Tag: Arab

Stories about Arab immigrant communities.
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How Reconnecting with Our Immigrant Roots Can Help Us Survive 2021

Families are drawing on recipes, traditions and ancestral practices.

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My Hijab, My Body: The Video

A Brooklyn woman expresses her feminism and her Muslim heritage.

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My Hijab, My Body – The Journey of a Tattooed Yemeni Feminist: The Fi2W Podcast

A young Muslim woman defies expectations to create her own path.

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Redefining the Role of Women in Islam

Reima Yosif is a shaykha, a female Muslim scholar. Her focus is on educating Muslim women.

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New York’s Muslim Geography, from Apartment Mosques to Prayers in the Street

With some 350 mosques, NYC offers a wide variety of approaches to Islam.

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Wearing the Veil: A Means of Liberation for Muslim Women

Far from being a way to repress women, a Muslim scholar says the veil allows women to be more assertive.

Immigration Reform Sign on 4th Street
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Podcast: DREAMers No More- What is Happening to Young, Undocumented Immigrant Activists?

Undocumented youth activists are changing strategies in response to the deadlock over immigration reform.

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‘What I Carried’ Volume Three: Romanian Records, and a Lebanese Family Cookbook

Using sound, photography and text, stories about immigrants from our collaboration with Cowbird.

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Could Voters in a Heavily Hispanic District Elect the First Arab-American to the New York City Council?

Zead Ramadan could make history, but is considered an underdog in the race in upper Manhattan.