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5 Tips to Perfecting Middle Eastern Restaurant Style Chicken
May 1, 2024
Pyramid Chicken. Photo: Blanche Shaheen By: Blanche Shaheen/Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: If there is one protein Middle Eastern restaurants know how to prepare is chicken, and there are several techniques you can incorporate to get the same tender and(...)
Stepping into Yemen: The Met Museum Celebrating the Rich Cultural Heritage of Yemen and the Repatriation of their Art
May 1, 2024
By: Menal Elmaliki / Arab America Contributing Writer Yemeni Dancers doing a traditional dance at the Met Museum. Photo Source: Menal Elmaliki On Sunday April 21st, the MET museum event "A Celebration of the Arts and Culture of Yemen" featured(...)
What Can Gaza Student Protests Teach Us?
May 1, 2024
Student Encampment for Palestine at Columbia University. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer Editors Note: After the writing of the article below, last night, police clad in riot gear commenced the arrest of numerous pro-Palestinian(...)
Capernaum review: Living a Zero-Sum End Game
May 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUo0048xZE Capernaum Trailer By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize| Arab America Contributing Writer Sara Aridi: Some critics may see the film as “poverty porn” Nadine Labaki: All I can tell them is: “Get real. Get out of your cage where you’re writing(...)
Re-Cap April 2024: Recognition of National Arab American Heritage Month Reaches New Heights Every Year
May 1, 2024
By: Claire Boyle / Arab America Contributing Writer In 2017, the Arab America Foundation created the grassroots initiative to commemorate the month of April as National Arab American Heritage Month, abbreviated as NAAHM, with only a few states recognizing the(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Shereen Abu Akleh
May 1, 2024
Photo Al-Jazeera By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer Here, we diverge from our regular pathbreaker series. That is because we honor Shereen Abu Akleh as an Arab American pathbreaker for a second time. Shereen was originally our twentieth(...)
A Day to Remember at MLK Library for Heritage Month!
May 1, 2024
By: Malak Hassouna / Arab America Contributing Writer On Saturday, April 27, 2024, we welcomed over 300 people to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library to celebrate National Arab American Heritage Month with a vibrant afternoon of cultural exploration!(...)
From Palestine’s Kitchen - Musakhkhan
Apr 28, 2024
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The first time that I tasted musakhkhan, the epitome of Palestinian cuisine, was in the early 1960s in the Palestinian town of Qalquila. We had travelled there to visit the Shanti family whose son Ahmad(...)
David Hamod, NUSAAC President and CEO Delivers Keynote Speech, "Arab Heritage in the USA"
Apr 26, 2024
NUSAAC President and CEO David Hamod with Dr. Amal and Warren David, Co-Founders of the Arab America Foundation and National Arab American Heritage Month On the occasion of National Arab American Heritage Month, the National U.S. Arab Chamber of Commerce(...)
White House Spins its Indefensible Veto to Palestinian Full UN Membership
Apr 24, 2024
By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer The world expresses a sigh of relief that Iran and Israel did not go all the way to start a regional war. Iranian American analyst, Trita Parsi, has captured the scene: Israel and(...)
Four Daughters Review: Revolt Against a Broken Home
Apr 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36th41-rdb8 Four Daughters' Trailer By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize| Arab America Contributing Writer Olfa: It’s a tragedy. I hate girls. I didn’t want to have daughters. Hend Sabry: What I understand, is that for you, their bodies are dangerous. Olfa: There’s(...)
Pathbreakers of Arab America—Tony Shalhoub
Apr 24, 2024
Tony Shalhoub -- Wikiphoto By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the forty-third of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among(...)4,049 Results (Page 1 of 338)