Friday April 27, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
When Susan Abulhawa’s novel Mornings in Jenin (originally titled The Scar of David) was published in the US in 2010, it created significant attention. Though the novel received generally positive reviews, some objected to its frank descriptions of one Palestinian family’s years of suffering after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Read More »
Wednesday April 25, 2012
This Saturday, Paterson, New Jersey will be introduced to a new side of its Arab American community. April is Arab Heritage Month in New Jersey, and on April 28th, the first Annual South Paterson Arab Cultural Street Festival will take over Michigan Avenue with music, food, and dancing from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Read More »
Friday April 20, 2012
On April 18, more than 500 Arab Americans from across the country gathered at the Renaissance Hotel for the 2012 Kahlil Gibran “Spirit of Humanity” Awards Gala, hosted by the Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF). At a time of unprecedented challenges, the Gibran Awards brought the Arab American community together to honor leaders in fostering greater understanding and promoting the common good. Read More »
Friday April 20, 2012
By Dalal Hillou
There’s a good chance that you may have, in your lifetime, seen a Rami Kashou gown. You may have seen it within the pages of Vogue, Elle or In Style. You may have seen photos of stylish celebrities wearing timeless pieces by him, or you may have tuned in to watch Rami on the hit show “Project Runway” in past seasons. In all these settings, he has stood out as a Palestinian designer whose gorgeous designs are one of a kind. Read More »
Wednesday April 18, 2012
AAIF's Gibran Gala Honors Southern Poverty Law Center, "The Muslims Are Coming!" Comedy Tour, and pays tribute special tribute to the life and work of Anthony Shadid Read More »
Wednesday April 18, 2012
On Sunday, April 22nd, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University, and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) are holding a commemorative evening to honor the late Dr. Hala Salaam Maksoud. Read More »
Thursday April 12, 2012
By Dalal Hillou
More than 8,000 Arab Americans live in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1999, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan first declared April to be "Arab-American Heritage Month." Read More »
Wednesday April 11, 2012
The Arab American Institute Foundation (AAIF) will present the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with the Award for Institutional Excellence at the 2012 Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards Gala in Washington, DC. AAIF is bestowing the award on SPLC for its tireless efforts and accomplishments in building a society where mutual respect and understanding exists across racial, ethnic, political, and religious lines. Read More »
Wednesday April 11, 2012
By Dalal Hillou
A year ago at the Atlanta Arab Festival, I came across an art display that took my breath away. It was there that I met Palestinian artist Nancy Alhabashi, whose art and poetry is a seamless blend of East meets West. Read More »
Monday April 09, 2012
By Haneen Sakakini
Are you a member of a Palestinian family living in the Diaspora (US, UK, Chile, Canada, Australia, etc.)? Do you have a teenager who will be entering 9th, 10th, or 11th grade this fall? If so, please consider sending her or him to the Go Palestine Summer Camp this July 2012! Read More »
Monday April 09, 2012
For as long as they have been around, the Muslims are Coming! Comedy Tour has been trying to supplant our traditional Gibran Awards ceremony with a Sharia-compliant program. This year they have finally infiltrated the Gala. But seriously, the comedy tour will receive a Special Recognition Award at this year’s Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards Gala for their use of comedy to break down cultural barriers and for their efforts to dispel misconceptions about Muslims and Arabs throughout the country. Read More »
Monday April 09, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
In an election season full of suspicion of Arab Americans and American Muslims, a new documentary provides an important antidote by showcasing the lives of 39 Arab Americans from around the country. Read More »
Friday April 06, 2012
On Monday evening, PitaPolicy and the DC Chapter of the Network of Arab American Professionals (NAAP-DC) will host the second installment of their Media on MENA series. Read More »
Thursday April 05, 2012
This year, the Arab American Institute Foundation’s (AAIF) Kahlil Gibran “Spirit of Humanity” Awards Gala features a number of exceptional awardees. Receiving the Najeeb Halaby Award for Public Service is Ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf, president and CEO of AMIDEAST. Since 1972 Ambassador Kattouf, a former U.S. Ambassador to the UAE and Syria, has led a distinguished Foreign Service career, serving throughout the Middle East, including posts in Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Read More »
Wednesday April 04, 2012
By Dalal Hillou
Laura Hammad, a Palestinian-American lawyer who is working with the Florida Young Democrats, is representing the Arab American community and fighting back against stereotypes and bigotry. Read More »
Thursday March 29, 2012
As part of its Emerging Leaders Program, the Arab American Institute (AAI) hosted an event last night with Al Jazeera's Rami Khater, Senior New Media Producer for The Stream, as well as veteran journalist Jeffery Ghannam. Read More »
Monday March 05, 2012
You know there is something wrong when a lawmaker, who is commonly praised for his unwavering commitment to uphold Constitutional values, is also labeled the most “contrarian” member of his political party. Representative Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, is a Member of Congress that has a tendency to vote out of sync with his party more than most other Republican Members. Amash is not a secret Democrat or a moderate – far from it. Read More »
Tuesday February 28, 2012
Anthony Shadid has been widely hailed as the best foreign correspondent of his generation. For Arab Americans, he was much more than that. How many times did we send one of Anthony's dispatches from Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya or Syria to our friends so that they might understand Arabs as mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brother and sisters -- as complex, dynamic people? The humanity of Anthony's writing gave all of us a voice. Read More »
Friday February 17, 2012
Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Anthony understood that the story of the region didn't begin the day he got the assignment. His reporting reflected a historian's appreciation for context. More than that, Anthony's work was also distinguished by a poet's sense of texture. He wrote not with an ego, but with an eye for detail and an ear for the voices he heard. Where others "embedded" with troops, he walked the streets of war torn Arab countries "embedded" with people, bringing to life, for the rest of us, what ordinary Iraqis, Lebanese,Syrians, etc were seeing and saying and feeling. Read More »
Tuesday February 14, 2012
It’s official. Two Arab Americans will face off for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s old congressional seat. Arizona State Senator Paula Aboud confirmed yesterday that she will run for office in Arizona’s newly redrawn District 2. Two weeks earlier, State Representative Matt Heinz announced that he would pursue the same office. The soon-to-be-formed District 2 will contain much of Giffords’s former district 8, which, due to her recent retirement, is now vacant. Neither Aboud nor Heinz (both Democrats) will run in the special election which is set for June 12. Both Candidates will leave former Giffords aide Ron Barber unchallenged for the Democratic ticket in the special election. It is unclear whether Barber will run for a full term, come November. Currently, Aboud and Heinz are the only two officially declared candidates running for Giffords’s seat in November. Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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