March 16th, 20180DEARBORN — A young Syrian refugee girl had no idea when she was selling gum on the streets of Beirut, but the cryptic expression of fear and confidence on her face would become part of a visual story of struggle that aims to connect everyone with a story to tell.
Mayssa Fakih, a 17-year-old art student at Mercy High School, an...
February 2nd, 20180The real danger of seeing the world through a narrow ideological lens is that while the lens may be your own, the world being viewed through it is not yours to control.
By Dr. James J. Zogby
Vice President Pence's recent foray into Middle East politics has been nothing short of a disaster. Because he sees the world through the lens...
December 6th, 20170CAIRO/AMMAN/BEIRUT — Arabs denounced President Trump’s plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as a slap in the face but few thought their governments would do much in response.
A Palestinian man steps on a representation of an Israeli flag as other demonstrators hold crossed out posters of Trump phoned allies in...
November 17th, 20170NAZARETH—“You see them, you love them; they are human like you,” Shady Srour, writer and director of the film “Holy Air”, said about the movie’s two main characters, Adam and Lamia. “They are modern, they want to live.”
Srour is a self-described minority inside a minority. He grew up an Arab living in Nazareth.
He...
June 30th, 20170By Stephen Martin
DEARBORN — The ever-changing global perception of the United States is having an impact on the education industry.
CNN, The Hechinger Report and Inside Higher Ed have respectively reported in recent years on a decline in H1B work visas, a decline in international student applications and increased competition...
March 17th, 20170ALBUQUERQUE — Issues affecting the Middle East continued to be brought to light at the 2017 annual general meeting of Amnesty International U.S.A. members, which gathered human rights advocates from around the nation.
The plight of refugees worldwide was commemorated in the #NoBanNoWall campaign— a slogan in defiant response to...
January 29th, 20170
TEL AViV ― Israel has completed successful tests of an advanced version of its 'David's Sling' intermediate missile interceptor system that it is developing jointly with the United States, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The system is designed to shoot down rockets with ranges of 63 to 125 mile) such as those in the arsenal...
January 21st, 20170
CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian court rejected on Monday a government plan to transfer two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, in a final ruling that prompted cheers in the courtroom but could deepen tensions with the country's former financial backer, Saudi Arabia.
Egypt's government announced during a visit by the Saudi...
