Libyan Diaspora Helps the Homeland
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Mar 31, 2011
In Libya, a grassroots group has sprung up to deliver medical supplies and necessities to people in battleground cities.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Top Stories
Tags: gaddhafi, humanitarian aid, Libya, UN no fly zone, united states, World Medical Camp Libya
Syrian Uprisings—Assad is Not Going Anywhere
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 31, 2011
Reports in Arab media seem to suggest that Syrian President Hafez Assad, who took over the leadership from his dictatorial father in 2000, is not going to step down, despite the intensity of demonstrations in Latakia and Deraa, because Syrians are not demanding it.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Assad, backing, power, stay in office, Syrian, Syrian Christians, Turkey, violence
Toward African Freedom in Libya and Beyond
San Francisco Bayview, News Report, Posted: Mar 30, 2011
The French, the Americans and the British could not reach an agreement with the African Union to bomb Libya because the political intelligence of African leaders has grown.
Categories: African, African American, Economy, Front Page, Intersections, Middle Eastern, War & Conflict
Tags: africa, france, intervention, libya, qaddafi. obama, sarkozy, united states
Little-Known High Court Case Could Help Beat Deportation
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 30, 2011
Last year’s Padilla court decision, requiring adequate immigration advice for defendants, holds important lessons for public defenders who must learn to protect clients.
Categories: Asian, Immigration, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: criminal justice system, deportation, immigration, jose padilla versus kentucky, public defender, supreme court
This Week on New America Now
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
Libyan diaspora's helping hand, Asian & Hispanic numbers in US Census surprise, India's Census, Wal-Mart class-action, Iran Film Series, Arabs Gone Wild
Categories: African, African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Science & Technology, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: arab, arab american, arabs gone wild, asian, bias, censorship, census, class action, cobb's comedy club, comedy, equal, female, film, gender, hamid naficy, hispanic, humanitarian, india, iran, jafar panahi, libya, maysoon zayid, pay, unequal, wal-mart, women, world medical camp, world medical camp libya, yerba buena center for the arts
Maysoon Zayid: Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
The Arabs Gone Wild comedian Maysoon Zayid discusses her new show.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Intersections, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content
Tags: adam sandler, Arab, arab american, arabs gone wild, cobb's comedy club, don't mess with the zohan, maysoon zayid, sanfrancisco
Libyan Diaspora Assists in Humanitarian Disaster Back Home
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
Libya's diaspora community is making a remarkable difference in getting help and supplies to the humanitarian disaster in their homeland.
Categories: African, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Immigration, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, War & Conflict
Tags: baby milk, disaster, humanitarian, libya, libyan, medical, necessities, supplies, world medical camp libya, yeast
Many Filipinos Won’t Leave Libya for Their Jobs
Philippine Daily Inquirer, News Report, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
Thousands of Filipinos have ignored the Philippine government’s last call to return home, preferring to stay in Libya rather than face a bleak future in their home country.
Categories: African, Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic
Obama's Foray into Libya: Guns, Money and Hope for the Best
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 24, 2011
Obama would be wise to encourage the forces of moderate Islam, and act with the advice and consent of the American people.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: libya, noflyzone, obamalibya, warlibya
U.S. Government Embarrassed by Afghan Woman Again
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 23, 2011
The U.S. State Department's denial of a visa to Malalai Joya may have more to do with the war in Afghanistan than Joya herself.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: afghanistan, afghanistanwar, MalalaiJoya
Eye On Arab Media: Pundits Critical of Military Intervention in Libya
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 23, 2011
Arab journalists voice serious concerns about Western military intervention in Libya after the United Nations enforced a no-fly zone over the country.
Categories: Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: arab, intervention, journalists, libya, media, no-fly zone, obama, pundits, sarkozy
Eight Years of Occupation In Iraq, Eight Years of Misery
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Mar 22, 2011
Demonstrations broke out in other countries of the Middle East recently, but people in Baghdad had been taking to the streets for years.
Categories: Front Page, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, War & Conflict
Tags: baghdad, cairo, egypt, iraq, middle east, occupation, protest, war
Little by Little, Turkey Is Empire
New America Media, Video, Posted: Mar 22, 2011
Turkey's view toward the Middle East during (and before) the Arab Uprisings.
Categories: African American, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, Video
Tags: cairo, egypt, islam, istanbul, libya, middle east, turkey
Al Jazeera Chief Lauds New Media
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 21, 2011
The Chief of Al Jazeera television spoke at a panel for the United Nations Human Rights Council about the effectiveness of new media in reporting.
