Author Archives: Arab America

EXCLUSIVE IMAGESNearly 27 years after it began, the First Intifada remains etched in the Palestinian pysche and collective memory. Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

Al Jazeera America is broadcasting a new Documentary on the USS Liberty, “The Day Israel Attacked America” from Oct. 30-Nov. 6 Source: thearabdailynews.com

It is a well-established principle that public universities are bound by the First Amendment. You might not know this from talking to students who are speaking out for Palestinian rights. Source: mondoweiss.net

Hollywood star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has sent out a call to Egyptian filmmakers and writers to contribute to his new short film, ‘In a City’… Source: www.cairogossip.com

The Dutch DJs on how they’re promoting Egypt’s electro chaabi scene by recreating its parties around the world. Source: thump.vice.com

Jaheda Wahbe and Melhem Zein to pay musical tribute to Wadih El Safi Source: www.albawaba.com

In 2011, Girgis returned from where he was living San Francisco to his hometown of Cairo to set up the Nile Project, aiming to use music to address the cultural and environmental challenges at the core of the conflict around the Nile basin. Source: www.virgin.com

Today, it’s time for the lesson of Ruba and Majd (not their real names), a seven year old girl and boy from al-Azzeh refugee camp. Ruba has a troubled home situation and often cries during the cello lessons. Source: www.musicianswithoutborders.org

It’s the first single off of her new album. Source: colorlines.com

It sounds like fiction: a young American takes to the road in a motorcycle journey around the Arab world — and ends up fighting alongside Libyan rebels to depose Moammar Gadhafi. Source: www.voanews.com

Like the African city of Timbuktu, the Saudi Arabian desert called “the Empty Quarter” (“Rub’ al Khali” in Arabic) was long mythologized by Westerners as… Source: www.sfweekly.com

Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt’s first female pilot. In October of 1933, Lotfia El Nadi became the first Egyptian female to receive an aviation Source: egyptianstreets.com