Author Archives: Arab America

Last week, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) offered community members the opportunity to contemplate and discuss this year’s elections from the Arab American perspective through its fourth event of the Arabesque Lecture Series, A Look at the 2012 United States Elections. ADC was honored to welcome its two guest speakers for the evening: international human … Continued

Twitter announced last Wednesday they are working on adding right-to-left languages, starting with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. The efforts of the @supportarabic campaign have not gone to waste. “More than 425,000 volunteers contributed to the Translation Center, and to date have helped make Twitter available in 22 languages. With their help, these will be … Continued

American presidential politics is always closely watched by many outside the U.S., since who ever becomes putative leader of the free world can have such a profound effect on the rest of the world. This year, however, the 2012 presidential race is of particular interest to a very special new constituency—Arabs, and especially the young … Continued

The attorney for four Star International Academy football players, charged with assault and battery following a scuffle at an October high school game against Lutheran High, said he believes the players were criminally charged because they are Arab-American. Farmington Hills attorney Nabih Ayad plans to ask Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy that the charges, all … Continued

The National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC), in cooperation with the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today hosted H.E. Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE’s Minister for Foreign Trade. At a luncheon that included 250 business leaders and government officials, including ambassadors representing a number of Arab nations, Her Excellency highlighted … Continued

When the Founding Fathers drafted the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, their definition of “We, the People” was essentially people just like themselves – free white men. Today, “We” are a much more inclusive group, yet many still believe that minorities and immigrants are somehow not worthy of being called Americans. The Arab American National … Continued

About 150 protesters with Occupy Detroit and the Arab-American community held a joint rally today in downtown Detroit on the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Tahrir Square in Egypt. The crowd walked from Grand Circus Park to the federal McNamara building and back, holding up signs that read: “From Tahrir to Detroit, we are … Continued

A grant announced this week will assist continued efforts of cancer awareness and detection within Dearborn’s Arab-American community and beyond. The $65,000 grant from the Avon Foundation’s Breast Health Outreach will provide funding to the Community Health and Research Center arm of Dearborn nonprofit ACCESS, aimed at increasing awareness of the lifesaving benefits of early … Continued

Recently speaking at a town hall meeting at an American Legion Hall in Lady Lake, Florida, presidential hopeful Rick Santorum fielded a question, or rather, a comment from a woman in the audience who forcefully proclaimed: “I never refer to Obama as President Obama because legally he is not. He constantly says that our constitution … Continued

Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House. “This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America,” a narrator intones. “A strategy to … Continued

It is a striking coincidence that the first anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution – which unseated longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak – will take place only days after the United States commemorates civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr. On January 16, I joined friends and toured the newly erected monument honoring King, encircled by … Continued

Tareq, a Syrian American graphic designer living in Silicon Valley, says his life has “completely changed 100 percent over the past year,” a change he credits to protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square exactly one year ago today. That date has since been enshrined as a pivotal moment in the evolution of the Arab Spring. The … Continued