Arab Americans

We’re starting off the year with a new podcast, and this time with Marwan Kamel, lead singer of the punk Middle Eastern band “Al Thawra.” I could try my luck writing my own introduction of this awesome band, but I wouldn’t be able to top my friend Daniela who wrote about them on Mideast Youth [...]

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All Mustafa an Egyptian American Muslim widower ever wanted to do was live the “American Dream.”
And, maybe pay off some family debts, turn his small New Jersey falafel shop into a fancy restaurant, raise his two motherless children as good Muslims and Americans, insure his sister married in [...]

This is an interview with an Arab American Muslim Palestinian Peace Activist living in Florida. She is explaining the war in Gaza and how complicated the situation is now in the Middle East. She is the author of “Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts”. I read this book and I recommend it to all who [...]

Despite the challenges of an American system that discourages their involvement, Arab Americans are involved in the political elections this week on all levels, as candidates, as voters and as controversies.
Various sources estimate that there are between 3.5 and 4.5 million Arabs in America, with Christians a slight majority over Muslims. There are 7.5 million [...]

On June 8, 1967, the Israeli military was in the midst of a war with its Arab neighbors. At the time, they were engaged in the battle and did not fully grasp how easily the Arab nation’s armies had collapsed — they were never a real threat to Israel. Israel wanted the United States — [...]

Judge in Halliburton contract corruption trial clashes with defense
By Ray Hanania
(DATELINE Peoria, Il, Sept. 30, 2008) — The judge in the controversial trial of Jeff Mazon, a former Halliburton procurement officer accused of intentionally inflating a contract payment in exchange for a bribe, acknowledged his rulings have caused “some tensions.”
In the second day [...]

Arab American voters face the same challenges they always face in elections: candidates who climb all over themselves to show how pro-Israel they are. There’s nothing wrong with being pro-Israel, but oftentimes the candidates embrace the most extremist views supporting Israel that reject principle and fairness needed to resolve the Middle East conflict peacefully.
It comes [...]

Sarah Palin is clearly a powerful speaker, although in all honesty as I watched her read without any slipups her moving conservative perspective on the world, I kept thinking it was a monologue on Saturday Night Live and Palin was “news roaster” Tina Fey.
Oh for the old days of entertainment, which is what American [...]

The candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama is a remarkable one by all accounts, from a historical perspective it is an unprecedented feat that an African American stands for the highest office in America and a candidate who was not born into wealth or political family.
For Arab American and Muslim voters, however, an Obama-Biden ticket seems [...]

Arab American journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous, a producer at Democracy Now, was arrested outside the GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota along with host Amy Goodman and Nicole Salazar. They were covering a street protest.
The National Arab American Journalists Association, founded in 1999 and with 275 members nationwide, has issued a formal protest demanding the [...]