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 Comprehensive Guide to New Immigrants in Arabic (adc.org): December 19, 2007. Today the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) welcomed the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) decision to publish hard copies of its comprehensive guide to new immigrants in Arabic. Thirty thousand copies of the guide, entitled, “Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants” were published.  Read full story 

Study Finds Muslim Americans Share Mainstream Views (Ascribe Newswire): Muslim Americans are highly involved in the political process, relatively affluent and educated, and resemble the average American in terms of party affiliation, education and family income, according to research by Jen'nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology at UC Irvine. Read full story 

Jewish teens pleaded guilty to a hate-attack in NY (NY Post) Four Orthodox Jewish teens pleaded guilty yesterday to a hate-fueled attack on a Pakistani man in Brooklyn, but escaped with no-jail sentences because of their ages. David Brach, 17, and Yitzi Horowitz, 16, copped to first-degree assault for the Oct. 29, 2006, attack on 24-year-old Shahid Amber. Yossi Friedman, 18, and Benjamin Wasserman, 17, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree assault as a hate crime.  Read full story 

In Memorial to Aziz Shihab, a great journalist (arab writers) Aziz Shihab died on October 22, 2007. His death was noted in his local paper in Dallas, Texas. But not too many people really took notice. And that is a shame. Many people of my generation were aware of his long history of writing and journalism. Given how dysfunctional the Arab American network of communications is in this country, I just learned about it, too. So little published about such a great man. He deserves so much more.  Read full story

 

Fragmentation & Unity: The Art of Sari Khoury (arab american museum) More than two dozen abstract works, including an unseen final painting, by the internationally acclaimed artist and educator who left Jerusalem at age 17 and forged a life in the American Midwest.  Read full story

Arab-Americans: History, population, facts, etc: (Wikipedia) Arab Americans are Americans of Arab ancestry and constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from twenty-two Arab countries, stretching from Morocco in the west to Oman in the south east to Iraq in the north.  Read full story

SHERIF HEDAYAT is a widely acclaimed standup comedian and satirist whose topics include family, education, religion, careers, dating, television, stereotypes, racism and growing up in the Middle East. With a B.A. in Mass Communications/Public Speaking from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, Sherif taps his experiences in America and the Middle East to bridge the cultural gap in a way everyone can understand. View his complete Bio?


Video message by Barack Obama to Arab Americans (aaiusa.org) Why James Zoby, president of the Arab American Institute, decided to support Barack Obama and be part of his national election campaign???  Watch this Video 

 Help! A Cease Fire!: (MEO)  The Israeli strategic aim in Gaza is not to put an end to the Qassams. It would still be the same if not a single Qassam fell on Israel. The real aim is to break the Palestinians, which means breaking Hamas, says Uri Avnery.  Read full story

Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew UN Mandate (truthout) On Tuesday, the Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pushed a resolution through the U.N. Security Council extending the mandate that provides legal cover for foreign troops to operate in Iraq for another year. The move violated both the Iraqi constitution and a law passed earlier this year by the Iraqi parliament - the only body directly elected by all those purple-finger-waving Iraqis in 2005 - and it defied the will of around 80 percent of the Iraqi population. Read full story

 Simple truths worth remembering at Adha and Christmas (Dailystar) It is always ironic at the moment of major Abrahamic holy days to juxtapose the resonance of their moral messages with the hard realities that define much of this region from whence these faiths originated. Last week during the Eid al-Adha celebrations Muslims recalled and celebrated the strong faith of Abraham and the human capacity to give up what is most dear to us, while this Christmas week Christians primarily remember the birth and teachings of Jesus Christ.  Read full story

 What Will Israel Do ? (Newsweek)  Ehud Olmert, like George W. Bush, is trying hard to make it seem that nothing has changed, and that the international diplomatic coalition against Iran is still intact. "The state of Israel is not the main flag-bearer against the quirks of the regime in Tehran," the Israeli prime minister declared testily last week, after officials in his own government seemed to suggest that Israel had been left on its own by Washington.  Read full story

Bethlehem's struggles continue (Aljazeera) A normally empty Manger Square was filled beyond capacity on Christmas day as thousands of Palestinians, dignitaries and foreigners descended on the little town of Bethlehem to welcome Michel Sabah the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.  Read full story

Events
Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour, Illinois, March 22: HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR, IL MARCH 22: Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour performance Temple Bnai Yehuda, Homewood, Illinois. Afternoon workshop on the power of humor followed by an evening performance. 1424 183rd Street - Homewood IL 60430708 - 799 - 4110. office@bybs.org.

New Year's Eve celebration, Friends of Birzeit University, VA:  
McLEAN VA DEC 31: New Year's Eve celebration with the Friends of Birzeit University, Tysons Galleria, 2001 International Drive. 8 PM. $125 per person. Email Yusif Farsakh at ysfarsakh1@verizon.net or call 703-528-2623 for information.
703-528-2623

 A conversation with Dr. Kamal Khalaf Al-Tawil: Arab American writer and medical doctor, about "Arabs in America and America in the Arab World" (in Arabic). WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 (8:00 p.m.) Contact alhewar@alhewar.com 

Yemeni Film Night, January 24, Dearborn: DEARBORN Jan 24: Yemeni Film Night. Where else in town can you see two rare films on one night for just $3? A special screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 24 at the AANM features an award-winning short film by the first female director out of Yemen, Khadija Al-Salami; and the first-ever feature to be filmed in Yemen, made by director Bader Ben Hirsi. Both films are in Arabic and English with English subtitles, making them accessible to all viewers. visit http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/Yemeni-Film-Night.id.342.htm to read more about the films – Al-Salami's Stranger in Her Own City and Ben Hirsi's New Day in Old Sana’a.