The Arab American National Museum will be offering Arabic Classes with Yasser Mansour. Intro to Arabic returns to the museum in early February. These small-group sessions held weekly on Saturday mornings allow for plenty of practice and interaction during the 10-week semester. Tuition, $235/$200 Museum Members, must be paid no later than 5 p.m. Friday, … Continued
A lack of Arabic content on the web is impacting Internet growth in the Arab world, a Google representative said on Sunday. Nelson Mattos, Google vice president of product management and engineering for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said that although the Arab world is home to the “highest growth rate in terms of Internet … Continued
The Barjeel Foundation opened its doors nine months ago with ambitious aims: to find the story of the Arab world and share it through contemporary art. Sheikh Sultan Al Qassemi, the co-founder of Meem Gallery in Dubai, non-resident Fellow at the Dubai School of Government and a weekly columnist with The National, created the foundation … Continued
Here we go again. Hummus is back in the news, and almost on the front pages of American newspapers. My column, titled ‘The Undeclared War on Arab Cuisine’ and written more than two years ago, had received more letters than most columns I have written. This is probably because I challenged the claims of Israelis … Continued
More than 800 young Saudis — including creators, writers, bloggers and all-around leaders — had the opportunity to share their aspirations and insights at the first TEDx Arabia. “When we see ourselves in the mirror and understand our abilities then we can talk about innovation,” said Thamer Shaker, whose work appears in several Saudi newspapers … Continued
Oh, Helen, Behave Helen, don’t you know that you can’t say the Jews should get the hell out of Palestine? Don’t you know it’s not even called Palestine? Don’t you know that there never was a Palestine? C’mon, Helen… Don’t you know you can’t talk about the extreme bias in American media in favor of … Continued
Acclaimed poet, teacher and translator Khaled Mattawa has been awarded a United States Artist Fellowship for 2010. The unrestricted $50,000 grant is one of 52 awards presented this year to visual, design, performing and literary artists from 18 states and Puerto Rico. Mattawa, associate professor of English language and literature, teaches in the Graduate Creative … Continued
Omar Offendum is a Syrian-American hip-hop artist and a great lyricist. Some of his tracks include a translation from the great Syrian legendary poet, Nizar Qabbani, from Arabic to English, which talks about the experience of being an Arab living in the US. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised between Saudi Arabia and the US, … Continued
The world’s biggest food and beverage company, Nestle, will invest $400m in the Middle East over the next three years, senior officials at the firm have said. Speaking at the opening of a factory in Dubai – Nestle’s first new confectionary manufacturing facility built anywhere in the world for more than a decade – the … Continued
Each Sunday at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Cathedral in Los Angeles begins with two services, representing the old and new at the decades-old congregation. The morning starts with an 8 a.m. liturgy in Spanish, followed by a larger service at 10 a.m. in English and Arabic. But this weekend, both groups of congregants will … Continued
Striking a defiant tone, journalist Helen Thomas, 90, said today she absolutely stands by her controversial comments about Israel made earlier this year that led to her resignation. But she stoked additional controversy with new remarks, claiming that “Zionists” control U.S. foreign policy and other American institutions. The local Jewish community strongly condemned her remarks. … Continued
These remarks were delivered at a tribute for Helen Thomas, Thursday, November 18, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC D.C., sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). I’m very proud to be asked to speak at a tribute to one of the great journalists in the history of this country – Helen … Continued
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