Monday February 27, 2012
DEARBORN, Michigan – February 27, 2012 – Michigan’s Arab American Republican leadership has endorsed Congressman Ron Paul for President today ahead of the State’s Republican Primary election. Congressman Paul will join Arab American community representatives from Southeast Michigan, including Detroit, Dearborn, Southfield, Warren and Ann Arbor to accept the endorsement. Read More »
Wednesday February 22, 2012
The four remaining Republican presidential candidates will gather tonight in Mesa, Arizona for a high-stakes debate. While candidates and voters alike have been suffering from debate-fatigue, tonight’s debate could well be the final debate of the GOP presidential race. Read More »
Monday February 06, 2012
On Saturday, February 4, 2012, the Arab American Institute hosted a town hall on racial profiling and immigration enforcement, with a special focus on the Arab and Muslim American communities in Massachusetts. The town hall was held at Boston University, allowing community members, students, and other faculty members to join in the discussion. Read More »
Wednesday February 01, 2012
Two Arab American candidates could potentially run against each other for Gabrielle Giffords’s old congressional seat. Arizona State Representative Matt Heinz yesterday announced his candidacy for Arizona’s 8th congressional district, a seat which could potentially have six different candidates (three Republicans and three Democrats) running to occupy it. Read More »
Wednesday February 01, 2012
While the candidates performed in the expected order in Florida’s Republican Primary results, the wide gaps between them were a bit surprising. Romney won by a very comfortable margin, earning over 46% of the vote. Gingrich came in at second place with 31.9% of the vote. Santorum had a mere 13.4%, while Paul came in with a shabby 7%. Read More »
Monday January 30, 2012
by Abraham Hassan
Palestinian American Republican Abraham Hassan follows up on his question from the CNN Florida debate on January 26th. Mr. Hassan, a Republican from Jacksonville, FL asked the candidates how they would achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Referring to a controversial statement made by Newt Gingrich weeks earlier where he said Palestinians were an "invented people," Mr. Hassan asserted before the debate audience: "As a Palestinian American Republican, I'm here to tell you we do exist." Read More »
Tuesday January 24, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
This evening at 9 pm, President Obama will deliver his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and millions of Americans watching on television. Read More »
Monday January 23, 2012
The RNC thinks they just did Israel a favor by whitewashing the illegality of its occupation of the Palestinian territories, but failed to notice that they just demanded that all these Palestinians living under occupation be granted equal rights as Israelis. In effect, the RNC just endorsed the maximalist position of the most ardent supporters of Palestinian rights: the one-state/one-man/one-vote solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
Friday January 20, 2012
We are proud to announce our new interactive database of candidate statements on issues of importance to the Arab American community. Read More »
Thursday January 19, 2012
The GOP has chosen Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a public official we’ve praised for his principled stances and success as a public administrator, to deliver the party’s response to the President’s State of The Union address next Tuesday. There are few better suited for the task than Governor Daniels, a governor with an impressive fiscal record the party will use to validate its message on the economy. Read More »
Friday January 13, 2012
Three key endorsements by Arab American elected officials have bolstered the campaigns of three GOP candidates seeking the Republican nomination for President. Former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu, Freshman GOP Congressman Justin Amash (MI -3) and Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) have all thrown their weight behind the candidates they believe should win the republican nomination and the presidency. Read More »
Monday January 09, 2012
By Jamila Benkato
Saturday night’s debate in Manchester, New Hampshire covered everything from Romney’s record as a job creator, to Ron Paul’s controversial old newsletters, to a wide array of foreign policy issues. We have collected the most relevant statements of the evening below. Read More »
Friday January 06, 2012
The Iowa caucuses have shaken up the Republican primary race as the candidates head to New Hampshire. This weekend, the candidates will meet for two debates, the first on Saturday in Manchester and the second in Concord. Here are some things to watch for in both New Hampshire debates Read More »
Friday January 06, 2012
With the way some politicians talk about race, it is sometimes hard to believe that we’re in the 21st century. Consider what Rick Santorum, the 2nd place GOP candidate in Iowa (some argue he came in 1st), said while talking about welfare. Read More »
Tuesday January 03, 2012
No matter who wins in Iowa today, the caucuses will have a profound impact on the presidential race going forward. This impact, however, will not occur in ways that conform with our conventional political wisdom and established scripts for primary battles. A week before the primaries officially start, all signs indicate that the Iowa caucuses will sow the seeds for a long, drawn out race for the Republican nomination. Read More »
Thursday December 29, 2011
Americans for Peace Now has a great list of the “Top 10 Wackiest Congressional Actions on the Middle East of 2011,” in a year where they had a pretty wide pool to choose from. We’ve covered a lot of these stories before, but this list does a great job of highlighting just how out of sync Congress can sometimes be when it comes to Middle East issues. Read More »
Friday December 23, 2011
This morning, we heard the tragic news of twin suicide bombings in Damascus that killed at least 40 people and injured over a hundred, amid ever more valid fears that Syria is probably sliding towards civil war. Meanwhile in Egypt, footage emergedof the brutal beating and shooting of protesters, and one woman suffered a very serious head injury from repeated clubbing by the army’s anti-riot force. In Iraq, a dozen coordinated bombings killed at least 60 people and injured over 200. Could anyone have imagined this climate was less than a year away from the euphoria following Mubarak’s ouster? Read More »
Tuesday December 20, 2011
On the one-year anniversary of the Arab Spring, AAI hosted a roundtable discussion with Syrian democracy activist Rami Nakhle, Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” co-host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a select group of journalism and communications students from all across Egypt, and Arab American students and activists. The purpose of the discussion was to connect agents of change from the Arab World with Arab American activists to exchange experiences and learn how best we can bring change about here at home. Read More »
Monday December 19, 2011
By Jamila Benkato
Just weeks away from the Iowa Presidential Caucus, Republican Presidential candidates met in Sioux City, Iowa to discuss everything from to economy to Ronald Reagan. Below are key quotes from the evening concerning Iran, Israel, Iraq, immigration and foreign policy in general.
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Friday December 16, 2011
Was Marianne Gingrich soliciting a $10 million bribe to get the House Speaker to lift Iraqi sanctions or was she just soliciting a donation on behalf of her former boss? And what kind of guy actively seeks a donation from a known arms dealer nicknamed “The Merchant of Death?” We’ll tell you… and you may not be so surprised. 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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