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Archive - Must Read News
2006
December
Dec 28: The Hamas factor
(Robert Malley and Henry Siegman / International Herald Tribune)
Dec 28: Uncle Sam wants US Muslims to serve
(Richard Whittle / The Christian Science Monitor)
Dec 28: The new refugees
(Amira Hass / Haaretz)
Dec 27: First Settlement in 10 Years Fuels Mideast Tension
(Steven Erlanger / New York Times)
Dec 21: Reiterating the keys to peace
(Jimmy Carter / Boston Globe)
Dec 21: Congressman Criticizes Election of Muslim
(Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times)
Dec 20: The new walls of Jerusalem: The long walk to class
(Christian Science Monitor)
Dec 20: Arab-American writer is ambassador for Middle East
(Reuters)
Dec 20: White House, Joint Chiefs At Odds on Adding Troops
(Washington Post)
Dec 20: Israeli housing to expand in Golan
(Al Jazeera)
Dec 13: Fear 'as bad as after 9/11'
(Rick Hampson / USA Today)
Dec 07: Michael Guido left a thriving, inclusive city
(Detroit News)
Dec 06: Is the FBI Doing Its Best to Combat Terrorism?
(Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin & the NBC News Investigative Unit / NBC News)
Dec 05: Carter Breaks It Down and Says It Like It Is
(M. Kay Siblani / The Arab American News)
November
Nov 29: For Author of Settlement Report, Hope is to Spark Moral Reckoning
(Uriel Heilman / JTA News)
Nov 29: Jordan's King Warns of Civil Wars
(BBC News)
Nov 22: Israeli Map Says West Bank Posts Sit on Arab Land
(Steven Erlanger / New York Times)
Nov 21: A Way Forward in Iraq
(Senator Barack Obama / Chicago Council on Global Affairs)
Nov 21: FBI Reaches Out to Community Leaders
(Amy Taxin / Orange County Register)
Nov 20: Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush
(Peter Baker / Washington Post)
Nov 15: Lebanon's New Crisis
(Washington Post)
Nov 09: Gaza Attack Threatens Palestinian Unity Talks
(Josh Mitnick / Christian Science Monitor)
Nov 06: Candidate Leaves GOP as Election Nears
(Dave McKibben / Los Angeles Times)
Nov 06: Arab-American Air Force Officer "Cherishes" Right to Vote
(Jim Fisher-Thompson / Bureau of International Information Programs)
October
Oct 26: American Arabs and Muslims Begin to Flex Political Muscle
(Claude R. Marx / The Eagle-Tribune)
Oct 25: REBUILDING LEBANON: Detroiters pick up after Mideast war
(Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press)
Oct 17: Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?
(Jeff Stein / New York Times)
Oct 13: Candidate Is Defended After 'Extremist' Labeling
(Dave McKibben / Los Angeles Times)
Oct 12: Rice Says U.S. Wants End to Palestinian "Humiliation"
(Reuters)
Oct 12: US Muslims Stand Up to be Counted
(Cindy Tham / US State Department's Foreign Press Centre)
Oct 09: We Can’t Go Home Again
(Sam Bahour / New York Times)
Oct 09: Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon
(Michael Slackman / New York Times)
Oct 09: Anaheim City Council Race Heats Up Over Mideast Politics
(Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press)
Oct 06: U.S. Court Blocks Part of Voting Law
(Mike Tobin / Plain Dealer Reporter)
Oct 04: Metro Arabs See Cost of War
(Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press)
Oct 03: Workplace Bias Against Muslims, Arabs on Rise, Advocates Say
(Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times)
