by Jacques Abou-Rizk | Aug 11, 2026 | Education, Featured, Foreign Affairs
Nicolas Jaimes was in the middle of taking the LSAT in Amman, Jordan, when he heard the missile strikes. A junior at Cornell, the 20-year-old New York City native had spent less than two months in Jordan for his study abroad program, learning Arabic and...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk | May 14, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) — Muslim civil rights groups denounced the second “Sharia-Free America” hearing this week after a group of House Republicans attempted to highlight the threat of Sharia law to the U.S. Constitution and institutions,...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk | May 12, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — American journalist Reza Valizadeh visited his elderly Iranian parents in March 2024 for the first time in 15 years. Valizadeh’s stories for Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded outlets often criticized the Iranian regime. So before...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk | Apr 29, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Some time since President Donald Trump’s second term began, the White House removed a reference to April’s Arab American Heritage Month from its website. Former President Joe Biden’s 2024 proclamation now only exists in internet archives. As the...
by Jacques Abou-Rizk | Apr 18, 2026 | Featured, Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON – One by one, students inside the intimate lounge of Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies on Wednesday called their family and friends across the Middle East. The dozen students and faculty members watched TV screens tuned to Al...
