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- RECAP: CONNECT Arab America Empowerment Summit 2025 Welcomes Over 428 Guests from 21 States on October 24-25, Building Arab American Unity and Strength
The 2025 Arab America Empowerment Summit, held this past weekend at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe in New Jersey, brought together hundreds of Arab Americans from across the country and abroad for a powerful weekend of dialogue, culture, and community. The two-day event, organized by the Arab America Foundation, reflected… Read more » - Pathbreakers of Arab America—Omar Mwannes Yaghi
This is the ninety-seventh in Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series features personalities from various fields, including entertainment, business, sports, science, the arts, academia, journalism, and politics. Our ninety-seventh pathbreaker is Omar Yaghi, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry and the first Palestinian… Read more » - When Japan Visited Fairuz
By Ralph Hage/Arab America Contributing Writer صباح ومسا شي ما بْيِنْتَسَى ترَكْت الحبّ وأخدْتْ الأسى شو بَدّي دُور؟ لَشو عم دُور؟ على غيرو في ناس كتيرْ لكن بيصيرْ ما في غيرو حبيبي كان هَنِي وسِهْيانْ ما في غيرو حِمِلني سنين مانُن هَيْنِين كًتِّر خَيْرو حبيبي منيحْ لَشو التجريحْ؟ تِعِب منّي… Read more » - The Great Controversy of Being Arab: Unity in Diversity
By: Laila Mamdouh / Arab America Contributing Writer Arab nationalism began as a dream of belonging after years of colonial division. In the early twentieth century, Arab intellectuals and revolutionaries worked to reclaim self-determination. The Nahḍa (Arab renaissance) inspired an ideology that viewed the Arab world as a single cultural… Read more » - Is the Trump Administration’s Rift with Netanyahu Real?
By Jake Harris / Arab America Contributing Writer The Gaza Ceasefire is quite evidently hanging on by a thread. Accusations of breaches have been rampant. The Israeli government accused Hamas of breaching the ceasefire in Rafah. Hamas have responded reiterating that Israel controls Rafah and that they are unaware of… Read more » - Saudi Arabia’s Comedy Festival Sparks Cheers and Criticism
By: Emma Campbell / Arab America Contributing Writer The Riyadh Comedy Festival spanned from September 26 to October 9, 2025. It brought major names, like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, and others, to perform in Saudi Arabia. The event was organized under Vision 2030. The plan was… Read more » - The Hidden Pioneers of the Medieval Arab World
By: Fayzeh Abou Ardat / Arab America Contributing Writer The Middle Ages have frequently been depicted throughout history as a period when women were restricted to household duties. However, women actively participated in intellectual, cultural, and political life in the medieval Arab world between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. Many… Read more » - Save the Ceasefire. Free Marwan Barghouti
Ghassan Rubeiz is the former Middle East Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Earlier, he taught psychology and social work in his country of birth, Lebanon, and later in the United States, where he currently lives. He has contributed to political commentary for the past twenty years and has delivered… Read more » - The Ottoman Empire’s Legacy in Today’s Middle EastFlag of the Ottoman Empire. Photo Credit: © Wikimedia Commons, 2025 via Wikimedia Commons – CC BY 4.0 By: Amir Kobeissi / Arab America Contributing Writer The Ottoman Empire, which was once one of the strongest forces this world has ever seen, continues to play a key role in the… Read more »
- Beans and Bread
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Broad beans are a favoured food in both Egypt and the Sudan. From the days of the Pharaohs until our times broad beans have been the food of the masses in these countries. Serves 4 to 6 1 cup dried broad beans, soaked overnight… Read more »
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