نابا: الجمعيه الوطنيه للبريطانيين العرب. NABA -The National Association of British Arabs

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مرحبا بكم فى موقع الجمعيه الوطنيه للبريطانيين العرب

Liverpool Arab Festival 2012		click to enlarge
A call to participate in an online questionnaire on mental health by UCH. British Arabs attitude to mental health. Please press the link below: www.surveymonkey.com/s/uclsurvey8 If you are unable to place the required ticks from this link, please copy it and paste on yur browser.
the upcoming April oud/percussion tour of DoubleDuo. The London date is 29 April, 20:00 at Union Chapel: http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/events.php?gig=739fe645-0405-43b2-aab5-873f4e52e0c8. It's featuring Khyam Allami, a London-based Iraqi oud player and Palestinian oud musician Ahmad Al-Khatib, along with a Palestinian percussionist, Youssef Hbeisch, and Italian frame drummer, Andrea Piccioni. More details here: http://www.doubleduo.net/
Classic Arabic Speaking Children: a call from Twenty Twenty *Message from Mark Usher - works for the television production company Twenty Twenty.*
Arabs and Arabic-Speakers in the UK Arabs and Arabic Speaking British subjects have been recognised as an ethnic group in their own right in the 2011 census. Following work done over the past three years by NABA, it is proposed (pending Parliament's approval) that there will be a separate box in the ethnicity section of the 2011 Census form for 'Arabs'. This means that Arabs will no longer need to identify themselves as 'Other' in the ethnicity section. NABA's efforts over the past few years to achieve the recognition of ' Arabs' and Arabic speaking people as a separate entity within the ethnic profile question has finally borne fruit and should now open the way for this to be duplicated in other official formats. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the hard work of our secretary, Cllr Mrs Maureen Jalili who represented NABA on the Special Advisory Committee set up by the ONS (Office of National Statistics). NABA now calls upon all interested organisations, community groups and media to help in promoting this to their members / audiences and support Arabic speaking people in explaining the new Census form and spread the message to encourage Arabs and Arabic speaking people to use this facility in 2011. NABA has worked for the past five years to ensure that 'Arab' is now classified under the ethnicity section. This is to ensure that Arabs are counted in the UK as a separate entity. This also means that once it has been included in the Census, it should then start to appear on other ethnicity forms. It also means that we can make the knowledge we gain on numbers of Arabs in the UK for the planning of health, education, employment etc.
Message fro Liverpool Arab Festival Liverpool Arab Festival
You can contact NABA administration: admin@naba.org.uk media@naba.org.uk or News@britisharabs.org.uk
Studies Study on the Arab in the UK by Faisal Al-Yafai (pdf file) Seminar for Arabian Studies July 2010 click link
Festivals & Events Click here for more events
Volunteers are needed to support NABA's website. This ranges from editing various sections such as 'articles', 'Art & Culture', 'Events' to simply adding the odd news of Arabic speakers related issues.

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