Books
One Year Without Charges: Poet Ashraf Fayadh
Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh was arrested by Saudi authorities on January 1, 2014 — charged with “insulting the Godly self and having long hair” — ……Read More
Lifestyle
Immigration
What’s in a Name? The Meaning of “La Raza”
One of the fascinating things about the study of immigration policy is that it often brings up seemingly straightforward facts from which differing groups draw ……Read More
Immigration
ACA Gives Employers Even More Incentives to Hire Alien Workers
One of the unanticipated by-products of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is that it gives yet another set of financial incentives to many employers to ……Read More
Immigration
How an Alert Undocumented Syrian Could Obtain Life-Long Legal Status – Today
It is 11:36 a.m. on Monday, January 5, 2015. You are Ali Abdullah, a Syrian who desperately wants legal status in the United States but ……Read More
Immigration
Janet Murguia of La Raza Takes the High Road on Immigration Debate
Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, made some powerful observations about the immigration debate during a recent appearance on C-SPAN. ……Read More
Books
Reopening Ceremony for Tripoli, Lebanon’s Burnt ‘Al-Saeh Library’
year after the al-Saeh Library bookshop was burned, and an attempt made on the owner’s life, Tripoli residents gathered for an official re-opening ceremony: From ……Read More