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Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Arab people, an ethnic group native to the Middle East and North Africa.

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Barack Obama Meets Leaders of Arab-American Groups Ahead of Mideast Trip

President Barack Obama on Monday met Arab American leaders who urged him to deliver a message of hope to the Palestinian people on his Middle East trip this month, even though he has made clear he will not use the visit to launch a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. Obama hosted about 10 leaders at the…

By Reuters Mar 11, 2013 | 2 min read
Israel News
Haneen Zoabi, Israeli Lawmaker, Is Reviled by Jews — and Adored by Arabs

At the Knesset in West Jerusalem, she has been threatened, denounced as a terrorist and stripped of her parliamentary privileges. Israel’s new kingmaker, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, has cited her as the reason he would never join a coalition that depended on support from Israeli-Arab political parties. But at the Ambassador Hotel in…

By Ben Lynfield Feb 16, 2013 | 6 min read
Culture
Detectives Bust Teenage Opium Den

Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating, edifying and sometimes wacky clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 Detectives from the 5th Street Station were given a tip…

By Eddy Portnoy Feb 9, 2013 | 2 min read
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Racist Israeli Soccer Fans Protest Muslim Players

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team are protesting team owner Russian-Israeli tycoon Arkadi Gaydamak’s decision to hire two Muslim players. Fans on the evening of Jan. 25 during a Premier League game against Bnei Yehuda at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem protested the move to bring two players from the Chechen Terek Gorzny team to…

By JTA Jan 28, 2013 | < 1 min read
Israel News
Arabs Vote for Change in Election Derided by Many

In this city of 20,000 just 20 kilometers east of Tel Aviv, red flags of the Hadash party, a left-wing Arab-Jewish list, fluttered on the main road. Posters elsewhere featured Isawi Freij, a local who is No. 5 on the Meretz party list. Other posters showed Ibrahim Sarsur of the United Arab List, another local,…

By Ben Lynfield Jan 22, 2013 | 3 min read
News
Israeli Arabs Gripped by Election Apathy

“To whom are you leaving the country?” entreats one poster for Balad, an Arab party, showing a photo of Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party. The party has proposed stripping Arabs of their voting rights if they refuse to pledge loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. But the pitch seems to be…

By Ben Lynfield Jan 13, 2013 | 5 min read
News
Al-Jazeera May Not Be TV Bogeyman

In the Middle East, networks financed by Western countries — such as France24, the BBC’s Arabic Service, Russia’s RT and Voice of America — have long been a staple of local airwaves. Now, the United States may be about to experience a Middle East-owned network talking back. Much remains unclear about what Al-Jazeera’s planned new…

By M. Berger Jan 9, 2013 | 5 min read
Breaking News
Arab Leaders Discuss Aid on West Bank Visit

Top Arab officials paid a rare visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday to discuss a Palestinian financial crisis that President Mahmoud Abbas hopes will be eased by Arab donations. Arab League Chief Nabil Elaraby and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr congratulated the Palestinians on a successful United Nations status upgrade last month,…

By Reuters Dec 29, 2012 | 2 min read

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