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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...
Dearborn DPW’s shady work
May 20th, 20160 The alley behind The Arab American News officeNever mess with writers, they say. Journalists and newspapers often act as deterrents to negligence by officials. Hence, we question the wisdom of the city of Dearborn's display of utter incompetence in The Arab American News' backyard. The Department of Public Works has practically blocked......
On Nakba and other catastrophes
May 20th, 20160 A Palestinian boy holds a large cut-out of a key symbolizing the right to return, near the Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem May 14, 2014The 68th anniversary of Nakba on May 15 came at a time when the Arab masses are dealing with their own catastrophic civil war, while the fragmented Palestinian leadership fails to represent the aspirations...
Dearborn public safety members honored by service clubs
May 20th, 20160 Cpl. Bartok, Sgt. Doulette, Commander Robinson, Explorer Post Lt. Hoballah, Chief Haddad.DEARBORN — Two organizations honored members of the Dearborn Police Department for "outstanding" service to the community during National Police Week. The Exchange Club of Dearborn hosted its annual Dearborn Police Awards Luncheon on May 10. In......
Local families face challenges in adopting Syrian refugee orphans
May 20th, 20161 Syrian orphans seeking aid and adoption from foreign families - Photos by SyrianOrphans.orgDEARBORN — As millions of Syrian families suffering the impact of war seek refuge in the West, numerous Arab American families are stepping up to adopt children whose families are nowhere to be found. Maria Kabbani, an international trade...
Detroit approves municipal ID program
May 20th, 20160 DETROIT — The City Council approved a municipal ID initiative, which will help the homeless and undocumented immigrants gain access to city services. To obtain a Michigan ID card, a resident needs a Social Security Number and three documents to prove state residency, legal presence and identity verification. That is too much for...
Gene Hunt aims to bring experience to Dearborn’s court
May 20th, 20160 DEARBORN — If there's a candidate who's familiar with the 19th District Court, it would be Gene Hunt. The longtime Dearborn attorney threw his name into the competitive race in hopes of replacing William C. Hultgren, who will be retiring at the end of the year. Hunt said he decided to run for the position because he knows the...
Graduation Day: Shahad Atiya
May 20th, 20160 Shahad Atiya with her familyShahad Atiya-Wayne State University Law School –juris doctor degree Shahad Atiya, 28, an Iraqi immigrant, has accomplished some noteworthy feats since moving to metro Detroit with her family in 2000. She's since obtained her undergraduate from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in political......
Detroit Public Schools caters to a growing Arab immigrant population
May 20th, 20160 Priest Elementary-Middle School.DETROIT — The Detroit Public Schools System appears to be embracing its growing Arab immigration population with a series of upcoming programs and initiatives aimed at impacting the community's educational needs in coming years. Among the programs include an Arab Dual Language Immersion...
Community honors Lebanon’s security chief in first visit to U.S.
May 20th, 20160 Siblani, Haddad, O'Reilly and Gelios present an award to Ibrahim.DEARBORN — In a country where most institutions are disabled by political bickering and divisions, Lebanese security forces are the most respected and functioning presence in the state. As the general director of national security, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim is one of the......
Evangelicals win Muslims “burn in hell” free speech case
May 20th, 20160 DEARBORN — The evangelical Christian group that protested against Muslims at the Arab American Festival in 2012, chanting Muslims "burn in hell" while holding a pig's head on a pole, won the free speech case on Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed quiet, unwilling to hear the case, which means the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals'...
Muslim Capitol Day draws record participation
May 20th, 20160 LANSING — Last Tuesday, Muslim and Arab Americans met with state legislators for Muslim Capitol Day to discuss issues plaguing their communities and ways the officials could assist in promoting better attitudes toward minority ethnic groups. Dr. Muzammil Ahmed, chair of the Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC), who organized the......
