50 years on: Reflections from the 1974 AAUG Convention
The convening addressed continued media bias against Arabs, driven largely by the racist and Orientalist media coverage of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The intentional erasure of Palestinians represents the top-to-bottom, systematic ideological thought process in the west regarding Palestinians: Pretend that the Palestinians do not exist and, if that does not work, label them as the enemy to validate any violence inflicted on them.
Guest Narrative: Armenians and Arab American Organizing: Solidarities and Missed Connections
Looking at the history of Armenian and Arab American solidarity can help us envision new possibilities for coalition building in the current moment. Guest writer Thomas Sinsarian Dolan looks at the early AAUG and the broader development of Arab and Armenian organizing in academic circles.