photo: Fares Ksebati, co-founder and CEO of MySwimPro. By: Tanya Nawas/Staff Writer An idea, a passion, a need: Any one of these can change your life and, depending on how you handle it, many other lives as well. Take Fares Ksebati for example. A lifelong swimmer and U.S. Masters swim coach, he combined his love … Continued
BY JESSICA RADLOFF GLAMOUR In less than a month’s time, Mona Haydar’s powerful music video, “Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab),” has skyrocketed to nearly a million views on YouTube. Since then, life has changed drastically for the Syrian American activist and artist, who has become a voice for Muslim women who want to wear their hijab … Continued
By Mark Reynolds Providence Journal To President Donald Trump, Bashar Assad is an “animal” who killed children with sarin gas in northern Syria last week. But to Thomas Lazieh, a former Central Falls mayor, Syria’s president is the target of “unsubstantiated” allegations that originated in territory controlled by rebels and terrorists, and his regime is … Continued
by Pip Usher Good For Syrian-American activist and artist Mona Haydar, the runaway success of her first rap music video, ‘Hijabi,’ has caught her a little off guard. But Haydar believes that her video—which features a diverse mix of young Muslim women in hijab sitting regally together on a stairwell—could not have been released at … Continued
By Omar Al Muqdad The National In the small town of Prospect Park, New Jersey, the mayor is going further than most to state his opposition to president Donald Trump’s travel ban. He’s signed his own executive order banning the implementation of the presidential directive and declaring his town a safe haven for immigrants and … Continued
BY: Yara Jouzy/Contributing Writer The real Syria is forgotten. Our society today has associated the country with war, hatred, and terrorism, as opposed to civilization, poetry, and philosophy. The real Syrian people are human and their efforts to help their communities often go unrecognized due to misconceptions about their homeland, but it’s time to acknowledge … Continued
Watch part 2: My Immigrant Parents Starting Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nsiq… Boston, Massachusetts, was once home to one of the first major Syrian communities in the United States, starting in the 1890s. This was at a time when Syrians fought to be classed as “white” to gain citizenship. Though no physical traces of “Syriantown” remain, the memory … Continued
Christina Tkacik The Baltimore Sun It was the spring of 2011 when Alia Malek told her younger sister Rana the news: She was moving to Damascus. The Syrian uprising had just begun. People would be fleeing en masse. Yet Malek — a journalist, author and lawyer — would be flying in. The prospect was worrisome. … Continued
By Jia Tolentino The New Yorker The writer Maud Hart Lovelace, who died in 1980, at the age of eighty-seven, is best known for her semi-autobiographical “Betsy-Tacy” children’s-book series—a fizzy, modish, cult-favorite cousin of “Anne of Green Gables” and the “Little House” books, centered on two best friends in the fictional Deep Valley, which Lovelace … Continued
We are thrilled to announce that tonight we raised almost 3M at #SAMS6NC Gala Dinner to support our medical relief work! pic.twitter.com/MHdPryCfl6 — SAMS (@sams_usa) February 19, 2017 BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer In an astonishing act of fundraising, Syrian Americans raised $3 million in just one hour at the 6th annual Syrian American Medical Society … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Syrian American Trump supporters are sticking to their guns. Across the country, these Arab Americans are speaking up in favor of President Trump and his national security measures. In West Palm Beach, Florida, Anton Alzein, a Damascus-born immigrant who moved to the U.S. over 15 years ago expressed his support for … Continued
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