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• Community protests Gaza genocide

• Arab American quarterback to play for Wolverines

• District denies Arabic will be banned at Fordson

• Jewish group selling olive oil to benefit Palestinian farmers

• MLK rally highlights support for Gaza

• Horse trains as guide for blind Arab American woman

• Hajj, Muslim history unfolds in IMAX film

• Community reacts with measured optimism to Obama inauguration

• Dearborn City Council passes Gaza resolution

• Syrian choir to perform in Southfield, sing messages of peace

• Starbucks again a boycott target

• Detroit mayoral forum to address Arab American concerns

• Community to mount billboards in support of Palestine

• State Senator looks to Arab for early support in U.S. Rep. race

• Emergency fundraiser to be held for Gaza

• Muslim group hosts Dutch minister

• CAAO to file complaint against Judge Wygonik

• New citizens take oaths in Dearborn in mass ceremony

• Arab American doctors recognized for major WSU contribution

• Arab American Ebeid named chairman of Guardian Industries

• Fordson HS students gather aid for Gaza

• Detroit mayoral candidates address Arab Americans

• Interim mayor Cockrel wants to bring back jobs

• Former basketball star Bing brings business savy

• CAAO meets with Congress members to push agenda

• Censorship at Edsel Ford High disappoints budding journalists

• Activists oppose state-funded Israeli dance company tour

• Finkelstein to keynote Arab Student Union banquet

• CAAO delegation to visit Qatar, meet Emir

• Three locals charged with mortgage fraud in Dearborn court

• HOPE banquet to feature outspoken advocate Galloway

• Detroit plots green future as its bailout plan

• Dearborn Heights Arab Americans challenge school board incumbents

• Michigan’s jobless rate highest in 25 years

• Michel Aoun representative appears in Troy

• Arab American among state’s top high school wrestlers

• Final Four a winner for Detroit

• Civil rights hearings resume in SMART bus harassment case

• Islamic Center of America hosts new Detroit Archbishop

• Arab, Jewish groups to talk peace

• FBI spying on Michigan Muslims?

• Human rights group honors newspaper

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict debated at local church

• State’s oldest mosque celebrates 70 years

• Lebanese ambassador visits community in Detroit

• Arab students allege discrimination at UM-Dearborn

• Upset victory for Bing in Detroit

• Community leaders meet with federal agencies over surveillance concerns

• NAACP: 100 years of freedom fighting

• Ticket-fixing scam uncovered in Dearborn

• Arab American Attorney honored with Ellis Island award

• Cousins killed in hit-and-run

• Group observes anniversary of Nakba, honors newspaper

• Arab American attorney indicted for motorcycle gang ties

• Palestinian intern in Detroit to tackle homeland water crisis

• Arab Americans meet with Homeland Security Secretary

• CAAO delegation meets with State, Justice Department leaders

• Arab American Bouchard to run for governor in 2010

• Mixed local reactions to Lebanon election

• Mother of hit-and-run victim dies of ‘broken heart’

