Author Archives: Arab America

Jodi Rudoren’s recent piece from Jerusalem titled “Rebukes From White House Risk Buoying Netanyahu” is a full-on assault on President Obama for taking on Netanyahu over his repudiation of the two-s…

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Hatim Kanaaneh reflects on the recent Israeli election and strains to find optimism in what he sees as a rising tide of fascism in the country: “It is my belief that the Palestinian Arab minority i…

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The sudden intervention by 10 countries in Yemen’s civil war is probably confusing to most Americans. Indeed, Mark Twain supposedly held that “God created war so that Americans could learn geography.” At Brookings, we have elevated this insight to a business model. Our theory is that if our fellows maintain enough expertise on apparently obscure countries, we’ll be ready when wars break out in them to educate a suddenly interested public. Lately (and unfortunately) this theory has really been working out for us.

So today’s lesson is on Yemen, which we are reliably informed by Brookings’s Center for Middle East Policy, is a country in the Middle East. It also apparently has a long history of civil conflict, its main exports are petroleum and religious hatred, and it may or may not be vital to U.S. interests. And true to our mission, it turns out that various Brookings scholars have been beavering away on this topic for some time, just waiting for the day when you, our dear reader, would, through the clarifying lens of war, finally see that you should learn about the place. Jennifer Williams, a research assistant in the Center for Middle East Policy, has helpfully gathered much of their recent work on Yemen in a post on the Markaz blog.

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For those who think the only interesting thing about Brooklyn left when the Dodgers went to Los Angeles, the life and thought of Raphael is a corrective. In December of 1895, Raphael spoke to a group of men on science. His talk came during the height of the Victorian era when robber barons were gilding the age, the sun never set on colonial empires fueled by a pseudo-scientific racism, and Darwin was disturbing the traditional harmony between science and religion.

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Singers opened the performance with lyrics that conjured a vision of a marine sitting on the edge of a cot in an empty room of a VA medical center. He is on 72-hour hold after his most recent suicide attempt.

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The most intriguing and eye-opening book about the Palestinians to come along in years, The Olive Grove takes readers on an emotional rollercoaster ride through history. By weaving the lives of three generations of the Moghrabi family with actual historical events, the author transports the reader deep into the hearts and minds of the Palestinian psyche, providing a rare inside look at how world affairs dramatically impacted this once cohesive community.

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As an undergraduate at the University in the mid-1990s, I was incredibly optimistic about the chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed an historic accord in 1993, resulting in the establishment of the Palestinian Authority exercising a limited degree of autonomy over areas of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip from which Israel had redeployed. In 1996, Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in these territories held elections for president and a legislative council. It seemed to me that negotiations were headed in a positive direction and would end in the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, an outcome which, I believed at the time, would be a fair and just resolution to this seemingly intractable conflict.

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The Chapel Hill murders must be seen as a tipping point and opportunity to examine and confront the forces that are leading Americans to believe the Islamic faith seeks to destroy “American values”

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Assad says he is open to dialogue with US based on ‘mutual respect’

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Joint List leader Ayman Odeh began a march from the Negev to the Knesset in Jerusalem to highlight the plight of the Bedouins living there

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Assad discusses the Syrian conflict with Flemish nationalist Filip Dewinter, who critics accuse of being Islamophobic

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Flawed Holy Land Principles for “ethical” business practices ignore the fundamental rights of Palestinians.

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