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.
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.
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.
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.
The French-Moroccan writer explores the painful tendency of first-generation immigrants to go silent, putting an unbridgeable distance between themselves and their children.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
US and Chinese leaders have locked themselves into a downward spiral that goes far beyond tariffs, exports, and rare earths. This is about the future and who controls it.
Strategic investments aim to stimulate the economy, attract tourists, and elevate culture and the arts in Saudi Arabia as part of the country's Vision 2030 goals
The Adana Agreement defused a crisis in 1998 on the brink of a military confrontation. As revision talks are underway, Al Majalla reexamines the agreement.
Her task will be to balance the country's security imperatives with American expectations regarding burden-sharing, defence spending, and economic cooperation