Following two years of opposition from Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm President Joe Biden s pick to the second-highest post at the Small Business Administration (SBA). Pakistani American businessman Dilawar Syed s
By Lennox Kalifungwa After Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) canceled a “Nakba Day” event to be hosted at the U.S. Capitol, featuring a presentation by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the Senate wound up providing a new venue for it. The event, called “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People,” took place on Wednesday night
al-Nakba, "the catastrophe," is how many Arabs refer to the period surrounding the birth of Israel and the subsequent expulsion of Palestinian people from what became the State of Israel.