Author Archives: Arab America

American Arab journalists gathered this past weekend in a suburb of Detroit to organize a professional union and to plan conferences to advocate for community coverage in the mainstream media. The summit was hosted by Michigan Accident Attorney Joumana Kayrouz at her Bloomfield Hills home, and supported by Ziyad Brothers Importing, both major advertisers who … Continued

One positive outcome of the WCIT held in Dubai was setting the stage for greater cooperation between the International Telecommunication Union and Internet Corporation for Assignment Names and Numbers (Icann), the global regulator of Web addresses. As part of Icann’s top-level domain programme, the Arab world now has a pan-regional internet domain name shabaka, the … Continued

Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes between notes that characterize Arabic “makams.” “The makams are scales and modes with quarter-tones and three quarter-tones intervals,” Maalouf says. “This is something … Continued

Tony Award-winning actor/writer Suheir Hammad and Susan Abulhawa, the international best-selling author of Mornings in Jenin, are among the leading Arab American artists scheduled to appear at DIWAN5: A Forum for the Arts April 5-6 at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. Diwan is an Arabic word for gathering. DIWAN5: A Forum for the … Continued

A group of U.S. Muslims and Arab-Americans are visiting the North African country of Morocco this week to talk with that nation’s government and civil organizations about strengthening democracy, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The 16-member U.S. delegation has met with officials from groups including the country’s parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and … Continued

On Tuesday 26th March, Arab Americans urged US President Barack Obama to work towards ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory as he has called during his recent visit to Israel and Palestine, Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) commended in a statement Obama’s call for an end to … Continued

<center><iframe width=”450″ height=”253″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/xYku1Bagha0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></center> In 2012 when insurgents were unleashing a string of attacks across Iraq, who would have dared take on the task of bringing warring religious factions together in face-to-face talks? That would be Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, an immigrant to the U.S. from the Middle East and founder of Kommon Denominator, … Continued

With the conclusion of his trip to the Middle East last week comes reflection over the messages President Obama conveyed and the role of the United States in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. ADC commends the President on his statement calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and the daily indignities Palestinians suffer … Continued

At the turn of the last century, Manhattan’s Lower West Side was a bustling hub of life for Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants who set up shops and moved into tenements in a community known as Little Syria. Now, there is little left marking the old neighborhood, seen as an epicenter of Arab immigration that … Continued

Detroit Native, Keegan Michael Key from Comedy Central’s Key and Peele will headline the signature 10th Annual Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference, Empowering our Nation by Engaging Communities along with Haaz Sleiman, the star of the award winning and Hollywood acclaimed movie “The Visitor” with special guest, internationally renowned Diversity, inspirational and motivational speaker Victor … Continued

US policy in the Arab world has long been widely unpopular, to put it mildly. Nonetheless, many in the region recognised the influence of the US on their governments and consequentially on their own lives, and paid careful attention to American statements. Signs of change in President Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo were met with … Continued

Rap and hip-hop were both a driving force, and a coping mechanism, for people in the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring. In particular, the music of Tupac Shakur resonates with Arabs, long after the U.S. rapper’s own death. But why? Michel Martin looks for an answer, along with Khaled M, a … Continued