At first glance, it may have seemed that we Arabs were not that present in the news this week. Syria was mostly out of the headlines, the Palestinians and Israelis are in their secret cove somewhere negotiating, and the rest of the Arab world was relatively quiet. But if you watch the news the way […]
Month: September 2013
Anthony Bourdain, Will You Marry Me?
Something amazing happened on CNN last night. Palestinians were portrayed as human beings. In his show “Parts Unknown,” Anthony Bourdain travels to exotic and controversial locales to examine the intersection of food, politics, and everyday life. Last night, he visited Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. He was immediately mesmerized by Palestine, which is a […]
20 Years Since Oslo
It’s been 20 years since Oslo. We Palestinians might not be good at everything, but we are strangely talented when it comes to knowing how long it has been since certain things happened. It’s been 65 years since the catastrophic events of 1948. Our land was ethnically cleansed. 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed. 750,000 registered […]
President Obama, Please Don’t Do It
Dear President Obama, My views about the current situation in Syria are borne out of my experience and existence as an Arab-American. I am not just an Arab, nor just an American. I am both, at the same time, all the time. The lands of my heritage reside at the headlines of American news almost […]