Oct 02: Alarm Bells In The East, How Middle Eastern Christianity Might Be Saved
(Drew Christiansen, S. J. / America Magazine)
September
Sep 30: Things Go Better With Rights
(Zahi Khouri / Wall Street Journal)
Sep 30: Alarm Bells in the East, How Middle Eastern Christianity Might be Saved
(Drew Christiansen, S. J / America Magazine)
Sep 28: American Entrepreneur Sees Hidden Strength in Islam
(Siraj Wahab / Arab News)
Sep 28: Legal Residents' Rights Curbed in Detainee Bill
(Farah Stockman / The Globe)
Sep 26: Ads are yanked as offensive to Arabs, Muslims
(Wendy Koch / USA Today)
Sep 21: Reaching Out Across Cultures
(Sari Horwitz / The Washington Post)
Sep 18: Israeli Visa Policy Traps Thousands of Palestinians in a Legal Quandary
(Greg Myre / The New York Times)
Sep 13: A minefield of carefully chosen words
(Elizabeth Strother / The Roanoke Times)
Sep 13: west paterson Party time for Sami
(Paul Brubaker / Herald News)
Sep 13: Voices from Ground Zero
(Laura Clark / Wanted in Rome)
Sep 12: DeVos cancels a meeting with Arab Americans
(Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press)
Sep 12: First Arab Woman President of UN General Assembly - Shaikha Haya of Bahrain
(Bahrain Tribune)
Sep 11: Still Difficult For Arab Americans
( John Sharify / KOMO 4 News)
Sep 10: America's Muslims after 9/11
(Zlatica Hoke / VOA News)
August
Aug 31: Local Arab-Americans face uphill battle against public perception
(Erica Hall / The Journal News)
Aug 30: Can you really not see?
(Amira Hass / Haaretz Daily)
Aug 27: How Do You Take a Gun Away?
(James Traub / New York Times)
Aug 24: Rev. Jackson offers to negotiate Middle East prisoner swap
(Associated Press)
Aug 22: Rahall's stance on Israel flares up in campaign
(Jake Stump / Charleston Daily Mail)
Aug 21: An Arab Who Wields a Rapier Wit
(Clyde Haberman / The New York Times)
Aug 18: Force not achieving ends for either side
(Ali Elhajj / Sun-Sentinel)
Aug 17: Talking only to ourselves
(Daniel Ben Simon / Haaretz Daily)
Aug 16: Hizbullah doesn't speak for Lebanon
(Zaina Arafat / Christian Science Monitor)
Aug 15: A Self-Defeating War
(George Soros / Wall Street Journal)
Aug 10: After a Lifetime of War, Lebanese Envoy Knows No Peace
(Lynne Duke / The Washington Post)
Aug 08: End This Tragedy Now
(Fouad Siniora / The Washington Post)
Aug 08: Former President of Morgan Stanley Int'l: "It's Now Considered the American War Against the Arabs...It Will Take Us Decades to Recover from What We've Done"
(Democracy Now Transcript)
Aug 03: Losing freedom bit by bit
(Gary Fields / San Diego Union-Tribune)
July
Jul 26: The Tribes of War
(Abbas El-Zein / The New York Times)
Jul 26: Congress Cautioned On Support of Israel
(Jonathan Weisman / The Washington Post)
Jul 26: No Exit
(Kevin Sites / Yahoo News)
Jul 24: Condi Rice's Mid-East Fantasy Ride
(Rami Khouri / AlterNet)
Jul 24: He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t
(Daniel Gilbert / The New York Times)
Jul 22: The Terrorism Trap
(Rashid Khalidi / The New York Times)
Jul 21: Doctor Hoping His Pregnant Wife And Daughter Make It Home From Lebanon Soon
(Aaron Roberts / WLBZ2 News)
Jul 21: Rahall votes against resolution backing Israel
(Ellyn Ferguson / Gannett News Service)
Jul 21: UN warning on Mid-East war crimes
(BBC News)
Jul 21: Operation Peace for the IDF
(Gideon Levy / Haaretz Daily)
