#arab-american

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Hala Gorani

Hala Gorani was born in 1970 in Seattle, Washington. Gorani's work as a journalist has taken her to some of the most dangerous places in the world. She has covered the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, the Arab Spring, the Syrian Civil War, and the war in Ukraine. Gorani has won three Emmy Awards, and her reporting on the 2010 earthquake in Haiti contributed to CNN winning the Golden Nymph Award. She has interviewed Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Nicolas Sarkozy. Gorani was the anchor of Hala Gorani Tonight on CNN International, and is now an international correspondent for NBC News. In 2024, she published a memoir, But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging.

[maestrita]

Attempting to explain to my boyfriend why canned stuffed grape leaves aren't equivalent to home made ones from my grandmother's recipe with leaves from her vine and realizing there are some things he'll never quite understand...

[profeminist]

Marvel's newest superhero is an Arab-American from Dearborn, Michigan

Like anything Marvel produces, its newest superhero is shrouded in mystery.

"Not much is known about his powers or his background, except that he hails from Dearborn, Michigan, is considered a "gentle giant" and wears an amulet around his neck -- a nod to his Arab-American heritage.

Fadi Fadlalah, aka the superhero Amulet, will appear in a new Ms. Marvel comic alongside Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American teen.

Khan took up Ms. Marvel's mantle in 2013, becoming Marvel's first Muslim superhero

.Jordanian-American illustrator Sara Alfageeh, who co-created Amulet with Marvel scribe and author Saladin Ahmed, said the two based his hero design on the nazar, a symbol thought to protect wearers from the evil eye -- or the "harmful intentions of others."

"We tend to associate sharp corners and edges with evil, and rounded designs and circles with good," she said in a statement to Marvel. "This character is a gentle giant, so I wanted to make sure that even with his size he was shaped like a friend."

Fadi Fadlalah wears an amulet tucked under his shirt, thought to protect against the harmful intentions of others.Ahmed, a Detroit native and Arab-American who said he "basically learned to read from Marvel Comics," is keeping most of the details about Amulet's background a surprise. He did say, though, that Amulet's got magical powers.”

Read the full piece here

[commonrosefinch]

My sister just painted her hand white with acrylic paint instead of working on her project and said "Laney look, I'm totally white now." And burst into giggles. We're half-Arab. She's dodging school work to make a joke that's she's eventually going to have to wash away I-

[shatatless]

“You know, again, it just starts with a character who - It’s really exciting because I always wanted to make a show where the idea of faith and holding on to it and your culture was aspirational, so I really wanted to make something that wasn’t about someone trying to push away their faith, trying to push away where they come from, but a character who actually believes and seeing someone who has what he believes and then what he actually does and there’s just this space in the middle.”

[averytauntingletter]

being arab and suddenly seeing non-arabs/non-muslims use arabic phrases is so crazy. people are using yalla habibi online and idk it feels kinda? weird? like obvs im not that mad or anything but like hmm. thats a phrase i use every day and ppl kinda just use it as a joke?

[thenerdsofcolor]

'Ramy' Season 3 Teases a Spiritual Crisis for the Hassan Family

‘Ramy’ Season 3 Teases a Spiritual Crisis for the Hassan Family

Ramy Hassan’s stated journey has been finding moral clarity on his life and what it means to be a good Muslim. Only problem is, he’s a constantly selfish screw-up. When we left him at the end of last season, he was at his lowest and most morally depraved, having completely humiliated his new (and immediately former) wife Zainab (MaameYaa Boafo), and rightfully enraging her father Sheikh Ali Malek…

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[olfamannai]

What I Will                                                by Suheir Hammad

I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not dance to your drummed up war. I will not pop spin break for you. I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you. Especially I will not die for you. I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide. I will not side with you nor dance to bombs because everyone else is dancing. Everyone can be wrong. Life is a right not collateral or casual. I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. Our humming will be drumming. I will not be played. I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum ain’t louder than this breath.