Recently added articles from The Arab American News:
In ruins for 18 months, a Palestinian enclave languishes in disrepair
Mar 14, 2009; ... NAHR ALBARED REFUGEE CAMP, LEBANON - Rebuilding Gaza isn't the only effort under way to improve the Palestinians' plight. Eighteen months after it was wrecked in fighting between the Lebanese Army and Islamist militants, this impoverished refugee camp is just beginning to be put back together ...
Obama pick quits over Israel lobby
Mar 14, 2009; ... "The aim of this lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government ...
Iraq: Pulling out or digging in?
Mar 14, 2009; ... A lot of Americans who voted for candidate Barack Obama because of his promises to end George Bush's war in Iraq are feeling dismayed, or even betrayed. During the election campaign, Obama vowed to swiftly bring U.S. troops home from Iraq. He denounced the invasion and occupation of Iraq ...
Profiling still plagues Muslim communities
Mar 14, 2009; ... NEW YORK - On the heels of a recent poll that found that American Muslims experience emotional turbulence due to the stereotypes and suspicion of Islam since the Sep. 1 1 , 2001 terforist attacks, two major Muslim-American organizations issued scathing indictments of the tactics of the Federal ...
Islamist governments not the enemy, say Mideast experts
Mar 14, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Scores of Middle East and democracy experts released an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday asking him to focus more of his foreign policy efforts at making reforms in the region, including boosting human rights. Signed by over 120 academics, scholars, experts ...
Mini-summit pledges Arab unity
Mar 14, 2009; ... The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt and Kuwait have pledged to work together to advance the causes of their region. At the end of a mini-summit in the Saudi capital, the Arab leaders said: "The leaders consider that their meeting marks the start of a new period in their relations ...
Hot air brings no winds of change
Mar 14, 2009; ... JERUSALEM - Last November, on the day marking the assassination of Israel's peace-making leader Yitzhak Rabin, the now outgoing' Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israelis something which, for decades, not even Rabin had dared say we must end the occupation of the, Palestinian territories and ...
Iraq shoe thrower sentenced to three years in jail
Mar 14, 2009; ... BAGHDAD - An Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush was convicted of attempting to assault a foreign leader on Thursday and jailed for three years, dismaying many Iraqis who regard him as a hero. Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, ...
Morocco severs relations with Iran
Mar 14, 2009; ... Morocco has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the Iranian diplomatic mission in Rabat of seeking to spread Shi'a Islam in the predominantly Sunm Muslim kingdom. A statement from Morocco's foreign ministry Friday accused the Iranian embassy of "intolerable interference in ...
Al-Manar slams Germany over ban
Mar 14, 2009; ... Germany's Interior Ministry said that the country has banned the HizbuUah-affiliated al-Manar satellite television network on grounds that it violates the country's constitution. Interior Ministry spokesman Markus Beyer said al-Manar television programming was forbidden under Article 9 ...
Report: Iraqi Kurds armed in secret
Mar 14, 2009; ... Iraqi Kurdistan has received arm supplies from Bulgaria without informing the central government in Baghdad, U.S. officials say. Three U.S. officials said that the local government of northern Iraq had received three planeloads of small arms and ammunition from Bulgaria, The Washington ...
Officials: Iran does not have key nuclear material
Mar 14, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Iran does not yet have any highly enriched uranium, the fuel needed to make a nuclear warhead, two top U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday, disputing a claim by arflsraeli official. U.S. National inteiligence director Dennis Blair and Defense Intelligence ...
U.S. sanctions 11 firms tied to Iran bank
Mar 14, 2009; ... The Obama administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 11 companies tied to an Iranian bank that the United States and others say is helping to fund Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The penalties announced by the Treasury bar any transactions between the firms, which are ...
Kuwait plunges further in political turmoil
Mar 14, 2009; ... KUWAIT CITY - The Gulf state of Kuwait plunged further into political turmoil on Monday after a hardline Islamist lawmaker submitted a request to quiz the prime minister, the third such move in a week. Islamist lawmaker Mohammad Hayef accuses Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad ...
Arab American appointed to DHS
Mar 14, 2009; ... U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on March 5 the appointment of Massachusetts- Arab American Juliette Kayyem to serve as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Programs. Kayyem became the first Arab American to serve as a homeland ...
The United Nations is a useless, toothless organization
Mar 14, 2009; ... I used to think the U.N., both in principle and in practice, was the closest thing we'd have to a world government, coming together to tackle the challenges faced by all humanity. Now I feel that the U.N. is an utterly useless organization when it comes -to protecting human rights and enforcing ...
Israeli policy gives Jews a bad name
Mar 14, 2009; ... Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn't concern Israel's right to exist, a phony argument still maintained by hard line Zionists. Israel exists, ...
Creative expression in the Arab World
Mar 14, 2009; ... Arabesque, is a current, very popular Kennedy Center showcase of theater and dance, sounds and tastes from over 20 Arab countries. With events taking place over the course of weeks, it is widely seen as a landmark for the representation of Arab culture in the United States. The festival ...
One more farcical tour of the Middle East
Mar 14, 2009; ... It was almost dreamlike, watching Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make her visit to Israel, one that can be called the first of many trips pretending to encourage peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. It's a dream I've had several times over, one needs only to simply fill in the ...
Finkelstein to keynote ASU banquet
Mar 14, 2009; ... DEARBORN - An energetic group of college students hopes to add an extra spark to their efforts as Arab American youth activists when they bring Norman Finkelstein - a well-known scholar on Israeli-Palestinian conflict who causes a stir every time he speaks in the Detroit area - to keynote their ...