October 15th, 20220A new national poll has some disturbing insights into the health of democracy in the country and voters' outlook about unity.
The poll commissioned by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and conducted by Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies has found that ahead of the 2022 midterm election, strong majorities of...
June 28th, 20200BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun warned on Thursday of an “atmosphere of civil war” during recent unrest in Lebanon and what he described as attempts to stir up sectarian tensions as a financial crisis sweeps the country.
Aoun, a Maronite Christian, was speaking at a meeting that he said was called to protect civil peace, but...
October 4th, 20180PRINCETON N.J. — According to a national survey released Wednesday by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, just one in three Americans can pass a multiple choice test consisting of content taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test.
Only 13 percent of individuals surveyed knew when the Constitution was ratified, most of...
September 16th, 20180It’s so easy these days to despair about the future of our country. It feels like half the people I run into just want to pull the covers over their heads and ignore the news.
There’s dysfunction at the highest levels of government. Recent reports — the new book by Bob Woodward and a New York Times op-ed — reveal that top...
March 2nd, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
NEW YORK — The Lebanese movie "Yesterday Went with Yesterday", written and directed by Los Angeles based Lebanese American filmmaker Issam B. Makdissy, will make its U.S. premiere when it opens at Cinema Village on March 16.
The story revolves around a Lebanese Canadian citizen's past and...
February 2nd, 20180In the last decisive moments, Lebanon avoided the edge of a cliff and perhaps saved fragile peaceful coexistence among its people, which for the past few days has been hovering over that fine edge.
A telephone call from President Michel Aoun to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was enough to defuse a potential civil war that would have...
February 2nd, 20180Not so subtle agenda – Hollywood, Washington and Israel sprung from the same DNA.
By Farah Harb
Hollywood and Washington have been two faces on the same coin for the past century, where political messages have often been imported through Hollywood's media content.
As renowned scholar Jack Shaheen has pointed out through...
October 22nd, 20170BEIRUT ― Lebanon’s top court on Friday sentenced Habib Shartouni to death for the 1982 assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel, an event that was a turning point in Lebanon’s 15-year civil war.
Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP), admitted his part in the bombing in the 1980s and was tried...
September 22nd, 20170DEARBORN — For the last few months, all eyes have been on the city's government and how it will respond to calls for proper representation of Arab Americans, who make up about half of its population. Many also have deep roots in the community.
As the city's residents and officials argue over the fate of the statue of famous...
June 12th, 20171GENEVA — The number of suspected cholera cases in war-torn Yemen has risen to more than 100,000 since an outbreak began on April 27, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
The rapid spread of the disease through 19 of Yemen's 23 governorates highlighted a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen after two years of civil war that...
