.0. Yet, it has much of the same restrictions as the previous travel bans. This travel ban comprises of the same countries as the last one, with the addition of North … Continued
By: Peter Beinart Source: Forward “Mr. President, with you, we have hope.” So said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his joint press conference at the White House on Wednesday. As with so much in the Donald Trump era, it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Hope? Trump’s Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, … Continued
By CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press The photo from inside Donald Trump’s makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognized for some time — that Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power. Though sandwiched between other administration officials, the deputy national security adviser for strategy stands out as … Continued
By ADAM WEINSTEIN Task and Purpose This is Jared. Jared’s never been to war before. But his father-in-law, a very busy man, sent Jared to the war to see how it’s going! This is Joe. Joe is a Marine. Joe is the Marine in charge of all of America’s wars. One day in March, Joe … Continued
By Jack Khoury Haaretz A senior Palestinian delegation is to leave in the next few days for Washington as part of the preparations for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Palestinian official told Haaretz. A date for the meeting has yet to be confirmed, but Trump invited … Continued
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous The Nation Eleven days before Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was due to travel to Washington for his first White House visit, Aya Hegazy was escorted from her cell in the Qanater women’s prison, where she has been locked up for nearly three years, to the Abdeen courthouse in downtown Cairo … Continued
By Massoud Hayoun Al Jazeera Before Linda Sarsour was an organiser of the Women’s March, which the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration mounted the largest protest in US history, she was an Arab and Muslim American community organiser in New York City, building bonds with New Yorkers of many other ethnicities and faiths. Sarsour is … Continued
BY JORDAN FABIAN THE HILL Dina Powell is the Trump administration’s Ms. Fix-It. The deputy national security adviser for strategy, one of the few White House aides with extensive experience in a past Republican administration, has taken on a large list of responsibilities touching on foreign and domestic policy. Besides serving as a deputy to … Continued
By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept ON WEDNESDAY, a U.N. agency published a report noting that “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” Yesterday, the author of that report, who has served as executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) since 2010, … Continued
BY: Diego Reyes/Contributing Writer President Trump’s first attempt on his immigration ban took a huge turn when the federal appeals courts deemed it unconstitutional. The executive orders spurred protests across the country at airports and state capitals from supporters of immigration and refugees. Trump’s orders restricted all immigration from 7 predominantly Muslim countries – Iran, … Continued
By Lee Fang The Intercept_ JUST BEFORE U.S. airline industry CEOs met at the White House with Donald Trump on Thursday, the big three carriers — Delta, United and American — released a video featuring some of Trump’s populist rhetoric about “trade cheats” and directing viewers to a website for a lobbying campaign to “protect … Continued
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