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Lebanese Americans celebrate Liberation Day
May 27th, 20160 Community activists at the Liberation Day celebrationDEARBORN — Amal Movement in the United States, Message of Hope USA, celebrated the 16th anniversary of liberating south Lebanon from the Israeli occupation on Wednesday. Israeli forces occupied swathes of south Lebanon from 1982 until 2000. The Israeli army was driven out of...
ESL program helps immigrant youth become tomorrow’s leaders
May 27th, 20160 ESL students speak up at Crestwood School District meeting, May 24 - Photo by The Arab American NewsDEARBORN HEIGHTS — Mina Aldayyeni's least favorite class in eighth grade was gym. She was bullied, always picked last in sports and had no friends. One time, she found herself crying on the locker room floor, surrounded by her...
Arab Americans claim police brutality in Dearborn Heights
May 27th, 20160 A local woman gets arrested in front of her home.DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Arab American community has reached a boiling point with the Dearborn Heights Police Department following a number of incidents where residents claim they were arrested without justification. This week, a video circulated on social media showing a local Arab...
Americans are helping eight million people break this bad law
May 27th, 20160 Last week immigrants, their families and legal advocates rallied outside the Supreme Court as eight justices heard oral arguments in United States v. Texas, an immigration case concerning the Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program, which would have offered deferred...
Dearborn parents slam “explicit” sex ed curriculum
May 27th, 20160 DEARBORN — While some of city's public school teachers have recently called for a more comprehensive sex education curriculum, some parents have expressed outrage over "explicit" lessons taught in class. A local mother of a 15-year-old ninth grade student at Fordson High School, said her daughter and other classmates walked out of...
Airport screening made 70,000 miss American Airlines flights this year
May 26th, 20160 NEW YORK - Airport screening delays have caused more than 70,000 American Airlines customers and 40,000 checked bags to miss their flights this year, an executive for the airline told a U.S. congressional subcommittee on Thursday. A shortage of staff and a surge in air travelers have created a nightmare...
Clinton faces major setback with Email scandal
May 26th, 20160 WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval for her work as U.S. secretary of state, an internal government watchdog said on Wednesday. The long-awaited report by the State Department inspector general was the first official audit of the controversial...
Trump agrees to debate Sanders, after Clinton declines
May 26th, 20160 LOS ANGELES - Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders on Thursday explored staging an unconventional U.S. presidential debate in California that would sideline Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. The two men -- a billionaire and a democratic socialist -- expressed interest in a televised...
Authentic? — Arabic food evolving locally
May 26th, 20161 Chef Taher JaberDEARBORN — Do you get angry when your White friends add hummus where it doesn’t belong or use it as a dip for their chips?I do. I have often wondered if my draconian approach to Arabic food is irrational. Who is to say where hummus belongs? It is harmless if someone enjoys it with pizza or rice. But the...
Dearborn Board well represented at the National Association of Realtors
May 26th, 20160 Michigan Realtors meeting with Senator PetersWASHINGTON — From May 9 to May 14, the National Association of Realtors held its annual legislative meetings and expo, with the Dearborn Area Board of Realtors well represented. Sam Baydoun, the 2016 president of the organization, attended many of the legislative meetings along with...
High school cancels ‘Hijab Day’ after flood of complaints
May 26th, 20160 BOSTON - Students from the Arabic Club at Medford High in the city of Medford, about a 15-minute drive north of downtown Boston, planned a “World Hijab Day” early this semester. The annual event was created to promote awareness and understanding of Muslim women who wear the headscarf as an expression of their...
Graduation Day: Hanan Yahya
May 26th, 20160 Hanan Yahya, a recent University of Michigan-Ann Arbor graduate, is the second of nine siblings to earn a college degree and daughter of immigrants with no formal education. To her, education is more than sitting in a classroom for hours on end and struggling her way through homework. She said education helped her find herself and...
Annual Jewish pilgrimage starts in Tunisia
May 26th, 20160 TUNIS — An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue started Wednesday in Tunisia where security forces were deployed heavily to ward off potential terrorist attacks.Small groups of pilgrims including families with children began arriving in the searing heat at the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba in...
