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Pro-Palestinian group criticizes TV series over Jerusalem scenes

Mar 9, 2015

The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a group that objects to American support for Israel, is criticizing USA Network over its(...)

Paris university shuts down Israeli apartheid event featuring Max Blumenthal

Mar 9, 2015

he following news statements about an event set for tomorrow night in Paris at a university founded in 1969 as(...)

Regina King on Playing a Devout Muslim in ABC’s ‘American Crime’

Mar 9, 2015

*Settling into the vacated “How to Get Away With Murder” time slot on Thursdays is ABC’s new drama “American Crime,”(...)

Salah The Entertainer wins Arabs Got Talent

Mar 9, 2015

The biggest moments of any Arabs Got Talent episode always come with tears – and the Saturday night season finale(...)

The stigma of being Muslim in America

Mar 8, 2015

By Ussama MakdisiThe terrible murders in North Carolina of three young Americans—“Muslims” is how they are ubiquitously represented—are not simply(...)

What Was Missing From Coverage of Netanyahu's Speech

Mar 8, 2015

Reading the lead stories on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress about Iran in five prominent US papers–the(...)

Can Comedy Help Change America's Misperception of Islam?

Mar 8, 2015

Maz Jobrani caught the acting bug playing Li'l Abner in a junior high school play. Eddie Murphy made him fall(...)

Winds of War in Gaza

Mar 8, 2015

IT is winter in Gaza, in every wretched sense of the word. Six months after the latest war, the world(...)

Can a good Muslim be a good Girl Scout?

Mar 8, 2015

Seeing someone eating Girl Scout cookies makes me happy. Seeing Girl Scouts selling them makes me even happier.I was a(...)

Battle for water won by entrepeneur of first Palestinian planned city

Mar 8, 2015

A political battle to install a water pipeline for the first planned Palestinian city of Rawabi is now over, with(...)

Balancing Islam and Middle School in Queens

Mar 8, 2015

Somewhere between stepping off the school bus and climbing into the go-kart, Sandra Ibrahim, 14, took off her pink hijab.(...)

America’s allies in the Middle East create as many problems as they solve

Mar 8, 2015

In a recent two-part post, Martin Indyk argued that the United States has only two highly imperfect options for dealing(...)