By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer In expanding the war zone into Lebanon, Israel puts itself in great danger. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has warned that his military is capable of taking Lebanon “back to the stone age”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have also threatened to turn Lebanon into … Continued
By: Yara Marei / Arab America Contributing Writer Food has a unique way of bringing people together, and celebrating it will make you enjoy your meal and feel grateful to receive grandma’s recipes generation after generation. So can you imagine that this great moment of grace and pleasure can be easily stolen, just like the … Continued
This is the forty-seventh of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-seventh pathbreaker is James Zogby, Lebanese Arab American, and co-founder in 1985 with his brother, John, of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based political and policy research firm. Contributing writer, John Mason depicts Zogby as a major player in U.S. domestic politics, representing the Arab American perspective, and a preeminent rooter for Palestinian aspirations.
By: Will Youmans / Arab America Contributing Writer Few famous people have undergone such a rapid transformation in reputation as has the world’s most famous barrister, Amal Clooney. Since October, social media users from around the world asked why she, a notable international human rights lawyer of Palestinian descent on her mother’s side, had been … Continued
This is the forty-fifth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Contributing writer, John Mason, depicts our forty-fifth pathbreaker, Casey Kasem, born in 1932 in Detroit to Lebanese Druze parents. He was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter. Kasem created and hosted almost four decades of ‘American Top 40’ popular song countdown programs and provided character voices for 2,000 cartoon episodes and 10,000 commercials. His rich, velvet voice was immediately recognizable to those who grew up listening to Casey.
By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize| Arab America Contributing Writer Sara Aridi: Some critics may see the film as “poverty porn” Nadine Labaki: All I can tell them is: “Get real. Get out of your cage where you’re writing your critique and go out into the world and see what’s happening around you.” What you see in … Continued
This is the forty-third of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-third pathbreaker, Anthony (Tony) Shalhoub, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 19, 1953. His father was an immigrant from Lebanon, while his mother was Lebanese American. Contributing writer, John Mason, describes how the family was raised in the Lebanese Maronite (Christian) faith. Tony was a budding actor by the sixth grade and from there he rose to stratospheric fame on both screen and stage.
This is the forty-second of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-second pathbreaker, Helen Zughaib, a painter and multimedia artist, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1959. She lived mostly in the Middle East and Europe before coming to the U.S. to study art at Syracuse University. Contributing writer, John Mason tells us how Zughaib’s work addresses matters of cultural identity, family life, the plight of refugees and displacement in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, and the Lebanese Civil War.
This is the forty-first of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-first pathbreaker, Jamie Farr, aka Jameel Joseph Farah, aka Corporal Klinger, is a well-known Arab American actor and comedian, as depicted by Arab AMerica contributing writer, John Mason. Farr was born to Lebanese immigrant parents in Toledo, Ohio. While Jamie was raised in a typically American way, he never forgot his Arab origin, often reminiscing about it in fluent Arabic.
This is the fortieth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. John Mason, contributing writer, reports on our fortieth pathbreaker, Jehan Noujaim, a renowned Arab American documentary filmmaker, born to a Lebanese father and American mother. Jehan is widely known for the art of storytelling, through film, especially in revealing the complexities of the lives of specific people living under conditions of strife and conflict. These are often Arab peoples.
By: Malak Hassouna / Arab America Contributing Writer Music bonds us all. Arabic music shows the rich diversity of the Arab world. In recent years, Arabic pop and rap music have received much-needed international recognition, making it simpler than ever to listen to and discover more Arabic music. It has also changed in significant ways … Continued
By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize | Arab America Contributing Writer Creation is a form of thinking. It’s abandoning a certain world of preoccupations in order to enter into another. Etel Adnan, Beginning with Color: An Interview with Etel Adnan March, the assigned month to celebrate Women’s achievements, grants many a space to learn about hidden female … Continued
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