Posts tagged arab
2012 Arab American Book Award Honorable Mention for Poetry: Transfer by Naomi Shihab Nye
2012 Arab American Book Award Honorable Mention for Non-Fiction: Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide edited by Steven Salaita
2012 Arab American Book Award Honorable Mention for Fiction: Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
2012 Arab American Book Award Winner for Poetry: abu ghraib arias by Philip Metres
Watch Your Waste Reception, a set on Flickr.
Students who worked on the Watch Your Waste program were honored at a reception at the Arab American National Museum on June 3, 2012. For more information about Watch Your Waste, visit www.sekrabemuseum.org/en
2012 Arab American Book Award Winner for Fiction: Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber
Arab Americans around the country turned out for the eighth annual Arab American Service Day on Saturday, May 19, 2012 to work on 18 projects throughout the United States. The annual event is sponsored and coordinated by the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) and its member organizations.
In Michigan, volunteers from NNAAC and ACCESS who joined high school and college students from throughout metro Detroit to clean up Belle Isle in Detroit.
(Source: nnaac.org)
1) NYPL Digital Gallery [482835, Lebanon Restaurant (Syrian), 88 Washington Street, Manhattan. (August 12, 1936)] Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938
2) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-DIG-ggbain-19028] George Grantham Bain Collection
The history of Little Syria in New York. More photos, article and video.
The Arab American National Museum is developing a travelling exhibit about Little Syria. More information on this exhibit can be found on the AANM’s website and on the Little Syria Facebook Page.
both/and breaks the shackles of “either/or” in this semi-autobiographical short video play by Jamil Khoury. In both/and, the characters of Jamil, Arab Man, and Gay Man explore and explode the constructed borders between American and Arab, Arab American and gay, for profit and not for profit, and assorted other disputed territories.
via Silk Road Rising
Dick Dale, The King of the Surf Guitar, is of Lebanese descent. You may remember his iconic song, Misirlou, which reintroduced Dale to a younger audience by the film “Pulp Fiction”.
