Arabisto.com aims to become the Drudge Report and Huffington Post of the Middle East. Its mission is to be the leading destination for acculturated Arab Americans on the web providing daily breaking news and commentary on the Middle East.
With an appealing balance of streaming breaking news on the Middle East, blogs, thought provoking political commentary and the only nationwide community calendar, Arabisto.com is the only Arab American news service geared towards this educated, progressive and upwardly mobile population base.
Arabisto.com fills a critical gap for one of the nation’s fastest growing, most dynamic, and arguably least understood population group, estimated at 3.5 million in the United States according to Zogby International and 2000 census figures.
In the Middle East, there are an estimated 18,203,500 Internet users, and between 2000 and 2005, the region witnessed an Internet usage growth rate of 454.2 percent, according to Internet World Statistics.
With no end in sight for the Iraq war, strained relations between Arab states and Israel, a proposed United Nations embargo on Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas maintaining prominent government positions in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories, monitoring developments instantly in the Arab world and understanding the Arab American community is now possible through Arabisto.com.