; Whereas Arab Americans have and continue to play a critical role in America’s social justice and human rights movements, such as the civil rights, labor organizing, and environmental justice movements; Whereas recently Arab Americans’ activism continues to play a key role in present day struggles for social justice and human rights such as the movement for Black lives, the ceasefire movement to end the genocide of Palestinians, and many more; Whereas Arab Americans have excelled in science, engineering, medicine, education, scholarship, and architecture, including— (1) organic chemist Elias James Corey (Nobel Prize 1990); (2) Ahmed Zewail, a chemist investigating transition reactions (Nobel Prize 1999); (3) Mostafa El-Sayed, a chemical physicist and leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a United States National Medal of Science laureate who sat on the President’s National Medal of Science Committee in 2014; (4) Dr. Farouk El-Baz, a pioneer in space photography; and (5) Dr. Michael DeBakey, a cardiovascular surgeon and inventor of ventricular assist devices and aorta repair procedures; Whereas, in 1959, Mohamed Atalla, an Egyptian-American engineer who was an important pioneer and contributor to the early field of modern electronics, invented the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, which is the most-frequently manufactured device in history and hailed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office as one of the most important inventions in electronics; Whereas Arab Americans have excelled in sports, like quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie, and in entertainment, including actors, singers, comedians, and musicians such as actor, singer, and founder of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Danny Thomas, Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub, comedian, and commentator Dean Obeidallah, gifted musician Dr. Ali Jihad Racy, award-winning violinist Simon Shaheen, and so many others