By: Ahmed Abu Sultan/Arab America Contributing Writer Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in our modern lives. We have been using it for both cultural and productive use for as long as we remember. However, not many of us know how it came to be. The story of coffee is filled with history … Continued
By: Yasmina Hage/ Arab America Contributing Writer Sustainable development is a subject that we hear a lot about, and that should be of concern to us. It is a problem that impacts all generations and nationalities. Therefore, there is a growing awareness among individuals to change our lifestyles and be more respectful of the environment. … Continued
By: MacKenzie DiLeo/Arab America Contributing Writer Arab American women continue to make an impact all across the country. Whether you are looking to get involved yourself or would just like to be educated, the following article shares various organizations for Arab Americans to get involved. The following organizations raise awareness and work toward progress on … Continued
By: Safa M. Qureshi/Arab America Contributing Writer Since Islam is the dominant religion in Algeria, with over 99% percent of the population Sunni Muslims, the Algerians follow the Islamic marriage procedure. A Muslim man can marry a Muslim, Christian, or a Jewish woman. But a Muslim woman can only marry a Muslim man. A marriage … Continued
By: Lindsey Penn/Arab America Contributing Writer Lately, you may have seen the keffiyeh rising in popularity. A scarf that is traditionally from the Arab world has now spread all around the world, partly due to diasporas. Throughout the Arab world, there are multiple types and styles of the keffiyeh. Each style symbolizes something (or somewhere) … Continued
By: Raneem Ghunaim/ Arab America Contributing Writer Our lives would not have been the same without these inventors. Everything from wifi to phones to cameras, we have because the ideas have originated from Muslim inventors. Take a look and who shaped our current world. Rachid Yazami Professor Rachid Yazami is an engineer and scientist … Continued
By: Ahmed Abu Sultan/ Arab America contributing writer. Numbers are a huge part of everyone’s life. We use them when trading or even just counting time. However, numbers were not the same as they are today. In older times, symbols and letters were used to interpret value and time. Up until the 9th-century that an … Continued
By: Yasmina Hage/ Arab America Contributing Writer All Arab countries have dishes in common, but they vary from one place to the other depending on the regional spices used. Typically there is one major dish that stands out, and many of the countries will share the same favorite. For … Continued
By Emily Tain/Arab America Contributing Writer English, for the most part, is solely written in the Latin alphabet. Romance languages, like French and Spanish, also use the Latin alphabet with a few additions. The farther you stray from the US and UK, the more alphabets there are: Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew are just a few. … Continued
By: Richard Breaux/Arab America Contributing Writer What do you do when you find several dozen 78 rpm records all in Arabic and you can neither read, nor speak the language? You research the musicians and record labels and write about them.…at least that’s what Arab America contributing writer, Richard Breaux did. The result is bound … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer A Trip To Jibla–The Home Of Yemen’s Second Legendary Queen, it is a rare person who has not heard of the famous Biblical Queen of Sheba, known to the Arabs as Queen Balqis. An almost mythical person, she ruled in Yemen over the mighty Sabaean trading kingdom and left … Continued
By: Noah Robertson/Arab America Contributing Writer If I were to walk up to a random person on the street in the U.S. and ask them if the majority of Arab Americans are Muslim, or if the majority of American Muslims are Arabs, at least 50% of the time I would be told yes to one … Continued
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