Islamic, African American art museums team up in New Orleans
It seems like an unlikely collaboration: an exhibit of 75 paintings by more than 10 Muslim artists from five different countries, co-sponsored by Southern University at...Festival promises first rate films
Morocco, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria without leaving Dearborn? Or better yet, without leaving the Arab American National Museum? The museum is sponsoring the...Film sparks revival of Jenin theater
Hamtramck—Years after the release of the award-winning, heart-crushing documentary "Arna's Children," the film's creator is traveling the world to raise money to rebuild......
Regime change begins at home
Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.While the Bush White House...Zionist pressure puts press in jeopardy
ANN ARBOR —For four years, the University of Michigan’s publishing house has distributed books from the catalog of Pluto Press. Pluto’s books are critical, often......
Ramadan show captivates audiences
DEARBORN — Every night after dusk during Ramadan this year and last, Arabs around the world, Muslim or not, have been united, not by anything religious or nationalistic,...Ann Arbor theatre brings Shakespeare to Baghdad
It is easy to forget Baghdad as it once was and view it only as the tragedy it is today. But once upon a time, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates was the cradle......
Little Mosque hits the Middle East
CBC's "Little Mosque on the Prairie" is set to air in Israel and other corners of the Middle East, creating an interesting case of a Canadian sitcom exporting a message...‘The Kingdom’: Kill ’em all
Hollywood's first, and most violent, movie since 9/11 is "The Kingdom." This heavy-handed action film — black (bad Arab) versus white (good American) — displays the......
12th century Christian-Muslim exchange
The Palace "Al-Aziz" — La Zisa in Italian and English, is an Arab-Muslim monument in the Norman capital of Palermo in Sicily. The Normans were descendants of the Vikings...Art expert to lecture on 12th century Muslim-Christian cooperation
Hashim TawilOn Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007, local artist and art expert will present a lecture entitled "Arab-Norman monuments in Sicily: Manifestation of......
Disappointing architecture, stunning Islamic arts
Many reviewers have hailed the Institute of Contemporary Art's (ICA) new $51 million building on the Boston Harbor waterfront as all but a divine gift to architecture....Outing the “Israel Lobby”
WASHINGTON (IPS) — When John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt published their controversial essay "The Israel Lobby" in the London Review of Books in March 2006, their......
The new illiterate Orientalism
How do you defend an entire nation's literature and poetry in one small book? When the country to defend is Iran, and the people who need convincing are Americans, the...Belly headlines Detroit Hip-Hop Summit on finance
DETROIT - When Ahmad Balshe was seven years old, he fled war-torn Palestine with his family and settled in Ottawa, Canada. At age 10, his passion for hip-hop music......
