Author Archives: Arab America

Members of Chicago’s Syrian-American community gathered Sunday under a sweltering sun, calling for President Barack Obama to lead the ouster of the Middle Eastern country’s ruler, President Bashar Assad. In Syria, more than 100 people, including women and children, lay dead in the Syrian town of Houla, the latest victims of Assad’s violent rule, according … Continued

Golden Thread Productions, the pioneering San Francisco-based theatre company focused on the Middle East is proud to stage a new play by one of the best Arab American playwrights of our time. Please contact me directly to arrange for group tickets. Torange 510.593.4749 Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi touches on themes of identity, immigration … Continued

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is pleased to announce Muna and Basem Hishmeh as the 2012 recipients of the Alex Odeh Memorial Award. The Alex Odeh Memorial Award, named for the late ADC Southern California Regional Director who was killed in October of 1985, is presented each year to individuals demonstrating exceptional leadership, public service, … Continued

Algerian singer Warda, Known throughout the region as Warda Al Jazairia (Warda the Algerian) and whose powerful vocal range and patriotic songs earned her legendary status throughout the Arab world, died of a heart attack late on Thursday aged 72, her family said. “Along with Lebanon’s Fayrouz and Egypt’s late Om Kalthoum, Warda was one … Continued

ADC is pleased to announce that our student rates for this year’s upcoming ADC National Convention will be drop more than 50% for the next 100 eligible student registrants! Thanks to our generous supporters and donors, we have been able make student registrations only $100 this year. ADC has been contacted by students who are … Continued

Hayan Charara has done a great service by assembling this anthology, which features Arab American poets of widely divergent backgrounds. This ensures a rich and complex collection that seems to justifiably revel in its diversity and the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of voices, memories, images, emotions and ideas to which it gives voice. Charara’s opening essay offers … Continued

Our students represent the next generation of civil rights leaders, lawyers, journalists, and activists. With that in mind, the Arab American community must not take its responsibility to invest in our youth lightly. We at ADC certainly do not. These are the years when they are most passionate and enthusiastic. We must engage them in … Continued

<center><iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/BuhWjclnXlc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe></center> What memories do we hold most dear as Arab Americans? — the time we spend eating, laughing, and sharing stories with our relatives and friends. We have an amazing heritage. Let’s cherish it and share it with other Americans! As part of our mission to preserve Arab American identity, … Continued

A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real number of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East — a move that could result in a change of status for … Continued

How important are charitable or philanthropic funds established by ethnic or racial groups? Has the development of middle classes in the African American, Asian American, and Latino communities reduced the pressure on groups to generate capital to fund the needs of their own communities? Have comparatively newer ethnic or racial groups in the U.S. begun … Continued

WHEN “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” was postponed and then pulled from the New York Theater Workshop in March 2006, the ensuing furor raged chiefly between critics of the play’s unequivocal sympathy for the Palestinian cause and those, like Tony Kushner and Harold Pinter, who worried that the workshop had bowed to political censorship. But … Continued

When it began back in 1993, the Concert of Colors – Detroit’s annual summer festival celebrating cultural diversity through music – was a modest, single-day affair at Chene Park on Detroit’s riverfront. The lineup included Jerry and Andy Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band (Latin jazz), East Indian vocalist Najma, and Hassan Hakmoun (Moroccan Sufi), … Continued