AASA is helping to challenge the latest Muslim ban
We are joining the ACRL and the ACLU of Michigan’s lawsuit. Read more here. Members affected by the executive order should contact the board here.
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AASA President Louise Cainkar interviewed by Chicago Public Radio
Trump’s Immigration Order And Living In ‘Crisis Mode’ https://www.wbez.org/shows/morning-shift/trumps-immigration-order-and-living-in-crisis-mode/f82c984f-f0c6-4314-b361-78e166c01d3f Louise Cainkar, professor of sociology at Marquette University and author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 joins us on Morning Shift to talk about her book and what “the chilling human experience” of living in “crisis mode” means to communities singled out by President…
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AASA Board Member Evelyn Alsultany Nominated for El-Hibri Peace Award
AASA Board Member Professor Evelyn Alsultany has been nominated for the El-Hibri Foundation Peace Award for her incredible work in building Arab American studies. From the El-Hibri Foundation website: The following leaders were nominated for the 2016 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize ($30,000), for dedicating their lives to making outstanding contributions and demonstrating long-term leadership in building…
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AASA President Louise Cainkar Featured on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
Forget Poles: Palestinians find a home in suburban Chicago AASA President Louise Cainkar was recently quoted in a Chicago area radio program on Chicago’s growing Palestinian community. Check out the full piece here, and read an excerpt below: How many people of Palestinian descent actually live in the region? The truth is more complicated, but…
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AASA President on “Becoming Arab American” in MERIP
AASA President Louise Cainkar has a new article out via the Middle East Research and Information Project. Check out this preview and see link below to subscribe and read the whole piece. Becoming Arab American by Louise Cainkar published in MER278 Scholars have long found that while pan-Arab organizations in the United States called themselves…
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11th Annual Arab Film Festival at the Arab American National Museum, June 3-12, 2016
The Arab American National Museum (AANM) cordially invites you to our 11th annual Arab Film Festival (AFF), which kicks off June 3rd-12th! The AFF is part of the larger Cinetopia International Film Festival, so we’re a festival inside of a festival. This year’s lineup is bigger and better than ever! The AFF will showcases 8 Arab &…
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Khayrallah Art Prize Competition Now Open
The annual Khayrallah Prize recognizes the best artistic expression of the Lebanese Diaspora. Whether in visual art, written work, performance or electronic medium, the Khayrallah Prize identifies, awards and publicly honors those whose original work captures the experiences of Lebanese immigrants, their relationship to Lebanon and their new homes, and their communities and peregrinations. The winner will receive a monetary prize of $2500, and…
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas Honored with National Humanities Medal
Arab American studies scholar and creative writer Fedwa Malti-Douglas was recently honored at the White House and was granted a National Humanities Medal. Read the full University of California press release by clicking here. Excerpted below: Food activist Alice Waters, historian Vicki Lynn Ruiz and Arabic letters scholar Fedwa Malti-Douglas are among 10 recipients of…
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AASA Board Member Matt Stiffler Goes Viral!
A recent post about AASA Board Member Matthew Stiffler on the University of Michigan’s Facebook page generated quite a buzz on the internet this week. Check out The Arab American News coverage of the story: On Facebook on Wednesday, the University of Michigan featured Stiffler and his efforts to share that passion as part of…
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Check Out Amira Jarmakani’s Latest at “The New Inquiry.”
AASA member Amria Jarmakani recently posted an article, “Wild Wild East,” at The New Inquiry, where she discusses her new book, An Imperialist Love Story, out now via NYU Press: America has never stopped repeating stories about cowboys and Indians, even when the frontier is somewhere else…(Read More…) Join us in congratulating Dr. Jarmakani and…
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