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Article: Hussein Ibish: the Arab American activist and analyst gives his take on U.S. policy toward Arab Americans and the Middle East.(Q & A)(Interview)
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- March 1, 2007
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As the executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership and Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, you deal with both the domestic and foreign policy concerns of a very diverse community. Give us a picture of the makeup of the Arab-American community. The emphasis for many is on their country of national origin rather than on a broader Arab-American identity.
There are religious and ethnic minorities, who in many cases are marginalized, disenfranchised and involved in conflicts in the Arab world that the Arab identity has not been broad enough to include in the last 60 years.
There are also class ...