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Arab Chamber to host Arab Heritage Month dinner March 30

The American Arab Chamber of Commerce wll host a celebration of Arab American Heritage Month on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at Aladdin Banquets at 8821 W. 87th Street in Hickory Hills.

Chamber President Hassan Nijem said that doors will open at 6 PM and the program will begin at 7 PM.

Nijem said that the Arab community and elected officials are invited to attend the event which is being funded by local businesses and sponsors.

There are more than 450,000 Arab American living in the Greater Chicagoland region. The Southwest suburbs have the largest concentration of Palestinian Americans but the community includes Lebanese, Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, Yemenis and members of each of the Arab World 22 nations.

03-30-22 Arab Chamber Heritage Month Flyer

 

“The theme of the dinner is ‘Unity in our Community’ as an integral part of Arab American Heritage,” Nijem said.

 

“We’re talking about unity in our community and not necessarily worrying about the rivalries that exist between the some of the many organizations that exist and we don’t know what they do. But our community and our businesses are our priority and we wan tthis to be about them.”

Nijem said that a typical Arabian style dinner will be provided to all the attendees. And while no ticket is required and attendance is free, attendees will be asked to make a donation “if they can and if they wish.”

 

“We want to thank the community for all that they go through as Arab Americans. Our community is strong. We have pride. We have done so much to help our adopted country as law abiding immigrants and citizens of this great land. We participate in politics, in government in business, in the military, as teachers, as police and firefighters, as engineers, lawyers and as volunteers to help the needy,” Nijem said.

“We have much to be proud about as a community and we want to bring that entire community together.”

During the past year, the American Arab Chamber of Commerce has been on the front line fighting for Arab American rights. The help prevent the closure of more than 22 Arab owned Hookah lounges working with the Chicago City Council to ensure a crackdown on flavored tobacco sales to minors did not close the businesses. City Council members said they had not considered the impact the ordinance would have on the hookah lounges which are only frequented by adult patrons.

In 2018, the American Arab Chamber of Commerce was one of five Illinois Arab organizations to convince the State of Illinois to designate April as Arab American Heritage Month to put it in sync with other Arab community celebrations in other states.

Last year, the American Arab Chamber of Commerce led the fight to stop Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot from closing more than 150 Arab owned retail stores in Chicago. After the Chamber organized several press conferences to raise th eissue, Lightfoot backed down and the stores were re-opened.

And, working with Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, the American Arab Chamber of Commerce organized a dozen property tax workshops to help identify property tax overpayments by Arab American businesses, homeowners and religious institutions including Mosques and churches. More than $1.5 million in property tax overpayments were identified and returned to Arab American property tax owners in Cook County.

“When we are unified, we can be successful,” Nijem said. “All it takes is for the community to work together to get things done.”

Nijem thanked the members of the Chamber board for their leadership and their support. They are:

Aminah Adnan Aldeek
Associate Director

Tareq Al Biter
Senior Advisor

Amir Nijem
Secretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mohammed Abdullah
Hana Abudayyeh
Radi Abuhashish

Abed Ayash
Mazen Dolah
Ibrahim Fattah
Monique Hoffman

Mahar Khattab
Samer Khatib
Saad Malley
Lena Matariyeh

Amna Mustafa
Amir Nijem
Mohammad Taher

HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD

Nemer Ziyad
CEO, Ziyad Brothers Importing

Ray Hanania
President CEO Urban Strategies Group Media Relations

For more information on the American Arab Chamber of Commerce and the Arab Heritage Dinner on March 30, 2022 at Aladdin Banquets in Hickory Hills, visit the chamber’s website at www.AACCUSA.org.

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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.

Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.

Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.

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