Articles by Amer Zahr

The current negotiations between Israel and us Palestinians are essentially over. The whole episode was probably never going to yield anything real, but it was […]

This week, ABC Family picked up a pilot episode of “Alice in Arabia.”  ABC Family belongs to the family of networks under the umbrella of […]

We Arab Americans are in the midst of a civil rights movement.  Profiling and discrimination are rampant.  We are victims of debasement in the media […]

Last week, the Palestinian right of return made a special news appearance. For some time, the issue has been a sticking point in negotiations between […]

Israel, I know how you feel. It’s been a tough year.  And it’s only just started. Your world seems like it’s crumbling around you.  Everything […]

Thank God for DVR.  Otherwise, I might have thought I had hallucinated when I saw not one, but two images of Arab-looking veiled Muslim women […]

It is time. It is time to talk about the failure of Israel. I am not speaking of a singular or minor failure here and […]

This past week, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and her guests were discussing an article recently published on Slate.com by culture blogger Aisha Harris.  Harris […]

I wasn’t going to write anything in the wake of the death of Nelson Mandela.  I thought it would be lost in the sea of […]

A couple of weeks ago, it might have been cute if I had shown you the above array of logos and asked, “Wouldn’t it be […]

Yesterday, a very interesting e-mail arrived in my inbox.  ADC (the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) informed me that they are expressing “direct concern to the […]

Okay, listen up all you Muslims. Stop complaining. No more grumbling. Enough with the whining. The shooting at Los Angeles International Airport last Friday was […]

Last weekend, college students from around the country converged on Stanford University for a conference of the Students for Justice in Palestine.  SJP representatives and […]

I’ve been on some Arab dating sites (OK, all of them), and I’ve noticed while I’ve messaged many women, none have ever messaged me.  Maybe […]

Now, as I’ve said before, I watch the news all the time.  It’s a social activity.  And watching this whole crisis concerning the shutdown and […]

It’s hard to describe what it felt like listening to Benjamin Netanyahu speak yesterday at the United Nations.  Many phrases came to mind: “alternative reality,” […]

At first glance, it may have seemed that we Arabs were not that present in the news this week.  Syria was mostly out of the […]

It’s been 20 years since Oslo. We Palestinians might not be good at everything, but we are strangely talented when it comes to knowing how […]

Dear President Obama, My views about the current situation in Syria are borne out of my experience and existence as an Arab-American.  I am not […]