The Center for Arab American Philanthropy already has plans to expand, both its services and its reach, through $380,000 in funding it will receive from a W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant. The grant will allow CAAP, a project of Dearborn-based ACCESS, to continue its mission of empowering Arab Americans, including youth, through philanthropy, including efforts … Continued
This past weekend marked the beginning of Ramadan. Nearly one-fourth of the world will observe the annual fast and 8 million Muslims in America will abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset during the holy month. A grueling task at any time of the year, Ramadan this year will be especially daunting during … Continued
The Holy Antiochian Orthodox Christian Diocese of Los Angeles and the West celebrates the election of His Eminence, Archbishop Joseph as the new Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. Led by His Beatitude, Patriarch John X, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East elected … Continued
The jihadist insurgent group ISIS, or as it now prefers to be called, the Islamic State, appears well on the road to achieving its stated goal: the restoration of the caliphate. The concept, which refers to an Islamic state presided over by a leader with both political and religious authority, dates from the various Muslim … Continued
Noam Chomsky, the leading American philosopher and political activist, has said efforts to force a change in Israeli policies towards the Palestinians through boycotts risk backfiring because of insufficient support. In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and … Continued
Driven by a dedication to invest in bright students living among displaced communities, a not-for-profit entity has forever changed the lives of scores of young Palestinians. The Hope Fund (HF), as its name denotes, has managed to give underserved Palestinian refugee students a new lease on life by securing them higher education at US colleges … Continued
Saturday night marked the beginning of Ramadan, a month-long period of daily fasting observed by Muslims worldwide. DKNY, which recently launched a Middle East website and has several stores in the region, is targeting that demographic even further with its inaugural Ramadan collection and coordinating campaign. According to Savoir Flair, it’s the brand’s first ever … Continued
Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates has partnered with the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to set up a $2.5bn fund to help the poor and fight disease, it was reported. The fund, which will start with $500m raised from donors and governments, came about after Gates presented his proposal for the project at a … Continued
The Lebanese American Chamber of Commerce honored 26 judges of Middle Eastern descent on Monday, as part of their annual Salute to Justice evening event. The Chamber honored the following judges: U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh, III U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary (OH) U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Mona K. Majzoub … Continued
Inside the Karmel Square shopping mall in southwest Minneapolis, women wearing headscarves paint customers’ feet with henna. Others sell beaded caftans in narrow stalls. On the first floor, shopkeepers kneel toward Mecca to pray. Somali entrepreneurs in the neighborhood have transformed an abandoned machinery warehouse into this bustling indoor bazaar. Karmel Square is one of … Continued
In June 1984 I attended a conference in Washington DC, hosted by the newly-formed American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). I could not have been happier because, after several years of receiving scores of rejection letters, my work, The TV Arab, the first-ever to document television’s Arab images, was making its debut. At around the same time, … Continued
It was 2-1 for Algeria in 1982 in one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history. It was 2-1 for Germany 32 years later on a cool and drizzly Monday night. But this rematch, yet another terrific game in a Cup runneth over with them, shared a few commonalities with that long-ago game in … Continued
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