Author Archives: Arab America

United Palestinian Appeal is currently accepting applications for its summer internship program. The program is designed to provide interested students with valuable experience working on Palestinian issues and international development. The internship is intended to help students meet their academic, professional and personal development goals by allowing them to enhance their research and writing skills … Continued

On 3 November 2011, the self-appointed media watchdog CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) informed the Journal of Palestine Studies of an incorrect citation in an article by Ilan Pappé published in 2006. The incorrect citation referred to a quotation by Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion supporting the expulsion (“transfer”) of … Continued

yria’s President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to start implementing a peace plan by April 10, but UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council that there has been no progress yet in halting the bloodshed. Annan appealed to the 15-member council on Monday to back the deadline to increase pressure on the Syrian … Continued

2012 Miss USA Rima Fakih was on hand for many of the WrestleMania week events in Miami, Florida, prompting speculation that she had signed with WWE. The beauty queen confirmed to German celebrity gossip website Promiflash.de that she has signed a contract with the organization. When asked if she is under contract to WWE at … Continued

Suha Araj is a Palestinian-American woman making a comedy feature called “Khsara,” about Arab women who don’t get married ‘in time.’ It is a not-so-often-told, but often-experienced story: The unmarried woman past her prime. Despite her successes in life, her lack of life’s “most important” accomplishment, a HUSBAND, leaves her with the most undesirable designation: … Continued

The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is honored to welcome U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and his wife, Irene Hirano Inouye, to the Museum at 4:30 p.m. this Tuesday, April 3, for a tour of its current exhibition Patriots & Peacemakers: Arab Americans in Service to Our Country. The exhibition documents the service of … Continued

When Adnan Hammad started working on programs to improve the health of Arab Americans in the mid-1990s, he lacked important information such as the rates of cancer, diabetes within that community, or the prevalence of post-traumatic stress among refugees. Answers gradually emerged as he and other health experts and officials worldwide dove into research and … Continued

Two-thirds of all Arab-Americans are concentrated in 10 states, one-third of them in California, New York and Michigan. Detroit is in the top five metropolitan areas of Arab-American concentration. When Detroit Public Television came to Birmingham’s Hoda Succar, former president of the American Syrian Cultural Association, she put her Rolodex to work to help the … Continued

The Syrian American Medical Society of Michigan (SAMS-MI) will host its Syria 911: Medical Crisis fundraiser on Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. at the Suburban Collection Showplace. The fundraiser will be held in an effort to boost awareness of the medical crisis that is plaguing the country of Syria, and … Continued

Members of San Diego’s Iraqi community are expressing shock and surprise at the death of Shaima Alawadi, found lying in a pool of blood in the family’s El Cajon home last week. For many, the San Diego suburb has been “nothing but welcoming” to the thousands of Iraqis who have settled there in recent years. … Continued

As part of the ongoing Arabesque Lecture Series, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) hosted an event titled NYPD: The Community under a Microscope. This was the sixth lecture in the 2011-2012 series. ADC was joined by three experts, including Lynne Bernabei a founding partner at the Law Firm of Bernabei & Wachtel; Sameera Hafiz, Policy … Continued

Through this notice, DHS announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security has designated the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) for TPS for a period of 18 months, effective March 29, 2012 through September 30, 2013. Under section 244(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act), 8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(1), the Secretary is authorized to grant TPS to … Continued