Leader of Arab Women’s Group Honored at Borough Hall Dinner [incl. Khalil Gibran International Academy]

BROOKLYN — After being targeted by the media in an attempt to shut down New York’s first Arabic dual-language public school, and after a year of fighting the appropriation of their “Intifada NYC” T-shirt, Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media’s founding director Mona Eldahry was honored by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at an annual Ramadan event.

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In August 2007, AWAAM found itself at the receiving end of a campaign designed to shut down the Khalil Gibran International Academy, New York’s first Arabic-language public school. T-shirts that AWAAM had created to celebrate community empowerment were falsely associated with the founding principal of KGIA, resulting in a dual targeting of KGIA and of AWAAM.

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