Immigrants

A woman wearing a jilbab with a bouquet of flowers in her hand walks down a street in the Barbes district in Paris on June 25, 2023.

A walk through Barbès, the migrants’ hub in the heart of Paris

The district has welcomed Arab immigrants for decades. A crossroads of cultures, smelling and tasting of home, it is also a special place in the lives of Algerian singers Warda and Rachid Taha.

Sohaib Ayoub 11 March 2025

Teaching Arabic has become a highly politicised issue in France. This has deterred the state from offering enough Arabic classes. With few options, parents turn to mosques for learning.

Nesma Moharam

Arabic in France: Conflation with extremism hurts Arabic tuition

Teaching Arabic has become a highly politicised issue in France. This has deterred the state from offering enough Arabic classes. With few options, parents turn to mosques for learning.

Sabr Darwish 26 March 2024

In part 2 of a three-part series, Al Majalla examines how Arab immigrants in the Netherlands have increasingly turned to mosques to teach their children Arabic and why, for some, this is not ideal.

Aliaa Abou Khaddour

Arabic in the Netherlands: Mosques fill state vacuum

In part 2 of a three-part series, Al Majalla examines how Arab immigrants in the Netherlands have increasingly turned to mosques to teach their children Arabic and why, for some, this is not ideal.

Huda al-Attas and Ranwa Alamsy 25 March 2024

Teaching Arabic has been affected by the rise in Islamaphobia across Europe. In part 1 of a three-part series, Al Majalla looks at the experience of Arab immigrants in Germany.

Aliaa Abou Khaddour

Arabic in Germany: The latest hot-button issue

Teaching Arabic has been affected by the rise in Islamaphobia across Europe. In part 1 of a three-part series, Al Majalla looks at the experience of Arab immigrants in Germany.

Mohamed abi Samra 24 March 2024

“The Silence of the Fathers”: Rachid Benzine explores Morocco’s stoic immigrants in France

The French-Moroccan writer explores the painful tendency of first-generation immigrants to go silent, putting an unbridgeable distance between themselves and their children.

Samir Qasimi 01 November 2023

A Venezuelan migrant texts at a makeshift camp of migrants, set up alongside a river bank in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants Near US Border Face Cold Wait For Key Asylum Ruling

Hairdresser Grisel Garcés survived a harrowing, four-month journey from her native Venezuela through tropical jungles, migrant detention centers in southern Mexico, and then jolting railcar rides…

AP 23 December 2022

A group from Texas that is part of the more than 200 "Dreamers," their families and supporters from around the U.S., who traveled to Washington to lobby lawmakers to provide citizenship to "Dreamer" immigrants who entered the United States illegally or overstayed a visa as children, walk on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ted Hesson

Window Closing For Deal in U.S. Congress to Protect 'Dreamer' Immigrants

Over 200 advocates from around the United States converged on Capitol Hill this week with an 11th-hour mission: persuade lawmakers to provide citizenship to "Dreamer" immigrants who illegally entered…

15 December 2022

Cover of "Stories My Father Told Me" By Elia Zughaib and Helen Zughaib

Memories from Syria

The recent Syrian immigration to the West after the start of the civil war was not the first, although it has been massive in scale, and involved utmost cruelty. The first wave was during the end of…

Mohammad Ali Salih 04 February 2022

Reem Alabali-Radovan: The 1st German Minister of Iraqi Origin in the Deutscher Bundestag

Fifty-eight years after the martyrdom of the well-known Iraqi leftist fighter, MuhammadSalihAlabali,who died after being tortured by gangs of the National Guard immediately after his arrest in July…

Majalla 24 December 2021

Celebrating Arab Americans Through Art

Last week, The Arab American National Museum (AANM), in Dearborn, Michigan, the home of the largest Arabic and Islamic communities in the US, hosted the annual Arab Film Festival, as part of other…

Mohammad Ali Salih 03 December 2021

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Morocco's influence on Matisse

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A walk through Barbès, the migrants’ hub in the heart of Paris

Arabic in France: Conflation with extremism hurts Arabic tuition

Arabic in the Netherlands: Mosques fill state vacuum

Arabic in Germany: The latest hot-button issue

“The Silence of the Fathers”: Rachid Benzine explores Morocco’s stoic immigrants in France

Migrants Near US Border Face Cold Wait For Key Asylum Ruling

Window Closing For Deal in U.S. Congress to Protect 'Dreamer' Immigrants

Memories from Syria

Reem Alabali-Radovan: The 1st German Minister of Iraqi Origin in the Deutscher Bundestag

Celebrating Arab Americans Through Art

Two years after October 7

Cheers and jeers as Syria votes in first post-Assad parliament

Allies' anger over Gaza tests US support for Israel

Qatar’s economic resilience and the road ahead

Morocco's influence on Matisse

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