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'Music Was Always The Escape': Omar Kamal On Shaping His Artistic Identity

Jan 2, 2017

NPR Staff Morning Edition Twenty-four-year-old jazz crooner Omar Kamal is a certified heartthrob. The debonair singer, called the "Palestinian Frank Sinatra"(...)

Arab American Radio Icon Diane Rehm Signs Off After 37 Years

Jan 2, 2017

By Caitlin Gibson The Washington Post It began the way it always has: “From WAMU in Washington, I’m Diane Rehm,”(...)

Hilarion Capucci, priest of Palestinian resistance, dies

Jan 2, 2017

Hillarion Capucci reading the bible on the Mavi Marmara, the main ship in the Freedom Flotilla that attempted to break(...)

‘Don’t Speak Arabic Here’

Jan 1, 2017

By Hasheemah Afaneh The Huffington Post “Don’t speak Arabic here.” That was one of the first pieces of advice I received(...)

Arab American legal group vows to guard civil rights

Jan 1, 2017

By Candice Williams, The Detroit News Members of the local legal community recently gathered to discuss the effects of a Donald(...)

U.S. Congressman urges action to save Iraqi Christians

Jan 1, 2017

A Christian Iraqi woman cries after she saw the St. Addai church which was damaged by Islamic State fighters during(...)

Syrian musician seeks American dream

Jan 1, 2017

By Sean Yoder Indiana Gazette Nashwan Abdullah wants to be a composer. He said he also wants to be an(...)

7 movies where Arabs or Muslims are everything but the heroes

Dec 31, 2016

By Leyal Khalife Stepfeed I think at this point we've all gotten used to the fact that an Arab or(...)

Optimism at Last for Egyptian-American Jailed in Egypt, Her Family

Dec 31, 2016

American Citizen Aya Hijazi Imprisoned Without Trial By MATTHEW BARAKAT ABC Family and friends of an American jailed in(...)

Israel's never-ending crimes: It's not just settlements

Dec 31, 2016

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in front of a new Jewish settlement construction site, in the Occupied(...)

Palestinian Women Develop Cooperatives and Self-Determination

Dec 31, 2016

BY: CHRISTINA OBOLENSKAYA Grassroots International Under Israeli occupation, Palestinians have suffered as their lands and water resources are confiscated, homes(...)

9 questions about the UN vote on Israeli settlements you were too embarrassed to ask

Dec 30, 2016

By Jennifer Williams VOX A controversial new United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory has triggered(...)