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American Muslim groups have denounced anti-Islamic advertisements which have been scheduled to run on New York City buses in the coming weeks, calling them vitriolic and hateful. Six advertisements, with anti-Muslim content, are slated to appear on buses from September 29th on 100 New York City buses and on two subway entrances. The advertisements will run for four weeks, the …

Former New York Supreme Court judge appointed to UN Gaza investigation committee Mary McGowan Davis, a former New York City judge, on Monday was appointed to the UN commission to investigate the Israeli offensive and the actions of Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, the UN’s Human Rights Council said. Lebanese-born British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin was previously offered the …

The winners of the 2014 Arab American Book Awards were revealed by the Arab American National Museum on Tuesday, with several books written about Arab American culture published in 2013 in contention. Among the winners were “The Corpse Washer” by Sinan Antoon for the Fiction Award, “We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War” by Nadje Al-Ali …

The New York Police Department has abandoned their secret program which dispatched plainclothes detectives to Muslim neighbourhoods to snoop in on conversations and build detailed files on where people prayed, shopped and ate, the department said. The decision from new NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton comes as he tries to distance himself from the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering methods used by his …