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Iranian Americans: Rich culture, common challenges
Iranian Americans gather at a Taste of Iran event in Detroit.DEARBORN — As local Arab Americans go about their lives, they may or may not be aware of a smaller and equally rooted neighboring community that shares their struggles, but strives to retain its unique identity – Persian Americans. The Arab and Iranian cultures are...
Survey reveals turmoil within Dearborn Police Department
April 29th, 20160 DEARBORN- A survey reported by 7 Action News, is painting an ugly picture of life inside the Dearborn Police Department.The survey was mailed out to 180 officers, lieutenants and sergeants who work for Dearborn police. Of the 180, 124 responded to the 78-page document. 109 members of the department...Michigan House votes to study marijuana limit for drivers
LANSING - Lawmakers are tackling the topic of driving while high. They're aiming to determine how much marijuana is safe in a person's system, while behind the wheel. The House is expected to vote next week to create a commission to research the threshold of THC for driving. Currently, a bill is up...Proposal to turn unfinished Wayne County jail into soccer stadium
DETROIT — Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert and Pistons executive Arn Tellem announced a $1 billion plan to turn Wayne County's unfinished jail site into a project that includes a Major League Soccer stadium. Detroit does not have a team the competes in the MLS. The planned site is essential for Detroit to secure an MLS franchise,...ACCESS honors Flint-area notable Arabs at annual dinner
Ghassan and Manal Saab (c ) with ACCESS officials.DETROIT — ACCESS recognized notable Arab Americans from the Flint area at its 45th annual dinner on Saturday, April 23. The social services organization gave its first "Champion of Justice" award to Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who discovered elevated lead levels in the...
ADC-MI annual MLK banquet calls for unity, end to silence
April 29th, 20160 Dr. Mona Hanna Attisha accepts and award from ADC-MI and friends.DEARBORN — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan's (ADC-MI) 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Banquet reflected on an overwhelming year of hate rhetoric targeting minority groups across the country. The event, held Wednesday,...Local artist wants to present Bible verses in Arabic calligraphy
Fidel Charaf.With religious restrictions on various forms of artistic expressions, including music, sculpting and painting, calligraphy became the Islamic art. The walls, columns and domes of the world's biggest mosques are decorated by skillfully crafted words and sentences. Lebanese American artist Fadel Charaf is presenting bible...Fordson students win state contest, to compete in Boston for nationals
Aya Beydoun and Mariam Makki.DEARBORN — Two Fordson High School seniors won a state contest in Grand Rapids for displaying their Arab American heritage during a broadcast production assignment; and will now be moving forward to a national contest in Boston. Aya Beydoun and Mariam Makki submitted their assignment for the...“Hairspray Jr.” revives performing arts at Dearborn’s public schools
"Hairspray Jr." performed by students from Dearborn Public Schools.DEARBORN — The performing arts are alive and thriving at Dearborn Public schools— a fact made evident by five packed houses at performances of the musical "Hairspray Jr." at Stout Middle School. The one hour and 40 minute spectacle involved the strenuous...
Federal agency to work with Dearborn Police to improve community relations
April 29th, 20160 DEARBORN — It's been a tough few months for the Dearborn Police Department. On top of criticism over the fatal shootings of two African American residents—currently under investigation by Michigan State Police and the Wayne County Prosecutor's office— the department is also facing backlash from the Arab American community...Michigan church’s website hacked with ISIS propoganda
Raheel Siddiqui, of Taylor.WASHINGTON — Following the death of Muslim Marine recruit Private U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell is joining three congress members from California in introducing a bill to require the Pentagon to track and make annual reports on the problem of hazing in the military. Siddiqui, 20, died on March 18,...Superdelegates from the Middle Eastern perspective
Born in Lebanon, raised in Syria and a resident of Gaza and Ramallah as an adult, I covered elections as a journalist. The concept of elections was very simple in my pre-America experience: you go and cast your vote for the person you would like to govern you. But in the United States, I'm discovering, the concept is a lot more...Amal Clooney slams Donald Trump
Amal ClooneyAmal Clooney, the British-Lebanese human rights attorney who has been married to Hollywood actor George Clooney since 2014, says populist GOP frontrunner Trump doesn’t represent “U.S. values.”In a BBC interview, the 38-year-old criticized “the leading candidate on the Republican side” for proposing...Muslim immigrant gives 2,000 employees shares of billion dollar company
Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya.Chobani, the yogurt maker, is giving its workers a stake in the privately held company.The company is offering shares to employees that would amount collectively to 10 percent of Chobani’s future value in the event of a sale or an initial public offering, the Associated Press reported. The...Yemen peace talks resume following world pressure
KUWAIT — Yemen's warring factions agreed on an agenda on Tuesday for U.N.-backed peace negotiations, delegates said, following heavy pressure from world powers.The talks to end fighting between the Iran-allied Houthis and supporters of Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi were launched last week but were......
ISIS turns to selling fish, cars to offset oil losses
BAGHDAD — ISIS earns millions of dollars a month running car dealerships and fish farms in Iraq, making up for lower oil income after its battlefield losses, Iraqi judicial authorities said on Thursday.Security experts once estimated the terrorist group's annual income at $2.9 billion, much of it coming from oil and gas...U.N. council voices alarm at Israeli statements on Golan Heights
Benjamin Netanyahu poses with ministers prior to a cabinet meeting in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, April 17.The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously voiced alarm over Israeli statements about the Golan Heights on Syria's border with Israel, a declaration that elicited a sharp response from......
Iraqi army makes modest advance south of Mosul
BAGHDAD — Iraq's armed forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air power captured a village in Nineveh province from ISIS on Wednesday, the first advance on the northern front since the offensive was paused three weeks ago.Mahana, sitting south of a main east-west road, became just the fourth village seized by the army in the...Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman and brother
PALESTINE - Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian woman and her teenage brother on Wednesday, saying they were armed with knives and tried to carry out an attack at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.Police said the woman, holding a knife, and a man walked rapidly towards police and other Israeli security guards in a...U.N. urges Obama, Putin to save Syria truce
GENEVA — The United Nations mediator on Thursday called on the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to salvage the "barely alive" two-month-old ceasefire in Syria and revitalize the damaged peace process.U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura voiced deep concern at the truce unraveling in Aleppo and at least...Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’
WASHINGTON - More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is "rigged" and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The results echo complaints from Republican front-runner......
FBI would gain new hacking power if search warrant rules change
U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas, under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by May 1. Magistrate judges can normally only order searches within...Boehner calls Cruz ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
John BoehnerFormer House Speaker John Boehner stepped out of retirement on Wednesday to weigh in on the 2016 presidential campaign – and he had no qualms about speaking his mind.Boehner, a Republican who stepped down from his post atop the U.S. House of Representatives in the fall, made a face when asked about Republican presidential......
Florida university faces backlash for “Muslim gun woman” scare
ORLANDO —Several Muslim groups are calling for an investigation and an apology from University of Central Florida police, saying the department was wrong to use the term "Middle Eastern" in early warnings about what was going on at the campus library Tuesday. A social media post about a woman with a gun praying inside...Muslim couple found murdered in California home
SAN JOSE - A community is shocked after a bengali couple was found brutally murdered in their home. The bodies of Golam and Shamima Rabbi were discovered in their home on Sunday. At the brutal crime scene was also a note that said “Sorry, my first kill was clumsy.” The funerals of the San Jose couple might be delayed,......
