A lot of Westerners I meet are surprised to learn that Arabs aren’t all radicalized desert dwellers — as stereotypes might have them believe. And when it comes to reading, even Arabs perpetuate self-defeating myths, according to Jamal Bin Huwaireb, CEO of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF). “Based on unsubstantiated statistics, […]
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Trump’s Syria withdrawal plan: Arab occupational force – and Arabs will pay for it
Washington reportedly wants Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar to replace the US in terms of troop deployments and funding in “stabilizing northeastern Syria,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The US currently has two major points of military presence on the ground in Syria: one on the border with Jordan in the south and […]
6 Israeli men charged with beating Arabs for dating Jewish women
Published time: 24 Apr, 2017 13:54 Six young Israeli men in the city of Be’er Sheva have been charged with severely assaulting Arab men over their romantic relationships with Jewish women. The Israeli men are aged between 17 and 20, and two of them are soldiers, according to Haaretz. In at least six incidents from […]
Thousands of Arabs & Jews march together to protest home demolitions
Jews and Arabs marched together in Tel Aviv to protest the planned demolition of homes in the Arab village of Kalansua and a Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. An estimated 5,000 protestors marched late Saturday, waving both Israeli and Palestinian flags. They were led by opposition politicians from the left-wing Meretz Party and the largely-Arab […]
‘This will ruin our lives’: Arabs and Iranians planning US trips are furious about Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’ order
AP CAIRO/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Arabs and Iranians planning U.S. trips reacted with fury on Saturday to new American travel curbs they said were insulting and discriminatory, as five Iraqis and a Yemeni were stopped from boarding a New York-bound flight in Cairo. In some of seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the restrictions, would-be travellers preparing […]