Washington - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is currently accepting applications for the 2007 Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship. Dr. Shaheen is the world's foremost authority on media images of Arabs and the author of "Reel Bad Arabs," "Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture,"...
April 4th, 20070Professor Raji Rammuny has been teaching Arabic for nearly 50 years, and now, at 74, he is seeing what he calls the "Golden Age of Arabic and Islamic studies."
As coordinator of the Arabic program at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan, Rammuny is watching his programs expand and his class rosters...
April 4th, 20070
Ed Deeb goes to where there's trouble, and fixes things. For decades Deeb has brought together groups in conflict, whether unions and businesses, businesses and government entities, business-owners and residents, or clashing ethnic communities.
"I'm a peacemaker. I make peace… The only way to make peace is to talk," said...
April 4th, 20070
The Syrian ambassador to the United States spoke in his usual candid style to attendees at a fundraising dinner for an active local student group in Dearborn on Friday, March 23. Ambassador Imad Moustapha was asked to keynote the second annual dinner of the Arab Student Union at University of Michigan-Dearborn because students...
April 4th, 20070TEHRAN (IPS) — Whether or not the 15 British Royal Marines in Iranian custody actually trespassed into the country's territorial waters, the incident has provided Tehran with an opportunity to build up an image of a peaceful, non-aggressive nation set upon by Western predators.
''Tensions between Iran and the West are running quite...
April 4th, 20070Last week, a familiar Washington ritual took place: Leading American politicians from both parties lined up at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to vie with each other over who could pledge the most undying fealty to Israel. As usual, much of Congress showed up — half of the members of the U.S....
April 4th, 20070According to the U.S. and Israeli foreign ministers, the Arab peace initiative is a non-binding Arab position for which the Arabs deserve a pat on the back and a friendly nudge to modify it. The very quality of eliciting such encouragement is what keeps the initiative from being an initiative.
Dr. Azmi BisharaEvidently, the...
April 4th, 20070
WASHINGTON (IPS) — A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described "pro-Israel" groups, according to an IPS investigation.
Abbreviated versions and segments of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West"...
April 4th, 20070
WASHINGTON (IPS) — With U.S. President George W. Bush reiterating his threat to veto legislation that makes funding for the Iraq war conditional on a deadline for withdrawing at least some U.S. troops, Washington moved rapidly this week toward a major confrontation between the White House and Democrats in Congress.
The latter won...
April 3rd, 20070
General shaking hands with Imad HamadDearborn — A senior U.S. military official reached out to the Arab American community on Monday, March 26, with a visit to Dearborn and a luncheon meeting with the editorial board of The Arab American News. Guests at the meeting from the community represented a variety of ethnic and religious...
March 17th, 20070Comedian Dean Obeidallah has only been an Arab for five years, but he's pretty good at it.
"I went to bed on September 10 (2001) a white guy, and I woke up on September 11 an Arab," said Obeidallah, of New York, who's performed around the country and on Comedy Central as part of the Axis of Evil Comedy tour.
New York...
January 1st, 20000Without a doubt, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq will be remembered as shameful and devastating events in our nation’s history. One would have hoped that the worldwide criticism of the U.S. for entering these wars would prevent the same mistakes from happening again. However, that is clearly not the case, as the U.S. government...
Without a doubt, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq will be remembered as shameful and devastating events in our nation’s history. One would have hoped that the worldwide criticism of the U.S. for entering these wars would prevent the same mistakes from happening again. However, that is clearly not the case, as the U.S. government...
