Written by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh and directed by Campo alumnus Omar Metwally, “Habibi” can be as hard to pin down as it is riveting. The second offering in Campo and Intersection’s trilogy by first-time playwrights – after Chinaka Hodge’s remarkable “Mirrors in Every Corner” in March – the play that opened Monday is a noteworthy debut. … Continued
Secretary Clinton: Thank you very much, Ziad, for that introduction and for your leadership of this important organization, and for you and the steadfast support that ATFP has given to the cause of peace. I am pleased that there are so many friends and colleagues here tonight, and it is especially gratifying for me to … Continued
One of Raphael’s most famous paintings, The School of Athens, is a fresco on the walls of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, depicting the world’s great philosophers. At the centre stand Plato and Aristotle. Surrounding them are figures such as Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes. Among the celebrated Greek philosophers is a lone Muslim: Ibn … Continued
The two didn’t appear on stage together and spoke separately to more than 500 people at the American Arab Chamber of Commerce annual banquet. Snyder, an Ann Arbor Republican and businessman, said it’s time for residents of the state to drop the labels that define them, whether those tags are political, ideological or geographical. The … Continued
In the early days after 9/11, employees of the Arab American Institute huddled in their modest K Street offices, afraid to leave the building. Police downstairs guarded the entrance, serving as protection from those who might deliver on the death threats sent to the nonprofit’s founder and president, James Zogby. Raghead, they had said. I’ll … Continued
Juan Williams was fired as NPR analyst over comments made about Muslims on planes. Juan Williams was fired as NPR analyst over comments made about Muslims on planes. National Public Radio said it terminated the contract of a news analyst after he said on a Fox News show that he gets nervous when he sees … Continued
From behind a wood and plastic partition, the Israeli soldier who drove a bulldozer that crushed an American peace activist to death testified publicly for the first time Thursday. Rachel Corrie was killed seven years ago. But the driver’s identity has never been revealed and he was not charged after a month-long Israeli investigation found … Continued
“Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, the United States has been more deeply enmeshed and invested in this region than anywhere else. During this nearly forty-year period, Americans have spent more money, sold more weapons, devoted more political capital, sent more troops, fought more was, and lost more lives in … Continued
With less than three weeks to go before election day, candidates around the country are stepping up their efforts to reach voters. In northern Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., Congressional candidates attended a forum which was organized for Arab-American voters. Civil, religious freedoms The controversy over the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in New York City … Continued
It’s been 25 years since Alex Odeh was killed by a bombing at his Santa Ana office. The FBI marked the anniversary by announcing it has not dropped its investigation of the incident and that a reward of up to $1 million has been offered for information that leads to the apprehension of whoever was … Continued
The threat hung over Ekhlas Naeem, 50, and her family, the sole Christians in their neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Muslim extremists harassed her sons at work and school, kidnapping and beating her eldest. Masked militia members robbed her father and sisters. Naeem and her family fled to Syria in 2007 and came to Warren in … Continued
Every year around this time the name of the Syrian poet Adonis pops up in newspapers and in betting shops. Adonis (pronounced ah-doh-NEES), a pseudonym adopted by Ali Ahmad Said Esber in his teens as an attention getter, is a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year Ladbrokes, the British bookmaking … Continued
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