Categories: African, Elders, Eye on Egypt , International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: al jazeera, ali hassan al jaber, benghazi, cameraman, chief, egypt, internet, journalism, journalist, libya, new media, souag, tunisia
Attack on Libya: Why Odyssey Dawn Is Doomed
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 20, 2011
The first engagement in a "limited action", as described by President Barack Obama, is not being fully revealed in its embarrassing details.
Categories: African, Asian, Eye on Egypt , International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: al qaeda, barbary, barbary war, dawn, gaddafi, gaddhafi, greek, homer, libya, moamar, muammar, obama, odyssey, qaddafi, qaddhafi, qatar, stephen decatur, tripolitan, tunisia, united states
United States's First-Ever Universal Period Review by the UN
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
For the first time ever, the United States's own human rights record will be reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Categories: African, African American, Asian, European, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: human rights, human rights council, iran, troika, united nations, united states, universal period review
This Week on New America Now: Nuclear Disaster, Iranian New Year, and the New Jim Crow
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
New America Now covers the nuclear disaster in Japan and its radiation fall-out, Iranian New Year, the new Jim Crow, and a new film about Indian surrogacy.
Categories: African, African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Environment, European, Health, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Science & Technology, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: california, disaster, india, iran, iranian, jim crow, made in india, michael lukas, michelle alexander, new year, norooz, noruz, nowrooz, nowruz, nuclear, oracle of stamboul, radiation, rebecca haimowitz, vaishali sinha, yoichi shimatsu
Norooz: The Iranian New Year
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
Iranians, Zoroastrians and Persianate peoples have been celebrating the new year on the first day of spring for millennia.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, South Asian
Tags: haft-sin, iran, iranian, iranian new year, new year, norooz, nowruz, parsi, persian, persianate, shirin sadeghi, spring, touraj daryaee, vernal equinox, zoroastrian
Politics of Disaster: Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Aid
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
As natural disasters like Japan's tsunami continue to happen worldwide, old enemies are turning to each other for assistance.
Categories: Asian, European, Health, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: afghanistan, bam, california, china, duzce, earthquake, iraq, istanbul, izmir, japan, new zealand, north anatolian fault, san francisco, tsunami, turkey
Lebanon: Revolution on Everyone's Mind But Not on Anyone's Agenda
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 17, 2011
Throngs of demonstrators in Beirut were not calling for an overthrow of the government, just a more productive one.
Categories: Eye on Egypt , Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content
Tags: ArabUprisings, Beirut, Hezbollah, Lebanon
In Libya, Benghazi’s Freedom Fighters Face a Massacre
Alhewar, News Report, Posted: Mar 16, 2011
As diplomats debate ending Gaddahfi’s rule, he is left free to murder the people demanding change.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arab World uprisings, Gaddahfi, Libya
U.S. Yemenis Hold Opposing Rallies on Yemen's Unrest
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Mar 14, 2011
Current unrest in Yemen has been the focus of opposing demonstrations among Metro Detroit Yemenis, one of the larger U.S. Yemeni communities.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arab, Arab World Uprisisng, People's Revolution, President Abdullah Saleh, Yemen
U.S. Arab Media Worry Hearings Will Worsen Islamophobia
New America Media, Roundup, Posted: Mar 12, 2011
Hearings on Islamic terrorism being held by U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. are deeply disturbing to journalists in Arab Media in the U.S.
Categories: Immigration, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
New America Now: Fighting for Rights, Respect and Safety
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
How International Women's Day has changed over the last 100 years and an in-depth look at reporting coverage of the drug wars in Juarez.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Chinese, Ethnicities, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
American Soldiers and Torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
The facts and stories behind American soldiers and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, European, Front Page, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: abu ghraib, abuse, adam gray, afghanistan, american, battalion 1-68, iraq, jonathan millantz, jordan, joshua phillips, lebanon, mental, military, psychological, richard boone, sexual, soldiers, syria, tony sandoval, torture, united states, us
What Makes a Muslim-American Radical? America's Own Wars on Muslims
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
Rep. Peter King's hearings on radicalization in the Muslim-American community ignored Al Qaeda's greatest recruitment tool: the U.S. wars in the Muslim world.
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Afghanwar, AlQaeda, Congress, GOP, hearings, IraqWar, Muslims, PeterKing, terrorists
The Black African Soldiers Who Fight for Libya—and the U.S.
