Mehammed Mack

FOR ARAB-AMERICANS, listening to the national conversation about the Dubai ports deal was a painful experience — in large part because we were mostly excluded from the conversation. When Dubai Ports World unilaterally decided to end everyone’s misery by transferring operations to a “U.S. entity,” a great relief set in,......

UCLA’s Dodd Hall was fortified Friday night by an impenetrable network of fences, yellow-jacketed security guards and saberlike metal detectors. Inside, the students were outnumbered by suave television reporters pacing around, looking for material. “Are you a student?!” shrieked a camerawoman with one hand on my shoulder. Her young accomplice,......

Austrians and their admirers (Germans) regularly convene at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Santa Monica restaurant, Schatzi on Main, to mingle and drink themselves into gemütlichkeit — that feeling of homey warmth and comfort found in Alps chalets after a skiing odyssey. Of course, Schatzi’s decor, replete with Souplantation-style houseplants, celebrity photos, red-brick......

IN THE AFTERMATH of the Muhammad-caricature row, Muslims in Europe express little of the theological indignation of their Middle Eastern counterparts. Instead, many have kept their responses secular, posing questions about racism, politics and double standards. Such a position hasn’t really registered on Europe’s mainstream media, which have focused on......

From a distance, on a stark, clean, post-rainstorm morning, the StoryCorps mobile recording booth looks like a glistening mirage — an improbable car accident in the middle of Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. Up close, though, the silver 1950s Airstream trailer, which was custom-designed by architect Michael Schuman, is a......

Taysir Allouni, a veteran Al-Jazeera war reporter and the only journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden post-9/11, was sentenced last month by a Spanish court to seven years in prison for collaboration with al Qaeda. He was absolved, however, of membership in the organization, putting to rest the rumor......