“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.

In many ways, electronic music producer and self-described “Arab bass dropper” Samer Saim Eldahr, who goes by the stage name Hello Psychaleppo, has a typical Syrian story. More than a decade ago, after the start of the war in Syria, he left his hometown of Aleppo for Beirut, and has relocated numerous times since. But that might be the only typical thing about Eldahr, 35. Today, the musician draws large, international crowds has booked shows in Paris, Berlin, Beirut, and Osnabrück, Germany. And he is slated to share a West Philadelphia stage on Saturday, August 10 with renowned Sudanese band Alsarah & The Nubatones.