Tuesday April 02, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Kemal Amen Kasem, better known as Casey Kasem, is the recipient of the 2013 Award for Individual Achievement at this year’s Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards Gala on April 16. Read More »
Friday March 29, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
On Tuesday March 26th, Just World Press published a cookbook named “The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey.” This cookbook demonstrates how a complex and rich culture is connected to all aspects of food production--the Israeli siege, shortages of product movement across borders, scarcity in farming and fishing opportunities, and insufficient electricity and water. Read More »
Wednesday March 27, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a 40-year old organization dedicated to promoting social justice and advocating for disadvantaged and children and families. Read More »
Friday March 22, 2013
By Jennine Vari
Through Mikhail's poetry, we can begin to understand how a war that is so alien to many Americans, affects the lives of those who are forced to relive it every day. Read More »
Monday March 18, 2013
The Arab American Institute is helping to collect Arab American poems for an upcoming poetry anthology on the universal struggle for equality, human rights, and survival. Read More »
Thursday March 07, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
There are numerous vulnerable cultural sites that carry a deep national meaning and history. Many of these are now facing imminent destruction. The preservation of the ancient Mamilla cemetery is one such place. Read More »
Friday March 01, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Doris Bittar, a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, is a Lebanese artist who was born in Baghdad, Iraq and immigrated at a young age to the United States from Beirut, Lebanon. Her journey of relocating, like most people and immigrants, she has experienced the weight of finding meaning for herself in the multiple cultures which have defined her over the years. Read More »
Thursday February 28, 2013
By Jennine Vari
Leeor Kaufman is a Brooklyn-based photographer from Israel, who began documenting the daily lives of Palestinian villagers and took a particular interest in a small village in the West Bank called Wadi Fuqin. Read More »
Friday February 22, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Emad Burnat, his wife Soraya, and their son Gibreel were on their way to Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony when the family was stopped and threatened to be sent back home from the Los Angeles International Airport. Read More »
Friday February 08, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
The exhibition by Iraqi-born and London-based artist Jananne Al-Ani (1966) is on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington DC until February 10, 2013. Read More »
Wednesday February 06, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
On February 6, 2013, representatives from the The Parents Circle-Families Forum, the Alliance for the Middle East Peace, and The Telos Group took part in an important hill briefing. Read More »
Friday February 01, 2013
Yvonne Wakim and Maha Addasi dispel common stereotypes of Arab Americans in their new work “A Kid's Guide to Arab American History.” Read More »
Thursday January 31, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
Artist Naomi Shihab Nye makes sense of the world within and the communities in which she is immersed through the art of poetry. Read More »
Tuesday January 29, 2013
By Jade Zoghbi
The Lebanese American poet Kahlil Gibran revolutionized Arab American culture and made a significant contribution to the American ethos with his distinguished artistry, eloquently bridging the many identities of East and West. Gibran was one of many Arab American artists who introduced and built on the Arab immigrant literary tradition. Read More »
Monday December 10, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Born in Jordan to an American mother and a Jordanian father, Omar Rayyan moved to the US to attend the Rhode Island School of Design for his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. Rayyan’s primary market is children’s and young adult magazines and books for both cover and interior illustrations, and he has illustrated for many publishers, including Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Hyperion/Disney Read More »
Tuesday November 27, 2012
By Jennine Vari
On Saturday December 1st, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture will present Moroccan singer Karima Skalli at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery Read More »
Wednesday November 14, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Saturday, December 1st at the historic Lincoln Theatre on U St. NW in Washington DC, the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee (ADC) and the ADC Women’s Initiative present the second annual Turaath. Read More »
Monday November 05, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia comes to the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Read More »
Wednesday October 24, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
The seventeenth annual Arabian Sights Film Festival begins this Thursday, October 25th and runs through November 4th, screening ten films from a diverse set of countries including Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. Read More »
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 »
Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
about 17 minutes ago.
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
about 20 minutes ago.
The Muslim Brotherhood has a negative favorable/unfavorable ratio of 30%–47%
http://t.co/rMKu4JJrgW
about 22 minutes ago.
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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