THE WHITE HOUSE The White House Office of the Press Secretary Michelle and I extend our greetings for a happy Eid-ul-Adha to Muslims worldwide and wish safe travels to those performing Hajj. This year, nearly three million pilgrims from more than 160 countries – including the United States – have gathered in Mecca and neighboring … Continued
Among the 1.8 million Muslims on pilgrimage, or Hajj, to the holy city of Mecca are a few stealing moments to send 140-character messages to the world. Here are snippets from the conversation on the Twittersphere. The Hajj, which should be performed by every Muslim with the means to do so at least once in … Continued
Sharing is caring, and now JetBlue Airways and Emirates Airlines are right on top of that. The two have agreed as of today (Monday, Nov. 15) to sell tickets on each other’s flights. What does that mean for the U.S. traveler? Basically, U.S. passengers can buy tickets through JetBlue to destinations that Emirates serves around … Continued
A guest lecture at Henry Ford Community College on problems in Palestine turned into a passionate discussion with no clear answers for the future. Author and Middle East scholar, Norman Finkelstein, presented “Eyeless in Gaza: What Americans Aren’t Seeing in the Middle East,” at the college on Tuesday. Looking over the crowd of more than … Continued
As expected, last week’s midterm elections yielded major gains to the Republican Party in both the House and Senate. Republicans have won control of the House of Representatives with a net gain of 60 seats thus far and Democrats barely retained control of the Senate. Current Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will be Speaker of … Continued
The bloody assault on Baghdad’s Church of Our Lady of Salvation has opened the door to a bigger question about the fate of Christian citizens in Middle Eastern countries, and the future of their presence there. Furthermore, it has exposed an Arab and Islamic wound, and we must get to the source of this crisis. … Continued
Studying honor killings is not the same as sensationalizing them — but Columbia University professor Lila Abu-Lughod disagrees. Moreover, she believes that indigenous Arab and Muslim behavior, including honor-related violence, is best understood as a consequence of Western colonialism — perhaps even of “Islamophobia.” On October 25, 2010, at the American University of Beirut, Abu-Lughod … Continued
When I was in Morocco for about a month in 1981, I learned not to speak to the women there — especially women who wear the head covering called the hijab. Maybe it was because I was a stranger, but I had some vague notion that religious Muslim women were not allowed to talk to … Continued
Last month, Adonis was robbed again of a Nobel Prize, after first being nominated in 1988. He would have been the second Arab to receive the honor. With over thirty published books in almost equal number of languages, Ali Ahmed Said Esber, through his literary pseudonym, Adonis, is the Arab world’s most renowned poet and … Continued
The brutal attack on a Baghdad church by al-Qaida in Iraq last week, together with subsequent attacks this week, has prompted a renewed interest in the declining numbers of Christians in the Arab world. While some commentators have limited their views to the tragedy unfolding in Iraq, others have generalised about the doomed fate of … Continued
All week I’ve been looking for signs of the thaw. The mile-long queue of Turkish and European Union-plated trucks idling at the border was the first, and surely the optimism with which the taxi drivers talked about the future, zigzagging through the streets of Aleppo, was another. But as I wander the tributaries of the … Continued
The Canadian Arctic’s first mosque opened on in Inuvik to serve as spiritual home to the area’s fledgling Islamic community, a mosque committee member said. The mosque arrived in the small northern town last month after traveling 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) over land and water. Several journalists, including Arab television reporters joined local Muslims for … Continued
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