The Arab American News
Author's Posts
Texas state advocates anti-sanctuary bill
February 10th, 20170 Senate bill 4, a legislation that would punish local and state government and college entities that refuse to comply with federal immigration officials laws or requests. The bill, pushed by Texas state Sen. Charles Perry received its approval from the Republican controlled Texas Senate on Wednesday. The vote projected a 20-10...
New Senate bill would designate, punish organizations deemed to be affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood
February 10th, 20170 The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, now pending in Congress, is a new piece of legislation following in step with Trump’s travel ban. Introduced in January by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the act is intended to “protect against the violent jihad carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates both in the United States and in...
Arab American lawmakers push back against discriminatory Michigan bills
February 10th, 20170 Julia Kassem The Arab American News LANSING— In response to the growing tide of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim legislation put forth by Donald Trump’s executive orders, Michigan legislators have pushed forth— as well as against— legislation pertaining to Trump’s immigration ban and assault on sanctuary cities. Arab...
Confronting the culture of conspiracy
February 10th, 20171 By Julia Kassem The Arab American News DEARBORN— While the United States faces a battle with fake news that reflects the misinformed vitriol definitive of the political climate, the Arab world has faced its share of ongoing problems of politicized and polemical misinformation. The irony is that such false information,...
U.S. appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban
February 9th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO ― A federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld a temporary suspension of President Donald Trump's order that restricted travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in a challenge to Trump's order filed by the states of Washington and Minnesota. The U.S....
ACCESS hosts emergency town hall to fight Trump’s Muslim ban
February 3rd, 20171 DEARBORN—On Wednesday, ACCESS’s Take on Hate campaign organized an emergency town hall in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration. The event, originally scheduled for the Arab American National Museum, had to be moved to the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center to accommodate the unexpectedly large...
Pushing for sanctuary cities amidst institutional racism
February 2nd, 20170 By Julia Kassem The Arab American News Detroit is poised in a peculiar position. In 2014, it became a “welcoming city”, joining 40 other cities across the country, such as Boston, Los Angeles and Boise, in adopting the voluntary designation. 2014 was also the year Flint began to face the contamination of its water supply...
Does protesting work?
February 2nd, 20170 Does protest work? By Julia Kassem The Arab American News Street protests are all the rage these days. They're also displays of a lot of rage. Demonstrations, marches and the like never had a chance to become passe in systems of power unmitigated by oppression and wealth disparity. Protest entered the Western discourse...
Attack on Quebec City mosque leaves five dead
January 29th, 20170 Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center. Police put up a security perimeter around the mosque. Quebec police confirmed the shooting at a Quebec mosque in a tweet, and police on the scene said there had been fatalities. "There are many...
Highlights of Trump’s first week in office
January 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON D.C. - On Tuesday, Trump signed orders reviving the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, rolling back Obama’s executive actions to halt further construction on the pipeline. Applauding Trump’s order was the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s president, Ron Ness, who said, “We think this is a...
Trump disregards boundaries, bullies neighbors during first week
January 29th, 20170 President Trump's inauguration— connoting hostility, invoking fear and uncompromising in its rhetoric— paled in comparison to President Obama's in size, strength and substance. Yet, it paved the way for Trump to carry out more austere executive actions in six days than Obama had in passing reasonable and —at times – relatively...
LAHC declines CVE grant
January 29th, 20171 DEARBORN- After the Department of Homeland Security awarded Dearborn’s Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities a Countering Violence Extremism (CVE) grant, the group ended up declining it Thursday night, according to a press release. The community group sought funding for existing programs, focused on youth development,...
Arab American joins WXYZ-TV as anchor/reporter
January 29th, 20171 SOUTHFIELD – Born and raised in Detroit, Ameera David has returned to her hometown to work at WXYZ/WMYD as a 7 Action News anchor/reporter after hosting “Boom Bust,” RT America’s flagship financial news program, headquartered in Washington D.C. The show airs daily and is broadcast to 700 million homes in over 100...
Henry Ford Museum officially changes name
January 29th, 20170 DEARBORN - On Monday, the Dearborn tourist destination The Henry Ford announced that it will change the name of the Henry Ford Museum to Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. “Henry Ford Museum has always been about ideas and innovations that changed the world,” Moordian said. “We believe adding the word innovation to...
Warren city officials call on Fouts to investigate himself
January 29th, 20170 WARREN — On Tuesday, Warren City Council called for its battered mayor to inspect the recordings that appeared in the past month of him or someone else disparaging disabled people, older women and African Americans. The plan passed 4-3 and asks the mayor to use state and local agencies to help him find the source and verify the......
Exhibit showcasing inventions from Islam’s Golden Age coming to Detroit
January 29th, 20170 DEARBORN —A local group is working on bringing an exhibit called "1001 Inventions" to the Michigan Science Center in Detroit this fall, in collaboration with several Arab American organizations. These local organizations and businesses are lending a helping hand to complete the necessary funding to bring this traveling 15,000 square...
Women’s group to hold third annual networking event
January 29th, 20170 DEARBORN - On Thursday Feb. 2, the Arab American Women’s Business Council will teach community professionals the art of networking and give them the opportunity to catapult their businesses or careers at their annual Speed Networking Event. “This is the 3rd Annual AAWBC Speed Networking Event and we normally get between 30-50......
Gaza’s water shortage worsening
January 29th, 20170
Libyan authorities suspect rival military backers in car bomb blast
January 29th, 20170 TRIPOLI ― A counter-terrorism unit in the Libyan capital Tripoli said it suspected a car bomb that went off on Saturday near the Italian embassy was planted by backers of a rival force in the divided country's east. The blast occurred in central Tripoli about 400 yards from the recently reopened embassy. The bodies of two men were...
Unpaid government workers deepen economic pain in Yemen’s war
January 29th, 20172 SANAA ― Already suffering grievously under nearly two years of civil war, many thousands of Yemeni state workers now face destitution as their salaries have gone largely unpaid for months. The immediate reason is a decision by the internationally-recognized government to shift Yemen's central bank out of Sanaa, the capital city...
Astana peace talks make way for Syrian truce
January 29th, 20170 ASTANA ― Syria's warring sides met for their first talks in nine months on Monday, with their Russian and Turkish backers pushing to cement a ceasefire that could pave the way for political talks. The meeting in the Kazakh capital comes at a time when Turkey, which backs the rebels, and Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar......
Israel completes testing of missile interceptor
January 29th, 20170 TEL AViV ― Israel has completed successful tests of an advanced version of its 'David's Sling' intermediate missile interceptor system that it is developing jointly with the United States, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The system is designed to shoot down rockets with ranges of 63 to 125 mile) such as those in the arsenal...
Trump says he will ‘absolutely’ order safe zones for Syria
January 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON - Saying Europe had made a tremendous mistake by admitting millions of refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern trouble spots, Trump told ABC News in an interview: "I don't want that to happen here." "I'll absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people," he added, without giving details. According to a document......
Metro Detroit’s DACA immigrants anxious about new administration
By: Julia Kassem DEARBORN— President Obama’s second term ushered in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA), legislation that protected immigrants from deportation by securing resident and immigration rights for children of undocumented immigrant parents. Since DACA was enacted, more than 600,000 young...
Referee makes disturbing comment to Muslim basketball team
January 26th, 20170 MEMPHIS, TN - A basketball coach at the Pleasant View School at the Muslim Community Center in Memphis hoped to teach her students a life lesson after a confrontation with a referee on Sunday night before their game. The referee addressed the crowd, bringing Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir, who is the athletic director at the school, to......