Chain restaurants required to post calorie counts by May 2017
May 26th, 20160 WASHINGTON — Restaurant owners will have an extra five months to post the calorie counts of the food they sell under a new federal deadline of May 5, 2017. The national calorie disclosure rule is part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as Obamacare and aims to help consumers battle the bulge since Americans eat and drink...
City manager resigns after asking staff to map Muslims in the area
May 26th, 20160 WASHINGTON - A former city manager in Washington state wanted to map out the exact locations in which Muslim residents lived over terrorism concerns, according to an independent investigation. The inquiry into James “Donny” Payne was conducted after a complaint about his behavior while he was interim manager for the city of SeaTac......
Dearborn to extend hookah lounge curfew during Ramadan
May 25th, 20160 Sky Lounge on Warren Ave. DEARBORN — Customers looking to spend their summer nights enjoying a hookah until the early morning may need to go elsewhere, as the city has begun to enforce a strict 2 a.m. curfew for all Dearborn hookah lounges.The hookah lounge ordinance implemented last year forbids businesses from operating between 2...
Detroit anti-crime initiative expands, Duggan wants more businesses to join
May 25th, 20160 City officials and business leaders laud Project Green Light, May 23DETROIT — Project Green Light, the crime-fighting initiative streaming live footage to the police from businesses that stay open late, is working, Mayor Mike Duggan said Monday.Duggan added that the program has succeeded in significantly decreasing violent crime at......
Top Shi’a cleric urges restraint in assault on Iraq’s Falluja
May 25th, 20160 Iraqi federal police advance with paramilitary fighters towards Falluja, May 24BAGHDAD — Iraq's top Shi'a Muslim cleric urged government forces battling to retake Falluja from ISIS militants to spare civilians trapped in the city on Baghdad's western approaches.Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's appeal reflected concerns that a large...New York man arrested for ‘providing support to Islamic State’
NEW YORK - A former plumbing assistant from New York City was arrested on Tuesday and charged with providing material support to Islamic State by trying to help an undercover law enforcement official travel to Syria to fight with the militant group. Sajmir Alimehmeti, a 22-year-old from the Bronx borough, was charged in a criminal...
Father of Lebanese soldier killed by Nusra admits revenge murder on TV
May 24th, 20160 The body of Hussein Hujairi, showing signs of torture, in a photo circulated by Lebanese mediaBEIRUT — The father of a Lebanese soldier kidnapped and killed by al-Qaeda's Syrian wing said on television on Tuesday that he had killed the nephew of a man he accused of being involved in the murder and had dumped the body near his son's...
Bombs kill nearly 150 in coastal Syrian cities
May 24th, 20160 Syrians inspect the damage after explosions hit Tartous. Photo: SANADAMASCUS — Bombs killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coast on Monday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said.ISIS claimed responsibility for......
ISIS suicide bombing kills 40 army recruits in Aden
May 24th, 20160 The site of the suicide bombing in Aden, May 23. Photo: ReutersADEN — A suicide car bombing claimed by ISIS killed at least 40 Yemeni army recruits and wounded 60 in the southern city of Aden on Monday, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks yet on government interests.The attack occurred as the recruits lined up to enlist...
Republican senator apologizes to Muslims from deathbed
May 20th, 20160 UTAH - Bob Bennett, a former Republican senator from Utah who died earlier this month after suffering with pancreatic cancer , spent his final days of life reaching out to Muslims at his hospital and apologizing for Donald Trump. He reportedly asked his wife and his son Jim from his deathbed, “Are there any Muslims in the......
Dr. Ola: Syrian American graduates from medical school at 21
May 20th, 20160 Ola Hadaya with her parentsDETROIT — It is said that all Arab parents want their children to be doctors.To deflect their families’ wishes, high school graduates sometimes complain that do not want to spend their youth on a college campus. Ola Hadaya did not have this problem. She graduated from Wayne State University with a medical...
Sykes-Picot, 100 years later: Redrawing the maps
May 20th, 20160 A map of Iraq and Syria showing flags of warring sidesA century has passed since the Sykes-Picot Agreement was struck. The geopolitical madness in the Middle East indicates that the region is heading toward more fragmentation. The 100-year-old plan to control the Arab world is still at work to divide what has already been......