Jul 21: Letting Lebanon Burn
(the Editors / Middle East Report Online)
Jul 20: US weapons, know-how fuel Israel's military
(Jim Wolf / Reuters)
Jul 20: Poll: Little role for U.S. in Mideast clash
(CNN)
Jul 20: Israel's Outrageous Attacks
(Los Angeles Times)
Jul 20: US weapons, know-how fuel Israel's military
(Jim Wolf / Reuters)
Jul 20: Locals with friends, relatives in war zone ‘glued’ to news
(Rory Sweeney / TimesLeader.com)
Jul 19: Political impasse crippling, but UN aid response begins
(Olivia Ward / Toronto Star)
Jul 19: The Road Back to Beirut
(Rami G. Khouri / Daily Star)
Jul 19: Poll: Little role for U.S. in Mideast clash
(Staff / CNN)
Jul 19: Israel's Outrageous Attacks
(Press / Los Angeles Times)
Jul 19: The Road Back to Beirut
(Rami G. Khouri / Herald News)
Jul 19: Political impasse crippling, but UN aid response begins
(Olivia Ward / Toronto Star)
Jul 17: Dearborn mom and 4 kids: 'We're trapped'
(Joe Menard and Lisa Martino / The Detroit News)
Jul 14: Metro families stranded as bombs strike Lebanon
(Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News)
Jul 11: Aggression Under False Pretenses
(Ismail Haniyeh / The Washington Post)
Jul 10: Israel bars Palestinian Americans for first time since 1967
(Amira Hass / Haaretz Daily)
Jul 10: My life in Gaza
(Mona El-Farra / The Boston Globe)
June
Jun 29: Israelis Batter Gaza and Seize Hamas Officials
(Ian Fisher and Steven Erlanger / The New York Times)
Jun 29: Israel Detains Hamas Officials; Jets Buzz Syria Leader's Home
(Laura King and Ken Ellingwood / Los Angeles Times)
Jun 29: Official: Gaza Near Humanitarian Crisis
(Nick Wadhams / Los Angeles Times)
Jun 28: ANALYSIS: Gaza incursion aimed at surrounding abductors
(Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel / Haaretz)
Jun 28: Israeli Troops Move Into Gaza; Bridges Are Hit
(Ian Fisher and Steven Erlanger)
Jun 28: Troops take control of airport, open areas east of Rafah
(Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, Aluf Benn and Gideon Alon / Haaretz)
Jun 28: Israeli Troops Move Into Gaza
(Scott Wilson / Washington Post Foreign Service)
Jun 27: Israeli Military Rolls into Southern Gaza Strip
(Eric Westervelt / NPR)
Jun 26: Smart, Skilled, Shut Out
(Dan Ephron / Newsweek)
Jun 25: 'No chance IDF op can rescue soldier'
(Khaled Abu Toameh and JPost Staff / the Jerusalem Post)
Jun 20: Your World Today Transcript
(CNN Transcript)
Jun 14: Arab Americans respect local police, fear feds, study says
(Hannan Adely / The Journal News)
Jun 13: U.S. Muslims Confront Taboo on Nursing Homes
(Lynette Clemetson / The New York Times)
Jun 12: Study: Arab-Americans Feel Heightened Suspicion From Law Enforcement
(Associated Press)
Jun 07: Khairullah survives
(Karen Keller / Herald News)
Jun 05: Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home
(Salman Abu Sitta / AMIN)
May
May 31: UN appeals for Palestinian funds
(Caroline Hawley / BBC News)
May 25: Words & deeds
(Mideast Mirror)
May 24: How extremists win
(The Plain Dealer)
May 23: Candidate Sal Mohamed spends day stumping on corner
(Hieu Pham / Iowa City Press-Citizen)
May 22: Building bridges at Giants Stadium
(Bob Ivry / NorthJersey.com)
May 18: Civil liberties debate leaves much of America cold
(Caroline Drees / Reuters)
May 15: Israel's new plan: A land grab
(Jimmy Carter / USA Today)
