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Ruṭabiyah-Made of Dates
Aug 26, 2026
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The importance of dates in the diet of the Bedouin - a diet eaten for centuries in the Arabian Peninsula, led the Bedouin to call dates ‘the bread of the desert’. Dates are(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Noor Tagouri
Aug 26, 2026
Photo Wikipedia By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 131st article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism, and politics.(...)
Why is Riyadh the Capital of Saudi Arabia?
Aug 26, 2026
Image: NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer A question often heard in Arab and non-Arab communities alike is the question of why Riyadh is the capital of Saudi(...)
Solidarity Against Occupation: From Ukraine to Palestine
Aug 26, 2026
Image by Wikimedia Commons By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer At the end of 2024, I found myself at a Slavic conference in Boston, in the second year of the genocide in Gaza and the third year of(...)
Siege of Taybeh: The Christian Bulwark of the West Bank
Aug 26, 2026
Image: Julien Harneis from Conakry, Guinea, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer The West Bank of Palestine has been the target of increasing harassment and violence from illegal Israeli settlers(...)
Public Health Crisis on Women in Gaza
Aug 26, 2026
Photo Credit: Women weep at the destruction of Khan Younis camp in Gaza during the second intifada. © 2001 UNRWA Photo by Adnan Abu Hasna (Wikicommons) By: Nadia Boughanmi / Contributing Arab America Writer1 million, the amount of women that are(...)
Israel's Current Path Threatens Its Future
Aug 26, 2026
Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Israel nowadays treats military force as an inexhaustible resource and diplomacy as an expendable luxury. Since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack — which Israel has treated as an(...)
The Umayyad Mosque: A Symbol of Christian-Muslim Tolerance
Aug 19, 2026
Image: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By: Connor J. Buss / Arab America Contributing Writer On September 19, 634 AD, the Syrian city of Damascus was surrendered to Muslim soldiers of the Rashidun Caliphate. It was(...)
All Sides Lose in the War of Attrition with Iran
Aug 19, 2026
Photo: Wikipedia--President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend the Dignified Transfer of remains of six U.S. soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (Official White(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America— John Makhoul
Aug 19, 2026
Photo-Center for Arabic Culture By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the 130th article in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features figures from entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism,(...)
Music Between Tarab and Arabesque: A Conversation With Firas Zreik
Aug 19, 2026
Photo Credit: Oukool Creative By: Rami Balin / Arab America Contributing Writer Firas Zreik is a Palestinian musician, composer, and educator currently based in New York City. His bold experimentation across genres blends Arab music, jazz, and many other musical(...)
Eggplant and Lentil Stew - Badhinjan wa ‘Adas
Aug 18, 2026
Photo Credit: Pexels By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Some lovers of lentil foods even wrote poetry about their beloved pulse. In the following poem ‘Song to the Lentil’ - Roy Blount, Jr. writes: If we are good basic people,(...)5,137 Results (Page 1 of 429)