Arab - American Business back issues from February 2006:
TRANSITIONS
Feb 01, 2006; ... This issue marks my last as editor and publisher of Arab American Business Magazine. Our capable managing editor, Ghada Elnajjar, assumes the top post beginning with our next issue. In her, readers will find a devoted and capable editor, someone who has been a longtime activist in Arab American ...
SEN. CHUCK HAGEL ADDRESS ARAB AMERICAN REPUBLICAN GATHERING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Feb 01, 2006; ... Potential presidential hopeful criticizes Bush Administration on Iraq, Patriot Act COSTA MESA, Ca. - Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, a potential Republican Party presidential nominee, held a fundraising effort among Arab Americans in Southern California recently. The event, ...
VONICS LAUNCHES INTERNET TELEPHONE SERVICES TO MIDDLE EASTERN MARKETS
Feb 01, 2006; ... San Francisco-based firm joins crowded field of telecom companies providing service to Arab World SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - Vonics Digital, Inc., a San Francisco-based internet telephone services provider, is targeting the Arab American community with plans to launch broadband telephone ...
ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE URGES END TO MONITORING
Feb 01, 2006; ... Calls controversial NSEERS program badly conceived, poorly executed WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Arab American Institute wants the U.S. government to end its national exit-entry monitoring program. AAI, a Washington, D.C.-based organization committed to the political, empowerment of ...
U.S. HALTS ARABIC PUBLICATION MEANT TO BOOST U.S. IMAGE
Feb 01, 2006; ... Hi magazine had been aimed at winning hearts and minds of younger generation WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States has suspended publishing a lifestyle magazine aimed at improving America's image abroad among young Arabs, in a further sign of troubled U.S. public diplomacy ...
CHICAGO FOOD DISTRIBUTOR SUSPENDS BUSINESS WITH DENMARK COMPANY
Feb 01, 2006; ... Middle Eastern food importer cites offensive Prophet Muhammad cartoons as reason CICERO, Ill. - Ziyad Brothers Importing, one of the largest distributors of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food products in the United States, has suspended all business with Denmark-based Arla ...
COP ON THE BEAT
Feb 01, 2006; ... Nader Oweis' life is not what one sees on 'Cops' these days, but the UC Davis police lieutenant finds a great degree of fulfillment in his duties to serve and protect Police work has always bad a certain glamour aspect to it. Nader Oweis, a lieutenant with the UC Davis police department, ...
FOUR STEPS TO MANAGING ANYONE
Feb 01, 2006; ... Motivation and Communication to Get the Job Done Managing means getting results through people. We do this in many different settings from workplace to household. If you are alive, you have already been a manager. You've managed delivery people, repair people, pets, children, in-laws, ...
DOCUMENTING HISTORY
Feb 01, 2006; ... Author Gregory Orfalea has a new book on the history of Arab Americans, exploring the community's development and the challenges it faces in the post 9/11 word Since 9/11, Arabs and Arab Americans have been constantly in the news, yet little is really known by main-stream America about ...
ART AS A FORM OF ACTIVISM
Feb 01, 2006; ... The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival goes national to large crowds in Los Angeles. Organizers, which plan to take the show to other cities, see it as an opportunity to educate mainstream America and showcase Arab American talent. LOS ANGELES - It's a chilly weekday night in ...
THE PEROXIDE'S GONE TO HER BRAIN
Feb 01, 2006; ... Daniel Pipes: Is He Still Around? Both liberal and conservative blogs are abuzz with reports from the recent Conservative Political Action Conference - the annual political gathering that draws a reported 5,000 activists to Washington, D.C. Overshadowing appearances by Vice ...
Syria orders euro switch amid sanctions threat
Feb 01, 2006; ... SAUDI ARABIA TO DOUBLE OIL REFINING CAPACITY IN FIVE YEARS RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia plans to double its oil refining capacity to six million barrels per day (bpd) within five years, Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said recently. The OPEC kingpin's "main goal is the stability of ...
Syria orders switch to euro amid threats
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria has ordered state institutions to use the euro instead of the U.S. dollar for all transactions in case Washington intensifies sanctions on Damascus, a state-owned daily reported recently. "All the ministries and public companies must from now on adopt the euro ...
Turkey, Iraq reach accord over outstanding debt payments
Feb 01, 2006; ... ANKARA (AFP) - Iraq has signed an agreement with Turkey to pay Ankara more than a billion dollars of debt, ending a row that had led to a halt in shipments of petroleum products to the war-torn country, the Anatolia news agency reported. Turkish State minister for foreign trade, Kursad ...
MPs propose cash handouts for Kuwaitis
Feb 01, 2006; ... KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Five Kuwaiti lawmakers have proposed the creation of a fund to distribute cash handouts every year to citizens of the oil-rich state potentially worth several billion dollars in total. The fund, which would be named after late emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, ...
Rural West Bank doomed to poverty by Israeli closures: U.N.
Feb 01, 2006; ... RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank (AFP) - Poverty and unemployment in the rural Occupied West Bank are bound to increase unless Palestinians can regain access to markets cut off by Israel, a United Nations report said recently. The impact of the West Bank separation barrier and network of ...
Palestinian coffers missing $700 million
Feb 01, 2006; ... GAZA CITY (AFP) - About $700 million has been pilfered from the Palestinian Authority coffers, an official inquiry recently found. News of the gaping hole in the Palestinian treasury was revealed by attorney general Ahmed al-Meghani at the end of an internal corruption ...
Jordan buys four helicopters from Eurocopter
Feb 01, 2006; ... AMMAN (AFP) - The Jordanian air force has bought four AC 635 transport helicopters from French-German manufacturer Eurocopter, the official news agency Petra said recently. The helicopter is to be used for border controls in the country, which neighbors Iraq, for anti-terrorist ...
Israel, Arab World Engaging in Hidden Trade
Feb 01, 2006; ... CAIRO (AFP) - Staff members at a Riyadh hospital got a surprise when they looked at the fine print on the paper cups they were using. Workers in a storeroom at a Dubai hospital were similarly shocked when they took a close look at the tags on a large shipment of uniforms, towels and ...
Iraqi government accused of neglecting oil sector
Feb 01, 2006; ... BAGHDAD (AFP) - The union of Iraq's state-owned Southern Oil Company has accused the government of neglect and hindering the growth of the vital oil sector. "We have been telling repeatedly, particularly the prime minister's office, about the decline in the performance of the company due ...
Syria steps up prevention against potential bird flu
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria has stepped up preventive measures against bird flu after a strain of the virus recently killed three people in neighboring Turkey, an official has said. Preventive measures have "intensified" after the illness appeared in Turkey, health ministry official Mahmud ...
Malaysian, Saudi firms strike deals worth $800 million
Feb 01, 2006; ... KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian and Saudi Arabian companies have signed deals worth some $800 million, in unprecedented economic activity between the two Muslim countries, a business council said recently. "There is increased investment on both sides and it's never been done on a scale ...
ARAB BANKERS ASSOCIATION FOSTERS CROSS CONTINENT RELATIONSHIPS
Feb 01, 2006; ... Organization facing challenges from growing membership base, needs of community The 1970s oil boom in the Middle East fueled massive infrastructure spending in oil-producing companies and changed the way the U.S. viewed its dependence on oil. It also was a driving factor in a group of ...
ABANA Makes History with New President
Feb 01, 2006; ... The ABANA Board of Directors this year chose Laura Osman, 36, to a three-year term as president, making her the first woman and the youngest member to hold the position. Only 13% of ABANA's membership is female. Osman says she doesn't look at the role as one designed for either male or ...