Ald. Gilbert Villegas and other aldermen including Ald. Raymond Lopez, are hosting a public forum to allow Arab American business owners the chance to detail what happened to their businesses when ...

The story of the Titanic has never been fully told. Among the passengers were several hundred Arabs from Middle East countries including Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. In James Cameron's film"Titanic," ...

State Senator Michael Hastings and State Rep. Cyril Nichols introduced co-resolutions honoring the life of the late Middle Eastern food industry pioneer Nemer Ziyad.Ziyad died on his 61st birthday on ...

Balfour Declaration, Photo. Courtesy of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Background. Every year Palestinians mark the Nakba – “catastrophe” in English – when in 1948 around 750,000 Palestinians were ...

Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for ...

Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for ...

Salem Furrha and his eight children @theFurrhaFamily on TikTok and Instagram represent a large movement of American Arabs who have turned to social media as a means of breaking up the boredom of ...

Columnist Ray Hanania argues that the term MENA to describe Arab Americans only dilutes the ability for Arabs to defend themselves against racism and that the term Arab should be used not only with ...

Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for ...

Ongoing protests against the biased, one-sided coverage of the violence between Israeli and Palestinians. The violence from Gaza was provoked by years of violence by Israel and Jewish settler ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, and its Massachusetts chapter (CAIR-MA) today condemned the Massachusetts ...

Peace Now: Attempt for the Establishment of a New Settlement in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City. There is growing concern over an attempt to seize one of the last undeveloped plots in Jerusalem’s ...