About this site
Who publishes this site, how it is edited, and its relationship — or lack of one — to the organisation that previously used this domain.
Who publishes this site
arabculturalcenter.org is an independent editorial site. It is produced by a small desk that commissions and checks everything published here. Pieces are unsigned by design: this is a reference, and the material should stand or fall on whether it is accurate rather than on whose name is attached.
We have been publishing on this domain since 2016.
The relationship to the former non-profit — stated plainly
A non-profit organisation called the Arab Cultural and Community Center operated in the San Francisco Bay Area for a number of years. It ran a cultural festival, a women’s conference, youth programmes, health outreach and civic engagement work. It is no longer active.
This site is not that organisation. It is not affiliated with it, not funded by it, not acting on its behalf, and not a continuation of it in any legal or operational sense. Nobody here can answer for its decisions, access its records, forward correspondence to its former staff, or speak for the communities it served.
The reason we keep pages describing those programmes is narrow and practical. They are still cited — in academic papers on Arab-American community health, in foundation grant reports, in event listings and community directories. Those citations were made in good faith to a working address, and an address that has stopped resolving serves nobody. The pages describe closed activity in the past tense and say on their face that nothing described is currently operating.
The name on the masthead is the domain’s own publishing name, used continuously since 2016 and referenced under it by several hundred external sites. Retiring it would break those references without benefiting anyone. Stating the position clearly, once, seemed the better course.
How the writing is produced
Pieces are written from published sources and checked before publication. Where one relies on a specific study, survey or dataset, it is named in the text or listed in the details rail alongside the article.
Articles are dated and keep the address they were first published at. When something is corrected, the piece is updated rather than replaced, and nothing is pulled for having become dated — quietly deleting what has aged makes a publication harder to trust.
The editorial line is descriptive. We write about cultural practice, and about how that practice is represented elsewhere. We do not campaign, endorse candidates or take positions on the political questions of the region.
Funding, advertising and disclosure
This site carries no advertising, no sponsored placements, no newsletter and no analytics or tracking of any kind. Running costs are covered by the publisher.
One disclosure is owed. The 2018 piece on a NetEnt slot machine themed on Arabian Nights contains two links to an external gambling-industry reference site. Those links were placed when it was written and have been kept. The piece itself is media criticism about how that industry renders Arab imagery, and removing the links would make it impossible for a reader to check the artwork being described. Readers should treat them as what they are: links to a commercial gambling site, in an article that is critical of it.
Corrections and contact
Factual corrections are welcome and are acted on. If something here is wrong, say where and why, and cite what it should say instead — corrections that identify a source are dealt with fastest.
Enquiries reach the editorial desk through the contact page. Correspondence intended for the former non-profit organisation cannot be forwarded, for the reasons set out above.
Questions on this article
Q.01
Is this site the Arab Cultural and Community Center?
No. This site is published by an independent editorial desk. It is not connected to, funded by, or acting for that organisation, and it cannot forward correspondence to it.
Q.02
Why does the site carry that name then?
The domain has been publishing under this name since 2016 and is referenced under it by several hundred external sites. Changing it would break those references. The relationship is stated plainly here instead.
Q.03
Why are there pages about the non-profit’s programmes?
Because academic papers, grant reports and community directories still cite them. Those pages describe closed activity in the past tense so that a citation resolves to an accurate account rather than to an error page.
Q.04
Does the site carry advertising?
It carries no advertising and no tracking. One piece contains links to an external gambling-industry site, placed years ago and kept because the piece is about that site’s treatment of Arabian Nights imagery. It is disclosed below.