Being the "ass"-essor that I am, I can confidently say that if you are Lebanese and you have ass, you are an exception to the rule.  Perhaps it's this "Phonecian" etno-ancestrial identification/blood that they so proudly tout over any claims to "Arab-ness" that is the cause of unfortunate a-posteri...

A poem inspired by the sight a red and black kuffiyahs hanging underneath a "10 minute Cellphone Charge Service" in a tourist's haven on 6th avenue in between 15th and 14th street: What is the power in a cultural symbol?Do I honor what it wasWhat it becameOr what it is becoming? I said: what is the ...

Why does every Western representation, photo-essay, primetime special feature on Muslims in America exclusively focus on the muhajabat when portraying the American Muslim woman experience? Time magazine's online photo-essay "Muslim in America" features 16 pics of "ordinary" Muslim activity in New Yo...

I wanted to believe in you. More so, I desperately wanted to believe in you. Blue all over the city of New York. Giants jerseys and Obama buttons I wanted to be one of the sea of blue-decked out in buttons and holding posters bearing your name, in support of your bid for the Democratic nomination. C...

A country that vehemently opposed the war and didn't bend it's Arab ass to be used as a military outpost, is paying the heaviest price for it-and a poor Arab country at that! Syria! I mean it's pockets are lined with...wait what does Syria have in plentiful production? Oh yeah, fisto ahdar! Suffices...