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According to statistics listed on the website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 850,000 refugees arrived in Greece by sea in 2015. In January 2016, [...]

HOW MUCH IS reality and how much my expectations is difficult to say, but the atmosphere in Izmir following the failed July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan [...]

ON A DAY in late January I heard that a young Syrian woman I knew slightly at Eleonas Refugee Camp in Athens, Greece, had gone missing. She and her family [...]

OPENING PLENARY SESSION The student-led Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) to divest from Israel in support of Palestinian rights convened its fourth annual conference at Duke University in North Carolina on [...]

The think tank Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) held a June 22 panel discussion in Washington, DC to consider the prospects for Iraq following the June 'transition' of power from [...]

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) hosted a gala fund-raiser May 8 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA, for its ongoing efforts to provide medical care to [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people from all 50 states and several foreign countries converged on Washington, DC Oct. 26. Assembling at the Vietnam War Memorial, they had come to make [...]

I WAS HAVING DINNER upstairs in Sindibad Restaurant in Basmane, the old part of the Turkish city of Izmir. A man at the only other occupied table was talking loudly, [...]

Between Aug. 16 and 20, 2014, five and a half weeks into Israel's brutal air, land and sea assault on the Gaza Strip, BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and social [...]

A significant event occurred on the streets of Washington, DC on Sept. 29--just one year and one day after Ariel Sharon, now Israel's prime minister, provoked the al-Aqsa intifada by [...]

As a Palestinian, as a former U.N. journalist, as a sociology professor at New York University, and as a woman, Rabib Abdulhadi spoke to an audience of about 25 at [...]

As former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepared to speak to the 'Advent/MicroEdge Conference' on philanthropy, protesters gathered outside his hotel in Washington, DC on Sept. 6 to call attention [...]

The Arab American Institute hosted its 15th candidates' night in northern Virginia on Sept. 30. The more-than-capacity audience crowded into the room, first to stand in allegiance with their country [...]

THE MUSLIM STUDENT NETWORK wrapped up another summer with a July 28 banquet at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC. A group of some 25 excited interns and [...]

A group of Palestinians and other Arab, American, and Jewish supporters of Palestinian rights rallied June 26 to call attention to the plight of Palestinians and protest U.S. contributions to [...]

Several people presented the Palestinian perspective on U.S.-Arab relations at a panel discussion at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination annual convention. Attorney Raef Zreik described the dilemma the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces [...]

At the opening dinner of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's 18th annual meeting, ADC chapters from around the country reported on their activities. Among the highlights: Raleigh, NC raised $35,000 for [...]

Arab-American, former Green Party presidential candidate, and long-time consumer activist Ralph Nader addressed a large audience at the Friday, June 9 dinner of the 18th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, on [...]

Several hundred Palestinians and their supporters, including a large contingent of Jews against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, assembled for a march down Connecticut Avenue to the White House on [...]

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist (1879-1924) By Huda Shaarawi, Translated and Introduced by Margot Badran, The Feminist Press, 1987, 158 pp. List: $13.95; AET $12.50. A Border [...]

The twin topics of Israeli actions in Palestine and what future might be possible for both peoples were the subjects of an April symposium at the Center for Policy Analysis [...]

Members of the American Friends service Committee Rick McCutcheon and Tamara Fleming addressed the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP) concerning their relief work in Iraq. Marking the date, [...]

Reverend Mitri Raheb, pastor of the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem and general director of Bethlehem's International Center, prefaced his remarks at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine on [...]

A group of 200 to 300 demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on the evening of Wednesday, May 23 to protest Israel's ongoing occupation of and escalated [...]

The American Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ) hosted a panel on the future prospects of a Jerusalem shared by both Palestine and Israel, April 5 at the Rayburn House Office Building [...]

Yom al-Ard, or Land Day, is a Palestinian national holiday in commemoration of a general strike by Palestinian citizens of Israel on March 30th, 1976, to protest Israel's planned confiscation [...]

In Washington, DC on March 19, Palestinian protesters were joined by a large and diverse group angry that the U.S. would accord full head-of-state treatment to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel [...]

Thousands of people gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in New York City for a rally on April 7 to call for the Palestinians' right to return to their [...]

Murhaf Jouejati, a resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (MEI), spoke to a full house at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Feb. 2 on conditions in Syria [...]

At a Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP) briefing on March 7, Robert Malley, former special assistant to the president for Arab-Israeli affairs and director for Near East and [...]

Professor Stephen Zunes, chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at San Francisco University, addressed an audience at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine regarding U.S. aid to [...]

On Feb. 13, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC hosted a panel discussion on 'Women Shaping Globalization: A New Feminism for the 21st Century.' [...]

Since 1995, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) have been a presence in Hebron. Their mission is to be a third-party witness and take part in nonviolent direct action in an attempt [...]

In a special session at its annual meeting on Aug. 12, the American Sociological Association held a panel discussion on various aspects of being Muslim women in American society. Organized [...]

On Dec. 7, the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, in conjunction with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination League, hosted former United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Hans von Sponeck, who presented an update [...]

Farouk Kaddoumi, Palestinian foreign minister and head of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), spoke on moving toward a just peace in Palestine at a Dec. 5 [...]

The San Francisco International Poetry Festival--Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman's contribution to the active San Francisco arts scene--took place from July 26-29 in various venues around the city. Dozens of poets [...]

Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) Middle East Division, discussed 'Israel and Palestine: The 2006 Human Rights Watch Report' at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC on [...]

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies held its annual symposium, this year on 'The Politics of Education in the Arab World: Past Legacies, Current Challenges,' at Georgetown University in Washington, [...]

Sabeel's closing plenary featured speakers who outlined their own roles in 'The Struggle is One: Building a Nonviolent Peace Movement.' Israeli refusenik Rami Kaplan described the crisis of conscience that [...]

The Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) held its annual conference regarding divestment from Israel at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on Feb. 17-19, 2006. The opening plenary featured Noura Erakat of [...]

In an Oct. 20 appearance at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Israeli and Palestinian activists Jonathan Pollack and Ayed Morrar discussed their nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation. The [...]

The third annual conference of Al Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, took place April 15 to 17, 2005 at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, CA. Hundreds of [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosted its annual conference May 13 to 15 at the Sheraton Premiere in Tysons Corner, VA. Entitled 'Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies,' the [...]

One day an unusual postcard appeared in the mail. It was a glossy full-color ad for a Monopoly©-style game called 'Patriot Act: The Home Version.' Players roll the dice to [...]

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) hosted a two-day symposium March 31 and April 1 in Washington, DC on the state [...]

I was shocked to receive the e-mail from the Palestine Center announcing that Dr. Hisham Sharabi, who helped found the center, had died Jan. 13 at the American University of [...]

On Nov 12, the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, hosted a press conference at the Palestine Liberation Organization's Washington, DC headquarters to reiterate [...]

Against high odds, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) met in San Francisco Nov. 20 through Nov 23. As has been the case for the past few years, draconian U.S. [...]

Activists from around the world convened at New York City's Martin Luther King, Jr. High School on Aug. 26 for the Iraq War Crimes Tribunal. The New York meeting was [...]