By: Qaïs S. Ahmadī/ Arab America Contributing Writer Before the silver screen, the television, and social media, stories were told by storytellers in spoken word. In ancient cultures, orators speak of religion, history, wars, and epics, etc. In the Arab and Muslim world, stories are still performed. However, these stories are muted by Western orientalist … Continued
By John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer Palestinian citizens of Israel have, in the context of the recent war, begun to promote their own interests and identity. While Israeli Palestinians were sticking up for their own rights, some Democratic politicians in the U.S. got in trouble with the language they used in supporting the … Continued
By: Dani Meyer/Arab America Contributing Writer As the Black Lives Matter movement becomes part of what we talk about every day, so do conversations about anti-racism. Without a doubt, these conversations can be uncomfortable, especially when it comes to calling people out. There are forms of racism in Arab society that we need to speak … Continued
SOURCE: RT.COM A customer left a racist note on their check in a Texas steakhouse, unleashing an outpouring of fury and support for the waiter who was bizarrely branded a terrorist. Khalil Cavil was working at the Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa when he received the note written on the check for one of his … Continued
SOURCE: FORWARD BY: YOUSEF MUNAYYER “Excuse me sir,” my mother would say in her precise and native Hebrew to the first security agent she would spot at the Israeli airport. “I am an Arab.” This was the strategy my mom had adopted to deal with racial profiling when traveling back to the US from Israel … Continued
Every 46 seconds an Israeli Jew publishes a racist or inciting comment against Arabs on Facebook and other social networks, a new study finds. According to the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media (7amleh), which published its Index for Racism and Incitement on Social Media last week, 60,000 active Israeli social media users published … Continued
By Meg Wagner Daily News A West Virginia high school teacher has been suspended for her racist Twitter history filled with anti-Muslim rants and attacks on the president, including one post that insisted that the suspects accused of torturing a mentally disabled teen could be “Obama’s children.” Mary Durstein, a social studies teacher at Huntington … Continued
By Sarah Harvard Mic.com Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has an Emmy nomination for his work on Al Jazeera English’s The Stream, but that didn’t help him with his Uber driver on Sunday night. At around 10 p.m., Eldin, a correspondent for AJPlus, requested an Uber ride after arriving at Union Station in Washington, D.C., where he had … Continued
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