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Bridging cultures for a brighter future Dear friends,Events & News The American Palestinian Women’s Association is hosting its 4th Annual Ramadan Gathering. We will be virtual this year and we want you to join us in a unique event that includes Rabbis, an Imam, and pastor, the historian and scholar Rose Esber, comedian Amer Zahr, Victorie Franklin, the granddaughter of Aretha Franklin, and more. All proceeds will benefit the Mar Elias refugee camp in Lebanon, which serves the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 Nakba, and more recently, Syrian refugees.  “It takes a village to raise a child” is a Nigerian proverb that is expressed in different forms in many African languages. This ancient African proverb best describes the life journey of a 3 years old Palestinian refugee. Ammar El-Ali was born with a profound hearing loss in both ears, but with the help of a Jewish American family friend and a caring community, Ammar is finally able to hear and broadly smile. US Feminists’ Omission of Arab American Women Explained Since the 1900’s, Arab American women have advocated for gender equity. Early Arab American feminists were first to shed light on the unique challenges of being Arab and American. They were the first in the New York City garment district to establish child care programs to facilitate the entry of women into the labor force. Today, Arab American women are highly educated, have higher labor force participation and professional representation rates than most American women, and earn higher incomes than average Americans, and many amongst them were first in breaking the gender barrier. Yet their collective contributions are glossed over and unappreciated. While this glaring omission is attributed to the deeply embedded prejudice that taints all Arab Americans, it is not the sole reason.
US Feminists’ Omission of Arab American Women Explained Arab American women are highly educated, have higher labor force participation rates than most Americans, earn higher incomes than average Americans, and are well represented in every professional sector, yet their collective contribution to community and country are glossed over and unappreciated. This glaring omission is attributed to deeply embedded prejudice that taints all Arab Americans, an outmoded narrow US racial construct of group identity that Arab American women transcend, and their shared core belief that wars and occupation harms the two worlds’ they love.
Mai Abdul rahman March 2016 |
