Community Empowered Research
Improving the Wellbeing of Arab and MENA Communities
Facilitating and Sharing Research
Adopting an Interdisciplinary Approach
Who We Are?
The Center for Arab Narratives (CAN) is a new institution of ACCESS, the largest Arab American community non-profit in the country. CAN launched in 2021 and offers an interdisciplinary approach to improving the wellbeing of Arab American communities, by facilitating and sharing community-empowered research.
What We Do?
Recognize the vital role of the community in shaping research
Bridge perspectives from humanities and public health
Pursue high quality, accurate, and representative data on Arab and MENA populations
Make research relevant beyond academic walls
Build, convene, and maintain interdisciplinary research networks, including our nationalcohort of scholarly Affiliates
Offer research-based informed perspectives on the Arab American experience to media,policymakers, community groups, and other audiences
Featured Narratives
We bring cutting-edge research to the Arab and MENA communities through our growing web platforms. We partner researchers with the community to advance scholarship. We make research accessible to everyone.