Over 30 demonstrators interrupted the Philadelphia School District’s monthly board meeting at district headquarters this past Thursday, October 24th, calling on the district to reinstate suspended Northeast High School teacher Keziah Ridgeway.

“I believe that most of us in the [Palestinian] diaspora kept our heads down for a long time and tried to fly under the radar,” Hazou said when she sat down for an exclusive interview with Al-Bustan News.

Mohammed Aqlan is a big dreamer. The Yemeni-born owner of Malooga, a Yemeni restaurant in Philadelphia’s Old City, is quick to admit this if you ask him about the genesis of Malooga.

With back-to-school season in full swing in the U.S., many Palestinian liberation activists are using this time to raise awareness of the ongoing ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza.

Al-Bustan News reports on Philadelphia’s La Farrah Boutique, a dress shop in Philadelphia's Winchester Park neighborhood, which sells traditional Palestinian dresses decorated with embroidery, or tatreez....

She’s vowed to lower drug costs, forgive student loans, and restore women’s right to reproductive healthcare. But, as Harris has yet to call for an arms embargo, or make any public commitments significantly distinct from Biden’s approach to the Israeli genocide, many “Uncommitted” and Arab-American voters in Philadelphia remain hesitant to place their hope in Harris.