May 12: "Punish Palestinians" Bill Founders
(MJ Rosenberg / IPF Friday)
May 08: Funds Cut, Gaza Faces a Plague of Health Woes
(Steven Erlanger / The New York Times)
May 07: Palestinians losing link to U.S. care
(Matthew Kalman / San Francisco Chronicle)
May 07: Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime
(Jimmy Carter / International Herald Tribune)
April
Apr 26: Arab American Candidate Says Politics Key to Assimilation
(Caroline Drees / Reuters)
Apr 17: Palestinian Christians Suffer, too
(Robert Novak / The New York Post)
Apr 17: Calling Helen Thomas
(David Chambers / Saudi Aramco World)
Apr 17: The Up-And-Comers
(Perry Bacon Jr. and Massimo Calabresi / Time Magazine)
Apr 12: Minister Visits As U.S. Decision Nears On Acquisition Of Company With Plants In State
(Kenneth R. Gosselin / The Hartford Courant)
Apr 12: FBI bid to win over American Muslims
(Reuters)
Apr 07: Putting 'Arabian Tales' in a New Light
(Michael J. Toscano / The Washington Post)
Apr 07: Philadelphia
(MJ Rosenberg / IPF Friday)
Apr 03: Merhi's Gone; Arabs and Jews Remain
(Alfred P. Doblin / The Herald)
Apr 03: Too Hot for New York
(Philip Weiss / The Nation)
Apr 02: Power to Define 'Terrorist,' 'Terrorism' Can Help or Hurt
(Jonathan Maslow / The Herald)
March
Mar 30: Democratic Party Gave Me A Raw Deal
(Sami Merhi / The Record)
Mar 28: Sami Merhi on Tucker Carlson's "The Situation"
(MSNBC Transcript)
Mar 23: The Rise and Fall of Sami Merhi
(The Herald)
Mar 09: US Says to Close Abu Ghraib Prison
(Alastair Macdonald / Reuters)
Mar 05: Sins of the Father: Reform in Rabat
(Jim Hoagland / The Washington Post)
Mar 05: What's Behind Those Bad Poll Numbers
(Alan Abramowitz / The Washington Post)
February
Feb 26: Dr. Aref Assaf's Testimony to the New Jersey State Assembly
(Dr. Aref Assaf)
Feb 24: Why Dubai is Good for US Business
(Mansoor Ijaz / The Christian Science Monitor)
Feb 24: Iraq on Brink; Ports Deal Delay
(CNN Transcript)
Feb 24: Call It What It Is: Islamophobia
(Larry Kudlow / National Review)
Feb 23: Is anti-Arabism Behind Reaction Against Ports Deal...
(Mazin Elias / The Morning Call)
Feb 22: Port Security Humbug
(The Washington Post)
Feb 22: Growing Criticism Puzzles Many in Shipping Industry
(Meredith Cohn / The Baltimore Sun)
Feb 21: Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel
(Amira Hass / Los Angeles Times)
Feb 20: Don't Punish the Palestinians
(Jimmy Carter / The Washington Post)
Feb 15: Rice Outlines White House Approach on Iran
(Anne Gearan / The Washington Post)
Feb 13: US and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster
(Steven Erlanger / The New York Times)
Feb 01: We are Bewildered by America's Bewilderment
(Rami G. Khouri / Agence Global)
January
Jan 29: Only the Right Can
(Gideon Levy / Haaretz Daily)
Jan 27: Introducing Hamas - The New Likud
(Bradley Burston / Haaretz Daily)
Jan 23: Politics & Policies: US Must Engage Hamas
(Claude Salhani / UPI)
Jan 22: US Funds Enter Fray in Palestinian Elections
(Scott Wilson and Glenn Kessler / The Washington Post)
Jan 17: Suicide Bomber Film Wins Honor at Golden Globes
(Arthur Spiegelman / Reuters)
Jan 12: FBI Tries to Dispel Surveillance Concerns
(Lynette Clemetson / The New York Times)
Jan 06: Ariel Sharon: A Chaotic Political Legacy
(Rami G. Khouri / International Herald Tribune)
Jan 03: Hidden Assets
(The Wall Street Journal)
