Recently added articles from The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:
A Voice for the Voiceless: On Winning the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
Aug 01, 2008; Omer, Mohammed ... RAFAH, A refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, is my hometown-the only home I've known for 24 years, along with my six brothers, a sister, parents and extended family. Prior to 1948 my family lived in the village of Yebna, near Tel Aviv. During that year, along with 750,000 others, my ...
Arab Cultural and Community Center Honors Alice Nashashibi on Her 80th Birthday
Aug 01, 2008; Pasquini, Elaine ... FAMILY, FRIENDS and community leaders gathered at San Francisco's Medjool restaurant April 20 to honor Alice Nashashibi on her 80th birthday. The celebration to pay tribute to the former president of the Arab Cultural and Community Center was the centerpiece of the ACCC's Spring Awards Luncheon ....
A Declaration of U.S. Independence From Israel
Aug 01, 2008; Hedges, Chris ... ISRAEL, WITHOUT the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 war when Egypt, trained and backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the Suez Canal and the Syrians poured in over the Golan Heights. Huge American military transport ...
Billboard and Black Balloons
Aug 01, 2008; Hanley, Delinda C ... THE COALITION for Justice and Accountability, a member group of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, put together a Nakba commemoration on June 1, 2008, only yards away from "Israel@60: A Capital Celebration" on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Partygoers celebrating Israel's ...
Al-Nakba Commemoration on the National Mall
Aug 01, 2008; Hanley, Delinda C ... PALESTINIAN AMERICANS and their friends gathered on the National Mall near the reflecting pool in view of the U.S. Capitol on May 17 for an al-Nakba commemoration to mark the ongoing Palestinian "catastrophe." Some women proudly wore heirloom Palestinian dresses, passed down from mother to ...
"AmericanEast" Comes to DC
Aug 01, 2008; Najjab, Jamal ... THE FILM "AmericanEast" was screened as part of FilmFest DC, the Washington, DC International Film Festival, on April 26 to a packed Regal Gallery Place Theater. The film deals with the trials and tribulations faced by Arabs and Arab Americans living in the post-9/11 United States. Director ...
Jordanian Embassy Holds Screening for Award-Winning Film
Aug 01, 2008; Walsh, Josh ... THE JORDANIAN Embassy in Washington, DC presented a May 20 screening of "Captain Abu Raed," followed by a session with the film's writer/director and executive producer. The first Jordanian feature-length film to be exported to world cinemas, "Captain Abu Raed" already has received critical ...
Iran on the Menu and in the Crosshair
Aug 01, 2008; Najjab, Jamal ... BUSINESSMAN AND peace activist Andy Shallal and his Iranian-born wife, Marjan, invited friends to their Washington, DC home on April 30 for dinner and to hear Carah Ong, the Iran policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, discuss her recent trip to Iran. "For two ...
"U.S. and Iran: It's Time to Talk!"
Aug 01, 2008; Hamedani, Nina ... USING "RED HOTLINE phones," individuals in Washington, DC had the opportunity to talk with individuals in Iran on June 10. The Capitol Hill event was made possible by the Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran, Enough Fear, various partner organizations, conscientious citizens, Iraq ...
House Passes Significant Advancement in U.S.-Israel Military Relationship
Aug 01, 2008; McArthur, Shirl ... ON MAY 15 the House passed, under suspension of the rules (a procedure designed to be used for routine, administrative, or non-controversial measures), H.R. 5916. Introduced on April 29 with four co-sponsors by House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) chair Howard Berman (D-CA), the nominal ...
Israeli Police Attack Nakba 60 Demonstration at West Bank Site of Saffuriyya Village
Aug 01, 2008; Mahajna, Maram ... Editor's Note: Born in New York, at age 7 Maram Mahajna and her parents returned to their homeland, and she continued her schooling in an American high school program in Nazareth. On Nakba Day this year, 18-year-old Maram and a high school classmate joined thousands of Palestinians to ...
Is Undermining Iran an Arab or European Interest?
Aug 01, 2008; Seale, Patrick ... THE UNITED States and Israel are seeking to damage Iran's economy in order to force it to give up enriching uranium, which both see as a challenge to their regional hegemony. Israel-itself a major nuclear power-claims that Iran's nuclear program poses an "existential threat" to it, which must at ...
Ilan Pappe Blames West's "Conspiracy of Silence" Condoning Israel's Ethnic Cleansing
Aug 01, 2008; Twair, Pat; Twair, Samir ... PROFESSOR Ilan Pappé of Exeter University gave three separate lectures in three days-May 14, 15 and 16-at the University of California at Irvine, University of California at Los Angeles and the al-Awda convention. At UCLA on May 15, the Oxford University-educated Israeli historian noted that, on ...
Israel Has Made the U.S., Its "Best Friend in the Middle East," Irrelevant
Aug 01, 2008; Hanley, Delinda C ... THROUGHOUT its history Israel has regarded all U.N. resolutions critical of the Jewish state as irrelevant. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon frequently called Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat irrelevant. Israel ignored the Saudi peace initiative originally floated in 2002 and unanimously approved by ...
Israel's "American Problem": The Jewish Groups Which Stand in the Way of Peace
Aug 01, 2008; Brownfeld, Allan C ... Those American Jewish organizations which frequently proclaim themselves "friends" of Israel may, in reality, constitute a significant roadblock on the path to any meaningful peace settlement. Indeed, in an article in the May 18, 2008 New York Times, Jeffrey Goldberg, national ...
CAIR-LA Honors Washington Report Writers Samir and Pat Twair
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WASHINGTON REPORT writers Samir and Pat Twair were presented with "Activist of the Year" awards by the Greater Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at its fourth annual Entertainment Night of Civil Rights on June 7 in the Heritage Forum, Anaheim. CAIR-LA ...
Language: A Tool of Oppression and Liberation
Aug 01, 2008; Jabr, Samah ... ON MAY 15 of this year, the day Palestinians commemorated the 60th anniversary of their forceful expulsion from their homes, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Palestinians will be able to celebrate their independence day the day the word "Nakba," the word referring to their ...
John McCain's Arab-American Problem
Aug 01, 2008; Cole, Juan ... NOT LONG AGO, the John McCain campaign dropped a prominent Arab-American businessman from its Michigan state finance committee because of allegations that the man was an "agent" of Hezbollah. The charges, made by a right-wing blogger, were unsubstantiated, but fears of being associated with Arab ...
Silver Adornment from Bilad al-Sham
Aug 01, 2008; Hanley, Delinda C ... A SPECTACULAR array of hand-crafted silver jewelry and intricately embroidered costumes are on display until Sept. 12, 2008 at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in Washington, DC. Ellen Benson and Lynn Springer of Washington, DC's Bead Museum organized the exhibit using treasures largely drawn from the ...
Letters to the Editor
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Rep. Doris Matsui's (D-CA) Anti-Palestinian Voting Record I READ with interest the article in the July 2008 issue of the Washington Report (p. 46) by Pat and Samir Twair which blended the narrative of the U.S. government's abuse of Japanese Americans in the early 1940s with that of ...