• Local, national groups send aid to Somalia

• Middle Eastern film directors awarded at festival

• Community bids farewell to first Arab American fire chief

• Record number of Arab Americans on Dearborn election ballot

• Local Arabs, Jews try talking to each other

• Census Bureau looking for local partners

• Former wrestling coach sues Dearborn School, Fordson principal

• Crowded field of candidates, two

• Arab Americans in race for Detroit City Council

• Local family’s relatives evicted in Jerusalem heist

• Arab teen suspected in murder, robbery spree

• Co-founder of iconic Dearborn mosque dies at 98

• Give, but carefully, this Ramadan

• Support needed for Iraqi child’s surgeries

• Ann Arbor student, 16, viciously attacked

• The Arab American News celebrates 25 years

• First Arab American inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

• Students lose school, parents lose thousands in surprise closure of academy

• Michigan poverty rate climbs to 14.4%

• Academics release book on landmark Arab Americans study

• U.S. Commerce Secretary visits with Arab American business community

• YABA celebrates 40-year anniversary

• UM-Dearborn marks 50th Anniversary

• ACC celebrates 30 years

• New Wayne County Sheriff appointed

• Dearborn Heights mayor denies discrimination allegations

• AAPAC rallies voters for Nov. election

• Outrage erupts after killing of imam

• Close race in Arab American’s run for Hamtramck mayor

• Dearborn elections: O’Donnell unseats Thomas, Berry makes School Board

• School funding cuts put education at risk

• Exhibit details growth of Detroit Muslim communities

• U.S. Attorney General keynotes civil rights/law enforcement gathering

• Arab American captures Miss Michigan title

• Groups call for DOJ investigation of FBI raid

• CIA premieres ads directed toward Arabs, Iranians

• Iraqi refugees move to Michigan despite poor economy

• Arab American veterans reflect on Fort Hood attack

• Elected Arab Americans on both sides of oath of office ceremony

• Michigan lawmakers pass smoking ban

National:

• Audacity of hope: Barack Hussein Obama — 44th U.S. President

• Obama names Mitchell Mideast envoy

• Arab arts celebrated in major Washington festival

• Obama’s quick start raises hopes

• Obama signs children’s health bill

• ADC addresses immigration reform on Capitol Hill

• Hampshire College to divest from companies supporting Israeli occupation

• Broad national coalition urges Obama to review position on landmines and cluster bombs

• FBI losing partnership with Arab, Muslim communities

• Arab American shot to death by Miami police

• Bridges TV founder accused of murdering wife

• GM warns it may not survive

• Profiling still plagues Muslim communities

• Arab American appointed to DHS Assistant Secretary

• National Lawyer’s Guild Attorney relates horror of Gaza

• Immigrants face detentions, few rights

• U.S. Muslim coalition considers suspending relations with FBI

• Comedians look to laughs as way to ease tensions

• Motorola drops bomb fuse unit following boycott campaign

• Muslim group seeks release of American journalist in Iran

• Senate report casts grim light on Bush era

• Soldier rampage hints at stress of repeated deployments

• Obama defends Guantanamo closure, Cheney defends torture

• Obama picks first female Hispanic Supreme Court justice

• Holy Land Foundation, AIPAC cases are a travesty of justice

• Arab American defensive takes game to the NFL

• Reuniting Families Act spurs hope

• FBI stands its ground on spying in mosques

• Palestinian legislator Barghouti speaks on the Hill

• GM files bankruptcy

• Clinton addresses ADC convention

• Arab American thespian wins Tony Award

• San Francisco Arab Americans allege police brutality

• Arab Americans testify in Senate on driscimination and hate crimes

• California imam killed in fire, Muslim groups suspicious of hate crime

• For black America, Jackson was an icon who transcended race

• Radio legend Casey Kasem retires

• U.S. leaders asked to address growing Islamophobia

• Black scholar’s arrest raises profiling questions

• Senate approves ‘Cash for Clunkers’ extension

• Fear, racism at health care town hall meetings

• Americans trapped in Gaza hope for way out

• Award-winning Arab American film ‘Amreeka’ in theaters

• Syrian American composer, pianist bridges cultures

• U.S. berated for shielding Israel on Gaza killings

• Imams settle with U.S. Airways in civil rights case

• Loosening of F.B.I. rules stirs privacy concerns

• Innocent post 9/11 detainees get $1.26 million

• Feds seize four mosques, New York skyscraper

• U.S. Muslims feel heat in wake of Fort Hood shootings

• Arab film on Oscar short list

• Pat Robertson: Islam not a religion

• Online group creates ‘Hug an Arab Day’

• Best Buy stands by diversity message

• Arab American enterprenur brings TwitVid to Internet

• Muslims work with FBI on missing men arrested in Pakistan

• Saudi national allegedly stabs Arab American professor

• Store owner turns around life of would-be thief

International:

• Starving Palestinian children found in Gaza rubble

• Israel may face charges for war crimes

• Bush plan made assault on Gaza possible

• Israel shells U.N. headquarters in Gaza

• Turkey PM Erdogan hailed after Davos walkout

• Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza

• No reconciliation for Hamas, Fatah

• Iraq elections dawn on changed political landscape

• Gadhafi elected head of African Union

• Obama may soon have to deal with Netanyahu

• Extremism dominates Israeli polls

• Egypt hinders investigations into Gaza war

• Kerry first American official to visit Gaza after Hamas takeover

• Palestinian factions meet in Cairo

• Ethnic cleansing goes on in Jerusalem

• The Israeli occupation binds together Syria, Iran and the resistance

• Obama visits Turkey, reaches out to Muslims

• Iraq: Pulling out or digging in?

