By: Claire Boyle / Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: The Ford Motor Company has been powering Americans to get where they need to go for over a century. But were you aware that Arab Americans in Detroit, Michigan were also thrusting the company towards success in the early 1900s? Arab Americans lived in Detroit and … Continued
Imagine a fire, what is the first thing you’ll grab? Take a minute to really think, what is special enough to save. What material items are worth risking your life for? Despite the horridness of this scenario, there is a silver lining which is that it forces us to reconsider what is valuable. Intern Menal Elmaliki, brings insight on minimalism, why you should be a minimalist. Minimalism, though seemingly modern, is an Islamic value and also a value shared in all religions, and past cultural traditions.
By: Leyelle Mosallam / Arab America Contributing Writer In a post 9/11 world, football is how the Arab-American Muslim community in Dearborn expresses their American identity. Fordson High School, located in Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the highest Arab American high school student bodies in the United States. 95% of Fordson High School’s student body … Continued
By: Claire Boyle / Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: Over the last decade, an interesting trend has been happening in higher education, and that is the increased enrollment of Muslim students in Roman Catholic colleges and universities. So, some might be asking, “why are more Muslim students attending Catholic colleges and universities, and also why … Continued
By: Omar Mansour / Arab America Contributing Writer Long before 9/11, Arabs and Muslims have been on the receiving end of institutionalized racism from the American government and law enforcement agencies. The earliest example of this discriminatory policy is the little-known “Operation Boulder” initiative, a program launched by the Nixon Administration in 1972, allegedly a … Continued
By: Claire Boyle/Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: The Vatican recently announced that Pope Francis will be traveling to the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq to offer a prayer in the hopes of pursuing interfaith dialogue between Iraqi Christians, Muslims, and other religious minorities in the country. Why is this important? Well, for … Continued
Nearly 30 years after arriving from Morocco, after building a life and family here, I still hear: “Go back home!” SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: LAILA LALAMI “Go back home!” the note said. As it happened, I was already home, curled up on the sofa and scrolling through notifications on my mobile phone. Earlier … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: OLIVER LAUGHLAND The call to prayer bounces off the walls of the Hamtramck Islamic centre, punctuated by the sipping of lemon juice and the chewing of dates. It’s 8.53pm, the sun has set, and around 100 Yemeni-American men and boys sit cross-legged on the carpet, giving thanks and breaking fast for … Continued
SOURCE: LANCASTER ONLINE BY: JOAN KERN About 100 people turned out to hear Moustafa Bayoumi speak Thursday evening at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster on being young and Muslim in America. The talk was based on Bayoumi’s 2008 book, “How Does It Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America,” which … Continued
SOURCE: THE HUFF POST BY: LAKSHMI SRIDARAN Adam Purinton, the white man who yelled, “Get out of my country” before shooting to death Indian-American Srinivas Kuchibhotla at a bar in Kansas, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder charges. Kuchibhotla’s killing, a hate crime by all accounts, cannot be seen as an anomaly. It speaks … Continued
SOURCE: NEWSTATESMAN BY: MEHDI HASAN Timing has never been my strong suit. I moved to the United States from Britain only a few weeks before Donald Trump declared that he was running for president in the summer of 2015. Trump launched his primary campaign by smearing Mexican immigrants as “rapists”, and by the end of … Continued
SOURCE: YABILADI BY: LATIFA BABAS Pressured to abandon their faith and convert to Christianity, the life of Moriscos in Spain was almost unbearable following the Expulsion decreed by King Philip III. While, everyone claims that they have surrendered to this pressure and ended up integrating into the new Christian society, new poems written in Arabic … Continued
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