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
Who are those mysterious black soldiers fighting on Gadhafi's behalf? They are U.S.-trained commandos whose first mission was to battle Al Qaeda in the Sahara.
Categories: African, Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: alQaeda, Libya, MuammarGadhafi, OsamabinLaden, Sahara, specialforces, Tuaregs, U.S.military
Eye on Arab Media: Is Israel Gadhafi’s Ultimate Safe Haven?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 10, 2011
Arab media say Gadhafi has few potential retirement destinations. But Israeli reports suggest an intriguing possibility. Could Gadhafi’s cap double as a yarmulke?
Categories: International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: dictator, gaddafi, gadhafi, internationalaffair, israel, libya, middleeast
Spike in Islamophobia Taking Toll on Sikhs
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 08, 2011
Attack on two elderly Sikhs outside Sacramento leaves one man dead. Are Rep. King, Huckabee and Gaddafi to blame?
Categories: Immigration, Media, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Gaddafi, hatecrimes, islamophobia, mikehuckabee, muslims, reppeteking, Sikhs, terror
Why Are Indian Warships Heading Towards Libya?
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 08, 2011
India claims its redeployment is aimed at rescuing 12,000 citizens from Libya. But the larger goal may be to send a message to China.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Journalists on the Frontlines of Revolution
Ipolitics, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 05, 2011
The sight of people standing up for their basic rights takes the writer back to a time when he was editing an English newspaper owned by Qatar’s foreign minister.
Categories: Eye on Egypt , Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: bahrain, caira, dohan, egypt, expression, freedom, journalists, qatar, revolution, yemen, young
New America Now: Mideast's Natural Resources, Attacks on Women's Health Care
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
How natural resources from the Middle East are a daily part of US life, what's behind the attacks on Planned Parenthood, and why social media's revolutionary impact may be overrated.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Indigenous, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: iran, middle east, PlannedParenthood, socialmedia
New America Now Interviews: Abbas Milani on The Shah
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
New America Now interviews Stanford Professor Abbas Milani on his new biography of the Shah of Iran.
Categories: Audio, Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content
Tags: abbas milani, biography, history, iran, iranian, king, mohammad reza pahlavi, mohammad reza shah, pahlavi, reza shah, shah, stanford
The Collapse of the Old Oil Order
Tom Dispatch, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
After the rebellion in the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed.
Categories: Economy, Environment, Eye on Egypt , Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: conflict, economy, egypt, middle east, natural resources, oil, petroleum, rebellion, war
Egypt's Elders Wary of Twitter Generation
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 02, 2011
More than half of Egypt's 80 million are under 30, and they are bringing radical change to the country after the revolution.
Categories: Eye on Egypt , Front Page, Middle Eastern, Science & Technology, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Missing Voices in Yemen's Uprising
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 02, 2011
Yemeni-Americans say much is missing in coverage of the political unrest that erupted in their home country over three weeks ago.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Abdullah Ali Saleh, Arab, media, people's revolution, Yemen
Why Obama Should Pull Out of Afghanistan
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 02, 2011
Obama promised to make Afghanistan his war and thought it was winnable but perhaps he should rethink that strategy.
Categories: Front Page, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, War & Conflict
Tags: Afghanistan, dnc, election, iraq, islam, obama, troop, war, withdrawal
Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
On the surface, Qatar is the pro-Western host of the U.S. Central Command but it is also underhandedly backing an Islamist takeover of North Africa.
Categories: African, Eye on Egypt , International Affairs, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: abdullah bin khalid al-thani, afghanistan, al jazeera, al qaeda, al-muqtaliya, bosnia, central command, clinton foundation, david shayler, egypt, federation of american scientists, gaddafi, gadhafi, george clooney, hamad bin jassim bin jabr al-thani, iraq, islamic, islamist, khalid shaikh mohammed, libyan islamic fighting group, matt damon, mohammed ali dahham mansoori, muammar qadhafi, muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, qaddafi, qatar, royal family, soviet, state department, syriana, tunisia, white house, world trade center, yusuf al-qaradawi
Was Egypt's ‘Revolution' a Military Coup and Will U.S. Policy Change?
The Final Call, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
Observers of the Egypt revolution question the perception of triumph and what the power shift represents.
Categories: Eye on Egypt , Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: egypt, politics, President Hosni Mubarak
Libyan Americans Anxious As Revolution Unfolds
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
Libyan Americans are closely watching the political unrest continue in their home country, but fear most for their families still in Libya and the country's future.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arab, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, people's revolution