September 1st, 20220DEARBORN — Yemeni coffee is taking over the cafe scene in Metro Detroit by storm, and a major contributor to that world is Qamaria Coffee. The premium Yemeni coffee bean sourcing, roasting operation and cafe franchise is opening its fifth location at the border of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
Started by two Yemeni entrepreneurs...
June 17th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, failed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
This was the third such a challenge to the law shot down by the highest court in the country since the law's enactment in 2010. The latest decision by the Supreme Court will keep intact the law,...
August 31st, 20190PARKER, TX — On Saturday, August 31, the Arab Cultural Society (AACS) is hosting the third annual Arab Texas Festival at Southfork Ranch.
The AACS is a nonprofit organization that serves to strengthen and support the Arab American interests in the United States. Moreover, the organization aims to promote a more positive cultural...
January 26th, 20190HOUSTON – The successes of members of the Arab American community are expanding from the political and the scientific fields to sales and entrepreneurship, among many other areas. Patience and insight guided the vision of Ali Hodroj, a child of the border town of Hunin between Lebanon and Palestine, who was named the best salesman in...
December 21st, 20181Bahia Amawi works as children's speech pathologist for the Pflugerville Independent School District in Texas. Or, rather, she used to work as a children's speech pathologist for the district. After nine years, Glenn Greenwald reports at The Intercept, the district's administration declined to renew her contract because she refused to...
December 21st, 20180AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin public school district told a children’s speech pathologist she cannot renew her contract because she refused to sign a statement pledging not to boycott Israel.
Bahia Amawi said that the no-boycott requirement is a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.
Amawi, a child language...
September 1st, 20180By Taylor Adams
DALLAS, Texas — The second annual Arab Texas Festival returns to Mesquite on Sept. 2, offering food, performers and activities aimed at spotlighting Arabic culture. And it comes with a tempting array of food, including shawarma, falafel, meat and cheese pies and Arabic desserts.
The festival is the...
July 21st, 20181VICTORIA, Texas — A Texas man was found guilty this week of a hate crime in the burning of a local mosque in January 2017, an attack that a rights group connected to an increase in anti-Muslim incidents in the United States, on Wednesday.
Marq Vincent Perez, 26, was also found guilty on Monday by the jury in Victoria, Texas, of...
May 25th, 20180By Jen Rice
HOUSTON, Texas — Comedian Mo Amer calls Houston home and he’s coming to Austin next month to record his first hour-long Netflix comedy special. He’s been called a pioneer of Arab American standup and he’s toured for years with Dave Chappelle.
Amer made international headlines when he was upgraded to a...
March 23rd, 20180PFLUGERVILLE, TX — The serial bomber whose deadly attacks terrorized Austin, Texas, for weeks left a 25-minute video "confession" on a cell phone found after he blew himself up on Wednesday as officers closed in to make an arrest, police said.
Mark Conditt, 23, an unemployed man from the suburb of Pflugerville, detailed how he made...
March 21st, 20180PFLUGERVILLE, Texas — An unemployed 23-year-old man suspected of a three-week bombing campaign in Texas that killed two people and injured five others before blowing himself up on the side of a highway was identified by local media on Wednesday.
The suspect was identified as Mark Anthony Conditt of Pflugerville, Texas, according to...
November 5th, 20170SUTHERLAND SPRINGS- A gunman entered a church in a small town in southeast Texas on Sunday and began firing, resulting in many fatalities and injuries, a county commissioner told Reuters.
The gunman was killed several miles from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio, said Guadalupe...
September 7th, 20170HOUSTON, DEARBORN — Striding strenuously down a freeway, mostly mothers and their children were knee deep in water, making the journey away from their drowned homes.
They carried on their shoulders only what they could save. The water rose so fast that few families in Southeast Texas were left unthreatened by Hurricane Harvey's...
August 29th, 20172HOUSTON — A megachurch in Houston is facing a firestorm of criticism for closing its doors in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which has caused catastrophic flooding and forced thousands to leave their homes.
An announcement on Facebook said Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church had shut due to the storm and asked people to pray...
January 19th, 20170
TEXAS - Texas Muslims have taken offense to a letter from a State Rep. that surveys their beliefs and questions if they support radical Islam.
Just weeks into office, it appears State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, is concerned about Muslims first and foremost.
He sent a letter to mosque leaders and Muslim student...
