Arab-American Year Award: ACCESS board president Noel Saleh, left, and Ismael Ahmed, ACCESS Executive Director, present the Arab-American of the Year Award to Helen Thomas, the journalism legend, and Joseph R. Haiek, Publisher of the News Circle/ Arab-American Affairs magazine and the Arab-American Almanac series, since 1972.

Philip Salem, M.D.: pivotal contributor to cancer research.

Birzeit Convention Banquet : Over 600 Attend Birzeit Convention Banquet Dr. Moustafa Barghouti keynote speaker at the Birzeit convention banquet.

Dr. Clovis Maksoud:  Operation Desert Fox  against Iraq has left more 

debris in current US-Arab relations. US insistence on maintaining sanctions 

undermines the mere survival and sense of dignity . . .

 

Arab-Americans 2000:  By Abdeen Jabara, Esq. -   Arab-Americans have 

now had two decades in which they made a serious effort to organize 

themselves on a national basis so that they could come up on the radar 

screen of politicians, policy makers, movie moguls and media pundits . . . 
 

UNICEF: Sanctions Doubled Deaths of Iraqi Children:  Securing Middle 

Eastern oil flow is one thing, killing the children  of Iraq and destroying the 

fabric of Arab and Muslim dignity, is another. Editorial, The News Circle/

Arab-American magazine . . .

 

Prof. Edward Said, The News Circle, Arab-American of the year 2000: The cover story of The News Circle magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2000, with other articles.

  

Faith in Humanity: By Najeeb N. Khoury -  For being oppressed by our 

townspeople is no better than being oppressed by others, and not only is it immoral, but it also perpetuates our weakness and deflates our dreams-- 

our dreams as Arabs, Americans and humans.. .

 

A Tragic Reversal: Madeleine Albright's View of Reality-  By Dr. Hanan Ashrawi