Israel’s Arab students are crossing to Jordan
Obstacles to Israel’s Arab minority participating in higher education have resulted in a record number of Arab students taking up places at universities in neighbouring Jordan, a new report reveals....
View ArticleIsrael to drop Arabic names
Thousands of road signs are the latest front in Israel’s battle to erase Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land, according to critics in both Israel and the wider Arab world. Israel Katz, the...
View ArticleThree Palestinian cafes of change
Cafes have always been integral components of Arab culture, making room for cultural and political syntheses. With the gradual increase in the complexities of contemporary issues facing the Arab...
View ArticleNo Arabic at McDonald’s Israel
A photograph of Abeer Zinaty shows the 20- year-old student from the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Ramle in central Israel wearing a T-shirt branded with the logo "Excellent Worker 2003 – McDonald's...
View ArticleMcBusted: McDonald’s manager admits speaking Arabic led to firing
Abeer Zinaty, the 20-year-old McDonald's employee in Israel who says she was fired by the world's biggest fastfood chain for breaking a ban on speaking Arabic in the workplace, has spoken to the...
View ArticleIsrael’s war on the Arabic language
Israel's one in five citizens whose mother tongue is Arabic are increasingly fearful of using it in public as hostility has mounted towards the language from both officials and the Jewish public, human...
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