Two seemingly unrelated recent events have caused me to reflect on the long journey to Arab American empowerment: the death of former Senator Joseph Lieberman on March 27 and the 28th anniversary of former Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown’s tragic death on April 3.When Arab Ame

Land has always been central to the Palestinian national identity.

Guys in white shirts and ties in Washington and their counterparts in Israel are sitting around tables making plans for after Israel ends its genocidal assault on Gaza (if they ever end it).

 The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are having a more dramatic impact on global alignments and US politics than the wars in Vietnam and Iraq had in their respective eras, even without any American troops directly engaged in either conflict.The war in Vietnam was fought at the peak

President Joseph Biden faced a heady task as he delivered this year’s State of the Union address to Congress.

One week before the October 7th Hamas surprise attack in Israel, President Biden’s national security adviser was quoted saying:“The war in Yemen is in its 19th month of truce, for now the Iranian attacks against US forces have stopped, our presence in Iraq is stable, I emphasise

When how unrelenting Israel’s assault on Gaza would be became clear, many Arab Americans of my age had a bit of PTSD.

Four months into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, it appears that discussions remain trapped in the same tiresome, delusional framing that existed before the current fighting began.

Twenty years ago, my brother John Zogby called that year’s presidential contest “the Armageddon Election”, referring to the way each side characterised the dangers to the country and the world should the other side win.