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Michigan’s largest city and its outskirts are home to a multitude of individuals from Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, united around the Palestinian cause. The widely-read local newspaper, …
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DiscriminationHate CrimesHate WatchPalestinePolitics
Biden Is Repeating Bush’s Post-9/11 Playbook. It’s Not Working
by Khelilby KhelilJust like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping to fuel it. But people are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy. The …
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DiscriminationPolitics
Lawmakers Call Out Major U.S. Banks For Discriminating Against Muslim Americans
by Khelilby KhelilSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) released a letter Thursday demanding answers from the heads of several leading U.S. banks about policies that have disproportionately targeted Muslim …
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Celebrate Arab-AmericansCommunityPolitics
Arab-American voter strength increases in various cities
by Khelilby KhelilChicago is home to the U.S.’s largest Palestinian community. Overall, Arab Americans make up as much as 4–5% of the city’s electorate. People’s World
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The discipline has roots in student activism in the Bay Area in the 1960s against racism, segregation, colonialism and militarism. It looks at four groups in particular: Black Americans, Latinos, …
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Celebrate Arab-AmericansCultureEntertainment
A Dallas henna salon by day, a comedy club at night. This Palestinian-American comic runs both
by Khelilby KhelilIn her salon, Marena Riyad was seated close to her customer, Kami Harris, bent over the woman’s bare arm and shoulder. Riyad, who owns the Haus of Henna, was carefully …