The Cultural Misrepresentations Among Us

The Cultural Misrepresentations Among Us

Yousef Munayyer

Special to AAF

Every time I walk into a so-called “Arab” themed establishment in the United States the same question comes to mind. What ideas are we in the Arab-American community exporting about

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Embrace foreign students

Embrace foreign students

Bergen Record Op-Ed
By AREF ASSAF

THE RECORD’S coverage of foreign student decline misses the real target of the post 9/11 visa restrictions. It also fails to adequately highlight the urgent need to adopt alternative methods to

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Stoning your own glass house

Stoning your own glass house

Herald News Op-Ed
By AREF ASSAF

It is a fact that more suicide bombings by Muslim terrorists have killed more Muslims than non-Muslims. It is this realization, I believe, that may soon emerge as the

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Perpetuating hatred is wrong

Perpetuating hatred is wrong
Aref Assaf

Re: Coverage of the documentary “Protocols of Zion“.

There is no doubt about the almost universal belief that anti-Semitism is a curse of untold proportions. Hatred of the Jewish people throughout Christian

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Of Arab and Jew in New Jersey

Of Arab and Jew in New Jersey

Daily Record Op-Ed

By Aref Assaf

Here in New Jersey, if you want to know what the gubernatorial candidates’ views are on the state’s Arab-American community, peace prospects in Israel and trading with

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Israel still violates US’s vision for peace in the Middle East

Israel still violates US’s vision for peace in the Middle East

Published in Aramica,  9/22/2005

Aref AssafAs pro-Israel apologists glowingly speak of Israel’s sacrifices for peace in the Middle East by its disengagement from Gaza, Israel continues to build more

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Justice for Peace

FEATURED Article: Justice for Peace

Yousef Munayyer

In recent months consistent rhetoric and meetings on the highest diplomatic levels have led many to be “optimistic” about future negotiations over Palestine. President Bush held meetings with the leaders of both parties

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 The Human Cost

 The Human Cost

Bergen Record

Also published in the Herald News and Daily Record

By AREF ASSAF


THE HUMAN COST of deliberate bad media coverage has a value only when people who matter do the counting.
Could this assessment fairly

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Abbas and prospects for peace in the Mideast

Abbas and prospects for peace in the Mideast

The Bergen Record

By AREF ASSAF

UNDOUBTEDLY, the recent presidential elections in the Palestinian territories are historic, but not only for their apparently transparent and trouble-free process or large turnout of Palestinian

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I made up my mind

I made up my mind

Aref Assaf

Denville

I have made up my mind, finally, to vote for the lesser of two evils. Two issues stand out as the basis of my decision: Civil rights and the Israel Palestine conflict.

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