Recognizing Palestine
Ali Abuneimah
What do you do if your decades-long campaign to bring about an independent Palestinian state on those fractions of historic Palestine known as the West Bank and Gaza Strip have resulted in total failure? Read more from Aljazeera.com

Alfred Shaheen’s success as a designer and producer of clothing, as well as his family’s history in the textile business in the U.S., stretching back to 1888, is one aspect of the long history of the Arab American production and sale of textiles. The Arab American role in the textile industry is itself a vestige of the wide-scale production of silk in Greater Syria in the 1800s and early 1900s, which employed many of the earliest immigrants. More

Muslim “Homegrown” Terrorism in the United States: How Serious Is the Threat?
Risa A. Brooks
Since the September 11 attacks, analysts and public officials have expressed growing concern about the potential of Muslim citizens and residents of the United States to plot attacks within the country's borders—a phenomenon sometimes referred to as “homegrown” terrorism. To assess this apparent threat, it is necessary to examine what is known about the willingness and capacity of Muslim Americans to execute deadly attacks in the United States.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00055

Islamophobia is a curse that must be confronted
While Islam-bashers in the U.S. Congress, media, academic and other circles are sometimes careful to claim that their hostility to Muslims or Arabs or Islam is limited to the “extremists,” the goal and the impact of these campaigns is, nonetheless, in fact to demonize entire countries and communities. Aref Assaf writes More