Pheonician Statuettes By: Hashim Al-Tawil/Arab America Contributing Writer History of Arab Art introduces a new outlook to this hitherto marginalized field of cultural and artistic creativity, which has been inundated by myth and outdated convention. It is essentially a reinterpretation of the visual tradition among the Arab people since around 2000 BCE to the present … Continued
By: Cait O’Connor/Arab America Contributing Writer Known as the “Voice of Palestine,” Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most beloved poets both within and beyond the Arab World. As a political activist and literary icon, he wrote prolifically and received enormous praise. His reading in Beirut in 2008, shortly before his death, drew a crowd … Continued
By: Mohamed Mohamed/Arab America Contributing Writer Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-elect to the US House of Representative from Michigan’s 13th Congressional district, recently made history when she became the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives. She also made history being the first Muslim woman Representative-Elect along with Ilhan Omar, the Somali-American … Continued
Nazareth in the Roman Period–during Jesus’ boyhood By: John Mason, Arab America Contributing Writer Nazareth is the largest Arab Palestinian city inside of Israel’s northern district, the Galilee. It is the childhood home of Jesus. This is why we know him as ‘Jesus of Nazareth.’ The city is known as the Arab Palestinian capital of … Continued
By: Kareem Rosshandler/Arab America Contributing Writer Two events this past week shook the impasse on public discussion of Palestine, Rand Paul’s defiant hold up of the Senate ‘United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act’ and Marc Lamont Hill’s bold UN speech for the world to support Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and human rights. Paul … Continued
By: Ivey Noojin, Arab America Contributing Writer Congress is taking a stand against Saudi Arabia in a direct contradiction to a plethora of President Trump’s statements in regards to the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. In October of this year, many citizens of the United States began to realize the measures that the … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer “There is no more beautiful city in the world than Granada. Not even Cairo, Baghdad or Damascus with their wealth and splendour can compare with Granada.” These words inscribed on the emblem of one of the last Arab royal families in Granada describe well this Moorish city at the … Continued
By: Blanche Shaheen/Arab America Contributing Writer Some cookies have the power to take you to distant lands with one bite. Whenever I travel to other countries, I love to visit their local bakeries, where I can experience the taste, smells, and traditions of that particular culture. Usually, on the last day of my trip, I … Continued
The National U.S. – Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) announced today that Her Excellency Dina Kawar, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States, has been selected as NUSACC’s 2018 “Ambassador of the Year.” This award, begun in 2004, is given annually to a member of the Arab diplomatic corps in the … Continued
CNN on Thursday fired contributor Marc Lamont Hill for denouncing the oppression of Palestinians and endorse “a single secular democratic state for everyone” over the failed two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.The move was made just 24 hours after he delivered a speech at a meeting of the U.N.’s Committee on the Exercise of the … Continued
By Amy Hensler/Arab America Contributing Writer This week US Senator Bernie Sanders will go to the floor of the United States Senate to try and stop U.S. support for the war in Yemen. The Yemen crisis has been an international disaster. The conflict has escalated from the civil war that resulted from the Arab Spring … Continued
Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer According to The Intercept, Amazon’s Alexa voice recognition software might be used to track different ethnicities based on their speech. The “in home” assistant would use information gleaned from “language accent, ethnic origin, emotion, gender, age, and background noise…[Moreover] The algorithm [a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some … Continued
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