• Iraq shoe thrower sentenced to three years in jail

• Israelis using ‘excessive’ force against protesters

• The Middle East’s first theme park opens in Kuwait

• Al-Maliki draws U.S. troops into crackdown on Sunnis

• British MP Galloway in Dearborn, galvanizes Arab audience

• Sectarian tension on Bahrain’s streets

• Can the United States put pressure on Israel?

• Why Arabs are backing Sudan’s Bashir

• A new kind of war on in Iraq

• Carter Center sends election observation mission to Lebanon

• Storm clouds ahead for Obama and Netanyahu

• Unstable Pakistan threatens the world

• Iran releases jailed U.S. journalist

• Yemen on the brink of war?

• Obama has real chance to change Arab opinion

• Hamas condemns Palestinian cabinet

• Netanyahu up against a new U.S.

• Egypt tycoon gets death penalty for singer’s slaying

• Obama to address world’s Muslims

• West Bank settlements are anathema to the entire world

• Arabs praise Obama speech, await actions

• Lebanese vote for status quo, Washington heaves sigh of relief

• Netanyahu offers a state and a half

• Berri re-elected as Lebanon speaker

• U.S. to name ambassador to Damascus after four years?

• Leap of faith: U.S. troops pull out of Iraqi cities

• Gaza-bound humantarian aid ship seized by Israeli Navy

• How did a single teenage girl survive the Yemenia crash?

• Six reasons why Iran cannot be explained in a Twitter feed

• Amnesty International: Israel used human shields in Gaza

• Israel rejects settlement freeze

• Obama viewed positively but still much criticism of U.S. foreign policy

• Questions remain about the U.S. role in Iraq

• Can America succeed in Afghanistan?

• Israeli soldiers admit war crimes

• U.S. aid convoy reaches beseiged Gaza

• Fatah’s leadership crisis deepens

• Occupation of Iraq continues despite rhetoric

• Woman takes on Sudan’s ‘indecency laws’

• Ahmadinejad sworn in amid protests

• Mass weddings popular in Yemen

• Electricity shortages problematic in Syria

• U.S. stands to lose if peace process stalls

• Shattered in Baghdad blasts: Iraqi faith in security forces

• Embattled Hamas shows its moderate face

• Dutch university fires Islamic scholar Ramadan

• Syria, Iraq and Turkey discuss drought

• Why is development evading the Arabs?

• Iraqi Shi’a religious leader dead after battle with cancer

• Israel evicts Palestinians to the street, moves Israelis into homes

• Swine flu hits Ramadan gatherings

• New settlements plan heightens tensions

• Lebanon’s PM-designate Hariri quits

• Gaza’s water supply near collapse

• U.N. team on war crimes condemns Israel, Hamas

• Qaddafi slams U.N. Security Council

• White House silences Goldstone Report?

• Cairo sinking in garbage

• 4,000 U.S. troops to exit sooner from Iraq. More ready for Afghanistan?

• Muslims make up 25 percent of world population

• Children flee fighting in Yemen

• Rift developing between PA and Fatah

• Lebanese banks flourish as ailing world looks on

• Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water

• Beirut’s Shi’a bastion revives after ‘06 war

• Obama’s outreach to Muslim World teetering

• Lebanon rivals form unity government

• U.N. affirms Israeli-Hamas war crimes report

• Abbas resignation may be a stunt Jerusalem house demolitions go on

• U.S. urged to increase aid and involvement in Yemen

• Palestinian children face daily settler attacks getting to school

• Obama switches gears on Afghanistan

• Dubai debt spreads world panic

• Nasrallah: Sectarianism impeding democracy

• Increased focus and growing pressure on Pakistan