Author Archives: Arab America

At first glance, it may have seemed that we Arabs were not that present in the news this week. Syria was mostly out of the headlines, the Palestinians and Israelis are in their secret cove somewhere negotiating, and the rest of the Arab world was relatively quiet. But if you watch the news the way … Continued

An independent investigator hired by the national office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has interviewed a number of women over the past three months who say they were sexually harassed by the group’s senior national adviser and Michigan director, according to attorneys and others involved with the investigation. Imad Hamad, an Arab-American civil rights … Continued

  Every now and then a little sunshine breaks through, and Palestinians enjoy the light. Thanks to occasional complex portrayals in film, television and documentary reporting, they become real people with a cause we can all relate to, seeking justice and freedom. That was true of the Palestinian characters in Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2004), who … Continued

Tourists visiting the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City can read its brochures in 10 different languages – but Arabic is not one of them. Nor will it be any time soon. “Nine languages are spoken by over 97 percent of our visitors: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese and Russian,” a … Continued

The September 11 Memorial Museum will not open its doors until April of 2014, but is already sending out signs that some are more welcome than others. As Raed Jarrar, communications director for the Arab-American Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC), points out, while museum brochures will be available in the nine languages that are said to … Continued

The Arab American National Museum (AANM) has achieved accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition for a museum. Accreditation signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies and to the museum-going public. AANM Director Devon Akmon will formally announce the Museum’s AAM accreditation this evening at an … Continued

The nation’s only museum focused on the lives and contributions of Arab Americans is increasing its footprint along Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, amid the largest concentration of Arabs outside the nations of the Arab World. The Arab American National Museum (AANM) will rehabilitate and occupy the former Zamboni Room bar and Dynamic Mortgage … Continued

The Arab American National Museum has earned accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums, something just 6 percent of the nation’s 17,500 museums have earned. The museum is planning to announce the honor at a private reception Monday evening. The group examines all aspects of a museum’s operation, and a group of peer reviewers visit … Continued

Today marks 31 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre — one of the bloodiest and most brutal atrocities of our time. On September 16, 1982, shortly after Israeli troops seized control of west Beirut, the right-wing Lebanese militia forces operating under the direction of Israeli forces massacred over one thousand defenseless men, women and … Continued

It is now a proven fact that chemical weapons were used in Syria. As a result, nearly 1,450 people died, one-third of them children. The Obama administration asserts that the Bashar al-Assad regime is the culprit, which undertook these clear violations of international humanitarian law and the treaty that bans the chemical weapons use. It … Continued

The agreement for the US to provide raw intelligence data to Israel was reached in principle in March 2009, the document shows. Photograph: James Emery The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower … Continued

Earlier this month, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) issued a Community Advisory following a New York Times article entitled, “F.B.I. Sharpens Scrutiny of Syrians in U.S.”. The article revealed that the FBI was increasing surveillance of Syrians inside the United States. Over the course of the past week, ADC has received numerous phone calls and … Continued