GMU’s Core Curriculum committee has recently approved a new Arabic class to meet the University’s core requirement for Literature. The course, created by Dr. Naglaa M. Hussein, is designed to highlight the minorities’ contribution to national discourse. Black artists, for instance, participated in the making of the dominant narrative of the Arab nations. In the Arabian Peninsula, the poetry of the black fighter Antra is no less eloquent than that of Shakespeare. In Iraq, the Zanj rebellion is masterpiece in anti-discrimination movement during Abbasid caliphate. This course sheds light on prominent Arab writers, poets, singers, politicians, and artists who took pride in highlighting their affiliations to minor groups in their tribes and communities. From Blacks in the Arabian Peninsula to Nubians in Egypt, to Ethiopians and Jews in Israel /Palestine, Amazigh in Morocco, and the Arabs in South Sudan, students will read poetry, watch films, and discuss minorities’ contributions to the cultural production of Arab world.