Nahla Al-Arian on Norway’s Most-Watched Talk Show TAMPA- During the week of February 19, the Al-Arian family traveled to Norway to attend the theatrical premiere of the critically-acclaimed documentary “USA vs Al-Arian”. They were very well received in many places, including the Nobel Peace Center and the Norwegian Parliament. Nahla[Read More…]
During the week of February 18, Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s family visited Oslo, Norway to attend the premiere of “USA vs. Al-Arian,” a critically-acclaimed documentary about Dr. Al-Arian’s case. On the second night of the week-long trip, Amnesty International-Norway held a special screening of the film, followed by a reception at[Read More…]
Tampa BAy Coalition for Justice and Peace The Resolution of Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s Case April 17, 2006 Tampa- As some news outlets have reported, following negotiations between defense and government attorneys that began after last December’s acquittals, there is a resolution in Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s case. At this time, it[Read More…]
Background: Dr. Sami Al-Arian, whose Palestinian parents were forcibly exiled from their homeland in 1948, immigrated to the United States at the age of 17 to pursue higher education. Al-Arian, 50, was a tenured professor of computer science at the University of South Florida until after 9/11, when the school’s administration, at the behest of then-Governor Jeb Bush, attempted to fire him for his outspoken views, work for Palestine, and activism for civil liberties. (For more information on Dr. Al-Arian’s life before his arrest and imprisonment, please click here)
February 1, 2007 TomPaine.com By Sarah Shields Link: Click here Sarah Shields teaches Middle East history at UNC/Chapel Hill. “Has anyone told you that you look like Gandhi?” my companion asked Professor Sami al-Arian. Al-Arian was sitting behind a plastic wall, wearing striped prison clothes and speaking into two telephones.[Read More…]
EXCLUSIVE: Hunger-Striking Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian Speaks Out In First Broadcast Interview of His Four-Year Imprisonment Democracy Now!, February 7, 2007 Link: Click here In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Sami Al-Arian speaks to us from prison where is on a hunger-strike. The Palestinian professor and activist ’s case has been[Read More…]
Truthdig.com, February 11, 2007 By Chris Hedges Link: Click here or here Editor’s note: Despite spending an estimated $80 million, the government was unable to prove that Dr. Sami Al-Arian was a terrorist, yet he remains in prison and his sentence will likely be extended. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges[Read More…]
January 27, 2006 USF Oracle Editorial Link:Click here His lawyers are tired, the American Civil Liberties Union is tired, and most of all, Sami Al-Arian, who has been in jail since February 2003, is tired. After six months of trial in which the jury in Al-Arian’s case found him not[Read More…]
February 20, 2006 USF Oracle by Ryan Blackburn Link:Click here Dozens of local religious leaders, activists and well wishers prayed and sang “We shall overcome” outside Orient Road Jail in Tampa on Sunday. They came to call for the release of former USF professor Sami Al- Arian, who has been[Read More…]
February 20, 2006 St. Petersburg Times By Rick Gershman Link:Click here Protesters at the Orient Road Jail see no reason why the former professor should remain in jail or be retried. TAMPA – Three years after his arrest, and more than two months after a federal trial returned no convictions,[Read More…]
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