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The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) is a Chicago-based community center founded in 1995 to strengthen the Arab immigrant and Arab American communities in the Chicago area by building their capacity to be active agents for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, its strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education ...
National Arab-American Service Day is an annual community service project spearheaded by the Arab-American Resource Corp which takes place in 15 cities throughout the country. Its mission is to encourage volunteerism and service among communities; to connect people through the common experience of service; and highlight Arab-Americans ...
By the 1920s Arabs immigrated to Chicago, and political turmoil in the decades following the 1948 creation of Israel brought more Palestinian Muslims to Chicago. Arab families live in Chicago Lawn and Gage Park Neighborhoods. Arab community founded Chicago Islamic Center and Mosque on 63rd. Many Middle Eastern store and restaurant near Mosque area.
In the southwest Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, tensions are boiling between Arab-American activists and police. Activists have been showing up at every police and fire commission meeting since the ...
Senior White House officials are planning to meet with Arab-, Muslim- and Palestinian-American community leaders in Chicago on Thursday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN, as ...
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states that it is "the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States." [1] According to its webpage, it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has a national network of chapters [2] and members in all 50 states.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is hiring Nasrina Bargzie to lead outreach to Muslim and Arab voters, according to a campaign official who shared details of the plan first with NBC News ...
Arabs were leaders in establishing the Iraqi-American Association, which has a membership of 3,000 predominantly Arab Iraqis and offers assistance to community members. [ 8 ] Kurds and Turkmens constitute small communities in Chicago, both groups are Muslim, but owing to their small size, less than 300 Kurds and 50 Turkmens attend the mosques ...