Arab Americans Archive
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Syrian Artists for Freedom honored by OC pols
Posted on May 14, 2012 | 5 CommentsHundreds attended Sunday night’s concert to raise funds for victims of the Syrian regime’s brutal crack down on protesters that started fourteen months ago. The concert, held at the Grove... -
Irvine 11′s Osama Shabaik Dropped From TEDxUCIrvine Conference
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsOsama Shabaik, one of the “Irvine 11,” is still listed online as a speaker for an upcoming TEDxUCIrvine conference planned for March 3, but a change.org petition in circulation is... -
OC Syrians support the revolution as events unfold
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsThirty years ago yesterday, the Syrian regime led by the late Hafez al-Assad, launched a bloody assault and leveled entire neighborhoods in the city of Hama in response to an... -
Anaheim’s Little Arabia: An Ethnic Enclave Seeks to Make it Official
Posted on January 29, 2012 | 10 Comments. . . . . A year after the Egyptian uprising began, I take a look with this Orange County Weekly cover story at how the Arab Spring has swept... -
Continued Crackdown in Syria Claims Relative of Anaheim Businessman
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No Comments. . . . . Arab League observers in Syria have issued an initial report recommending the continuation of their controversial mission assessing whether or not the regime of President... -
26 years since Alex Odeh’s murder in Santa Ana, case remains open
Posted on October 12, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . Yesterday marked the 26th Anniversary of the murder of Alex Odeh. Alex was killed on October 11, 1985, when a powerful pipe bomb exploded as he... -
Libyan Rebels Take Tripoli! But where is that freaky dictator?
Posted on August 22, 2011 | 19 Comments. . . We’d like to have the latest breaking news for you here on the newest triumphant chapter of the Arab Spring – the rebel takeover of Tripoli. All... -
[This Weekend] Al-Awda’s Annual Pro-Palestinian Conference in OC
Posted on April 29, 2011 | 2 Comments. . . . . The Al-Awda Palestinian Right to Return Coalition will be holding its ninth annual convention in Orange County this weekend. It’s a very important political gathering... -
OC Syrian-Americans divided over Syria’s revolution
Posted on April 17, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . Orange County’s Syrian-Americans are divided over the revolution in Syria. Several protests in front of the Syrian consulate in Newport Beach were held. Some against the regime... -
OC woman’s role in the Egyptian revolution – NOW with VIDEOS.
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 12 Comments. . . . . Costa Mesa-native Gigi Ibrahim, 24, the “free-spirited American” and “angry Egyptian” as she describes herself, played an instrumental role in the Egyptian revolution that toppled... -
Egyptian Revolution Celebrated in Anaheim!
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 9 Comments. . . . . A small but spirited crowd gathered on Saturday in Anaheim’s - unofficial but should be official – Little Arabia district to celebrate the people’s ouster... -
![. . . [Roqaya Ashmawey, the OJ's resident Egyptian blogress] They did it. They actually did it. The Yuppie kids at the American University of Cairo, the cab drivers, the...](http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/roqaya-155x155.jpg "Damn it feels good to be Egyptian!")
Damn it feels good to be Egyptian!
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 65 Comments. . . [Roqaya Ashmawey, the OJ's resident Egyptian blogress] They did it. They actually did it. The Yuppie kids at the American University of Cairo, the cab drivers, the... -
Celebrate the Egyptian Revolution Saturday afternoon in Anaheim’s “Little Arabia!”
Posted on February 9, 2011 | 13 Comments. . . . . “Hosni Mubarak Posts Topless Photo on Craigslist” Photo Cred: Lalo Alcaraz UPDATE: The title bears changing given this history that has been made today!... -
Hosni’s lost his mind! (Mubarak that is.)
Posted on February 5, 2011 | 1 Comment. . . The 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the end of Mubarak’s regime in the country signifies not just a people’s struggle for their right to basic human dignity but...
