Search

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization By Leon McCarron, Pegasus Books, 2023, hardcover, 352 pp. MEB $28.95 The Embassy of Iraq to the United States hosted [...]

WHAT DID CHRISTIANS DO when Israel bombed the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, one of the oldest churches in the world, killing 18 of the hundreds of Palestinians [...]

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Muslim American Society (MAS) hosted their yearly convention over the Memorial Day weekend at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland. This was [...]

The Middle Eastern American Advisory Group, the Office of Community Partnerships and the Arab Americans of Montgomery County hosted a celebration of Arab American heritage on April 20, 2024, at [...]

By March 14, the third day of a Washington, DC restaurant's pop-up fundraising dinners, dubbed the 'Two Plate Solution,' there was controversy--as fraught as almost every discussion of the Israel-Palestine [...]

People holding candles, signs and Palestinian flags shared their grief for the death of U.S. Air Force service member Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC and at [...]

I SPENT MOST of my childhood in the Middle East accompanying my foreign service officer father, Richard Curtiss, cofounder of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine. He and [...]

'Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity and Resilience' is the exhibit running until Sept. 1, 2024, at IA&A at Hillyer (International Arts & Artists' contemporary art center), behind the Phillips [...]

Every year, USS Liberty survivors, relatives and friends gather in Section 34 at Arlington National Cemetery to remember their 34 shipmates who were killed in an Israeli attack on their [...]

The Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC hosted an evening of solidarity with Gaza on Dec. 21, 2023, dedicated to honoring the life, memory and legacy of Dr. Refaat Alareer, who [...]

'LIVE FREE OR DIE' is the official motto of the State of New Hampshire. That motto was brought up repeatedly on Jan. 12, 2024, during the dramatic testimony of USS [...]

Finding Melody Sullivan By Alice Rothchild, Cune Press, 2023, paperback, 190 pp. MEB $16 As a mom and former high school teacher, I wanted to give a stern lecture to [...]

Suffice it to say, money is flooding the 2022 election cycle. There are mammoth sums flowing into American politics, much of it legalized or enabled by the Supreme Court, according [...]

As the world watched their governments fail to stop Israel's rampage in Gaza, people came together to raise funds to help desperate charities save Gazan lives. Members of the Virginia [...]

The Middle East Institute and the American Task Force on Lebanon held a virtual book talk on March 1 featuring award-winning multimedia journalist Dalal Mawad, who spoke about her recently [...]

Laila Mokhiber, national committee director of communications, welcomed guests to UNRWA USA's fundraising iftar at the Qatar America Institute for Culture (QAIC) in Washington, DC on April 8. She thanked [...]

The National Arab American Women's Association (NAAWA) held its 8th annual International Women's Day luncheon on March 8 at the Westin Tysons Corner hotel in Virginia. Master of Ceremony Dr. [...]

WHEN JAMES ABOUREZK moved to Washington, DC in 1970--first as a U.S. representative and then, from 1973 to 1979, as the first Arab-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate--he [...]

The DC Metro Chapter of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) hosted a tatreez class taught by Wafa Ghnaim at Middle East Books and More on Feb. 19. Organizers marvelled [...]

Palestine Is Our Home: Voices of Loss, Courage, and Steadfastness Edited by Nahida Halaby Gordon, Palestine Books, 2016, paperback, 173 pp. MEB $12 Some of the most profound memories I [...]

It's ironic that despite the Trump administration showering gifts on Israel (moving the embassy to Jerusalem, accepting the annexation of the Golan Heights and giving a green light to annexing [...]

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza By Mosab Abu Toha, City Lights Publishers, 2022, paperback, 144 pp. MEB $15 Award-winning poet, short story writer and [...]

You Are Your Own Best Teacher!: Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination and Intellect of Tweens By Claire Nader, Essential Books, 2022, paperback, 237 pp. MEB $20 While Claire Nader's engaging book [...]

On Jan. 11, Dr. James J. Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, discussed political activist Ralph Nader's radical idea to save Lebanon during his weekly Zoom 'Coffee and a [...]

The Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP) celebrated its 5th Annual Gala and auction with a seated dinner hosted by the Tabard Inn, in Washington, DC, on Nov. 3. Emmy-nominated [...]

By Susan Abulhawa, Atria Books, 2020, hardcover, 366 pp. MEB $25 You know things are not going to go well for the narrator when Nahr's story begins locked in solitary [...]

The non-partisan New Dominion PAC (NDPAC) and the Arab American Democratic and Republican caucuses of Virginia held their 32nd annual Northern Virginia Candidates' Night Dinner at the Tysons Corner, VA [...]

The American Community School (ACS) Beirut held a reunion Aug. 4-7 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, MD. The school's triennial reunions are held in different locations across the [...]

The Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA) hosted a meet and greet on Aug. 25 at the Lebanese Taverna in McLean, VA. Founded in 2013 by Palestinian healthcare professionals practicing in [...]

This is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman By Ilhan Omar, HarperCollins, 2020, hardcover, 277 pp. MEB $25 I'll admit I've been worried about Rep. Ilhan [...]

The first day of the Arab Center Washington (ACW)'s annual conference, Sept. 21, focused on the upcoming elections. ACW executive director Khalil E. Jahshan opened the discussion noting that more [...]

Anera (formerly American Near East Refugee Aid) held interfaith Ramadan Iftars in Washington, DC and the San Francisco Bay Area on April 11, to raise funds for food package and [...]

In honor of Arab American Heritage Month, on March 16 Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) co-hosted [...]

The American Palestinian Women's Association (APWA) celebrated International Women's Day with an exceptional event cohosted with the Palestinian Youth Movement at George Mason University's Johnson Center on March 18. Middle [...]

For decades USS Liberty survivors of Israel's June 8, 1967 attack on their ship have gathered in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery to honor their 34 shipmates, who paid [...]

BOOKLOVERS around the world are mourning the loss of John Goelet, 91, who died Jan. 8, 2023 at his home in Maryland. That's because wherever he traveled around the world [...]

As our readers know, our annual Israel lobby conference (IsraelLobbyCon) at the National Press Club, cohosted by the Washington Report and Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), has traditionally [...]

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom By Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri, One World, 2022, hardcover, 288 pp. MEB $25 Full disclosure: I am not [...]

Attendees marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov. 29 by taking a tour of the Museum of the Palestinian People, followed by a screening of [...]

A sold-out crowd celebrated Arab culture and heritage at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's (ADC) Turaath Night at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium on Dec. 8. ADC's national executive director [...]

Internment: A Novel By Samira Ahmed, Little, Brown and Company, 2020, paperback, 400 pp. MEB $10.99 From the first page of Internment, this reader felt queasy, right along with the [...]

The Museum of the Palestinian People's latest exhibition, 'Dreams Rising: Palestinian Children in Gaza Imagine a Future Beyond Trauma,' opened on May 14. Curator Ahmed Mansour said the children's original [...]

Growing Palestine hosted a luncheon featuring Vivien Sansour, the 'Seed Queen of Palestine,' on Feb. 27, at the home of board member Samar Hussein Langhorne in Washington, DC. Langhorne described [...]

My First and Only Love: A Novel By Sahar Khalifeh, Translated by Aida Bamia, The American University in Cairo Press, 2021, paperback, 394 pp. MEB $20 A deep, burning sense [...]

THERE'S A MOLE inside your organization, warned the tipster in an email sent last year to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group. Soon [...]

MIDTERM ELECTIONS are a year away, but candidates are already knocking on doors. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate [...]

Curator Ahmed Mansour welcomed more than 150 art enthusiasts to the Museum of the Palestinian People on Oct. 7 for the opening of Mary Hazboun's solo exhibition 'The Art of [...]

Going back to school is a challenge for many families in Washington, DC's Ward 7, especially this year due to COVID and inflation. Irene Stevenson, from American Third Pillar Charities, [...]

Dale Sprusansky: And with that, I'd like to hand it over to Delinda Hanley, the executive director of the Washington Report, who will give a brief overview before we begin [...]