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Wednesday October 17, 2012
This Sunday evening, Arab American comedian Dean Obeidallah will bring his "Dean Obeidallah for Vice President" comedy tour to Washington, DC for two shows. Dean, who has appeared on numerous US and international TV shows and is a regular contributor to CNN, will be joined by two hilarious local comedians, “Go Remy” and Said Durrah. Read More »
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Tuesday October 16, 2012
Tonight President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will face off for a town hall debate at Hofstra University. The debate will be moderated by CNN’s Candy Crowley and will air at 9pm Eastern Time. While the Vice Presidential debate did not change the overall status of the polls, Biden’s performance did manage to halt the Obama campaign’s downward slide. Heading into the debate tonight, Romney has a slight edge in the national polls, but Obama maintains his swing state advantage with a 50 point Electoral College spread. Here are some stories to watch for in tonight’s debate. Read More »
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Tuesday October 16, 2012
Jusoor, a global network designed to support the economic development of Syria , will be hosing members of the Syrian community in the D.C. area at the home of Munif and Suha Atassi for a reception on October 20th. The evening will feature an introduction to Jusoor, including their vision and the programming underway, as well as provide an opportunity to meet members of the local Syrian community. Read More »
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Tuesday October 16, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
An Israeli travel ban on Palestinians from Gaza led the American Consulate in Jerusalem to cancel a two-year-old scholarship program that gave 30 bright and financially disadvantaged students from Gaza and the West Bank the opportunity to study at local Palestinian universities. Read More »
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Monday October 15, 2012
On Friday, October 12, AAI and the Arab American Cultural & Community Center (ACC) hosted a town hall discussion entitled “Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A U.S. Policy Imperative.” The event focused on the latest political developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the role that the Arab American community must play in helping to guide U.S. policy. Read More »
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Monday October 15, 2012
On Friday, October 12, 2012, the Romney campaign announced “Arab Americans for Romney,” a national coalition of Arab American supporters of Gov. Mitt Romney’s bid for the presidency of the United States. Read More »
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Monday October 15, 2012
The Obama administration took steps toward correcting this gaping hole in the WPEA yesterday with a policy directive extending protections to those who expose waste, fraud, or illegality in agencies that work on national security matters. Read More »
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Friday October 12, 2012
So both Romney and Obama have the same policy position: condemn Assad in the harshest terms, work with allies to support the right elements of the Syrian opposition, but no direct intervention unless there is a drastic development involving the use of chemical weapons or threatening vital American interests. Will that stop the campaigns from using the tragedy in Syria as a partisan foreign policy issue in the election? You bet it won’t. Read More »
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Friday October 12, 2012
By Emily Jabareen
In what could be considered an archival gem for policy buffs and fans of President Kennedy alike, a letter was unearthed documenting John F. Kennedy’s early thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
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Friday October 12, 2012
AAI and the Arab American Cultural & Community Center (ACC) will be hosting a town hall entitled “Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A U.S. Policy Imperative” tonight at 7:00pm. The event will focus on the latest political developments regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and explore what role the United States can and should play to overcome the numerous obstacles that are keeping a viable peace agreement from being achieved. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
In almost all of these issues, including Israel/Palestine, Iraq & Afghanistan, and the approach to Libya and Syria, Romney’s stated goals are near-indistinguishable from Obama’s, many of which are continuations of Bush-era foreign policy priorities, with one central difference. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Today at 7:20 ET, AAI president Jim Zogby will join Huffington Post Live host Alyona Minkovski and a group of Arab Americans working throughout the country to mobilize Arab American voters, for a conversation on how the Arab American vote will affect the presidential election. Citing Jim’s recent column on the Arab American Vote and AAI’s September polling data on how Arab Americans are likely to vote this November, HuffPost Live’s online conversation will address how Arab Americans will sway the 2012 election. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Tonight Vice-Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will meet for a debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. The debate will air at 9:00pm eastern time and will be moderated by ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Martha Raddatz. The debate comes as President Obama has seen a 5 point slide in his poll numbers over 7 days following a loss to Mitt Romney in the first debate, leaving Romney with a 1.5 point advantage in the latest RCP poll average. Here are some stories to watch for in tonight’s debate: Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Today marks the 27th anniversary of the death of Alex Odeh, who was killed by a pipe bomb as he entered his office in Santa Ana, California. Odeh was the West Coast Regional Director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) as well as a lecturer and poet who immigrated to the U.S. from Palestine in 1972. He was supposed to speak at the Friday prayer service at a synagogue in Fountain Valley, California the day of his death. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
In a lengthy and scathing report, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded that the fusion centers “forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism.” Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Any of these individuals at the helm of Romney’s foreign policy agenda could herald a deeply dangerous return to failed policies that have already engendered distrust, disenchantment, and radicalization across the Arab world. Read More »
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Thursday October 11, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Unveiled on January 7th of this year, the Danny Thomas commemorative postage stamp posthumously honors the well-known Arab American entertainer whose radio, TV, and film career spanned five decades. The stamp, which has been sold at more than 30,000 US Postal Service locations nationwide since February 16th, was first introduced at an L.A. Gala on the 50th anniversary of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and what would have been the late founder’s 100th birthday. Read More »
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Wednesday October 10, 2012
A Texas- based group, True the Vote, plans to mobilize millions of poll watchers around the country. But some fear that its real intention is to intimidate minority voters. Their fears were confirmed last month when True the Vote’s national election coordinator told poll watchers that their aim should be to make for voters feel “like [you’re] driving and seeing the police following you.” Read More »
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Monday October 08, 2012
As we head into the 2012 elections, it is important for the community to know that our voice counts and that we can make a difference this election. In a number of ways, we already have. The Arab American community has worked tirelessly in many states throughout the nation to register new voters and become more integrated into the political process. Today, not only are Arab Americans voting in record numbers, they are helping to influence the outcome of races like never before. Read More »
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Friday October 05, 2012
A group of members of Congress from both chambers have drafted a letter to Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, calling for the pardon and release of doctors imprisoned during the uprising that rocked the country last year. Read More »
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