Author Archives: Arab America

This week, ABC Family picked up a pilot episode of “Alice in Arabia.” ABC Family belongs to the family of networks under the umbrella of the Walt Disney Company. The networks encapsulates the show for us: <blockquote>Alice in Arabia is a high-stakes drama about a rebellious teenage girl who, after tragedy befalls her parents, in … Continued

The leadership, boards and staff of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and its parent organization ACCESS join the national Antiochian Orthodox community and the Arab American community in mourning the loss of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip (Saliba). The Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America for the Antiochian … Continued

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“It’s the Arabic hospitality that I want to introduce people to,” says Lubna Najjar, designer and owner of Lubna Designs Inc., of her new fashion showroom, Il Moda (Arabic for The fashion) set to open late summer 2014. Najjar is a gifted fashion designer and proud American-Arab. She had an assortment of 25 beautifully designed … Continued

A senior State Department official says the Syrian government has been told it must immediately suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the United States. The order Tuesday essentially shutters the Syrian embassy in Washington and its honorary consulates in Troy, Michigan, and Houston, Texas, and forces all personnel who are not legal U.S. residents … Continued

Arab America (test.arabamerica.com) is a national for-profit organization (located in Washington, DC) founded with the purpose of promoting an accurate image about the Arab American community and the Arab world through the development of media, culture and education. With over three and a half million Arab Americans in the U.S., Arab America’s primary mission is … Continued

Joseph R. Haiek immigrated to the United States right after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war after his city, Jerusalem, was occupied by Israeli forces. But no American Arab has done more to embrace his newfound nation of America more than Joe Haiek, who in 2011 was recognized with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his … Continued

Current events in war-torn Syria inspired an Arab American woman, Lilas Taha, to write Shadows of Damascus, her first novel, published 1/13/2014 by Soul Mate Publishing in New York, and available for download on Amazon. The story centers on the promise, Adam Wegener, an American soldier serving in Iraq, makes to a Syrian man who … Continued

She was a Sorbonne graduate of child psychology, an author of a book of fairy tales – and a Muslim covert intelligence officer who died fighting the Nazis. Now, her remarkable story is being brought to the screen in the docudrama <i>Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story</i>, which will be screened at … Continued

The Arab American News grabs a live wire of community relations: merchant-customer interaction in Detroit. “The relationship between Arab American store owners and their African American customers has been defined by tension, mistrust and suspicion,” says an editorial in the paper owned by publisher-founder Osama Siblani. In this relationship, of course, no party is innocent. … Continued

USPCN is proud to be a signatory to this statement and demand for the Right to Return and the protection of our people in Yarmouk and other camps in Syria. The statement was developed by the Global Right to Return Coalition and the many Palestinian associations, unions, committees listed below, all declaring that the Right … Continued

With profound disappointment and righteous indignation Northeastern University Students for Justice in Palestine announces it has been suspended as an organization. SJP is disappointed because Northeastern’s claims of creating a diverse learning environment that encourages the free exchange of ideas and promotes Academic Freedom are impossible to reconcile with the university’s decision to suppress our … Continued