Mizrahi Jews

• In 2022, Joe Biden made history as the first U.S. president to recognize the month, which he did again in 2023.
• States such as Illinois and Virginia have passed legislation to make the celebration an annual event, and dozens more have commemorated it.
• From TV stations to entertainment media, people of Arab descent are often stereotyped as violent, oppressed or exotic.

Arab Christians

• For many in the United States, this overlap seems natural, given how often Islam is conflated with Arab identity.
• But just as most Muslims around the world are not Arab, not all Arabs are Muslim.
• During the first significant wave of Arab immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th century and early 20th century, families more often than not were Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian Christians.
• While the Arab community in the greater Detroit area, a short drive from where I live and work, is majority Muslim, that sets it apart from many other Arab communities in the U.S. Arab American Christians are themselves diverse, identifying as Protestants and Catholics, and with a variety of Eastern Christian traditions, such as Antiochian and Coptic Orthodoxy.

From Mizrahi Jews to Shiite Muslims

• Arab Jews, often called Mizrahi Jews, have existed since ancient times and helped shape Arab heritage through their philosophical, poetic and political contributions across centuries.
• To be sure, Israel’s establishment and its occupation of Palestinian territories has complicated Arab Jewish identities, with new forms of antisemitism becoming more common within many Arab communities.
• Over half identify as Sunni, 16% as Shiite and the rest with neither group, according to a 2017 Pew poll.
• Finally, many Arab Americans identify with no religion at all, or with other faiths beyond the Abrahamic traditions.

Many nations, one box

• Arab heritage not only includes a variety of religious traditions, but encompasses a wide range of ethnic and racial identities.
• It is difficult to make generalizations about Arabs, whose skin tone, facial features, eye colors and hair textures embody the rich histories of human migrations and settlements that characterize western Asia and northern Africa.
• And Arab identities in the U.S. are becoming only more complex, given the diversity of national backgrounds reflected in the more recent waves of Arab immigration from the 1960s to today.

Complicated identities

• The term Afro Arab is growing as a term of self-description for Black Arab Americans seeking to make space for their multifaceted identities and heritage.
• Black communities are a part of every Arab country, from Iraq to Morocco.
• These dual identities are still fraught, given the pervasiveness of anti-Black racism within some Arab communities, which often stems from the legacies of the trans-Saharan and Ottoman slave trades.
• Still, Tunisia’s president recently provoked outrage after he gave a racist speech targeting African migrants and Black Tunisians.

500-year journey

• Based on true accounts, Lalami narrates how he was enslaved and brought to current-day Florida by 16th-century Spanish colonizers.
• If heritage months are an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of America, the diversity of the Arab community itself should not be overlooked.

• NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As modern health brands evolve to meet the need for increasingly integrated experiences between health companies, providers, and patients, Havas Health & You today announced that it has appointed innovative creative leader Laura Mizrahi as Chief Creative Officer (CCO) of H4B Chelsea, one of Havas Health & You's flagship health and wellness agencies.
• Laura joined H4B Chelsea September 6th, and will work closely with H4B Chelsea President Violet Aldaia and Havas Health & You Global CCO Eric Weisberg to foster agency growth and brand success through data-driven, connected experiences that meet the ever-changing standards and demands of the health and wellness landscape.
• Mizrahi joins Havas Health & You from FCB Health NY, where she contributed to substantial organic and new business growth for the agency.
• Havas Health & You unites Havas Life, Health4Brands (H4B), Lynx, Red Havas and Havas Health Plus, all wholly owned health and wellness communications networks, with the consumer health businesses and practices of Havas Creative Group.

• DesignRush reached out to industry experts to discover the key eCommerce brand-building strategies businesses should use for more sales in 2022.
• MIAMI, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- With as many as 9.1 million online retailers in the world, as per etailinsights' data, eCommerce is an increasingly crowded sector.
• DesignRush , a B2B marketplace connecting businesses with agencies, leveraged its 13,000-agencies-strong network for quick insights or "QuickSights" on the key eCommerce brand-building strategies businesses should leverage for more sales in 2022.
• "[It enables] you to speak to your audience with that same tonality on every element of your business that you share.

• ThirdLove, the top online bra brand for millenials, announced today the acquisition of Kit Undergarments, the cult favorite intimates brand founded by celebrity stylists Jamie Mizrahi and Simone Harouche.
• Relaunching April 26, 2022 as Kit Undergarments for ThirdLove, the brand will continue to offer innovative, elevated basics that form the foundation of every womans wardrobe.
• The acquisition of Kit Undergarments is the first by ThirdLove and a major tentpole moment, as it sets the stage for long-term growth and success of both brands.
• Kit Undergarments for ThirdLove launches on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, on www.thirdlove.com .