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Ilitches to build new business school for Wayne State
October 30th, 20150 DETROIT — A $40-million Wayne State University business school named after Mike Ilitch will be built near the Red Wings new arena. It is part of a string of projects funded by the billionaire’s family to expand the area near the city’s midtown. The new Mike Ilitch School of Business will be constructed at the southwest...
Dearborn recognized as five-star economic hub
October 30th, 20150 DEARBORN — The city has been recognized as a hub for entrepreneurial growth and economic development for the fifth consecutive year. The annual eCities study conducted by researchers at iLabs, University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research, gave Dearborn the distinction. Dearborn was one of 19 communities...
Several Dearborn residents reacquire tax-foreclosed homes from city
October 30th, 20150 Dearborn City Council listens to a petitioner, Oct. 26DEARBORN — Sultana Saleh's father died in car accident three months ago. Her husband was murdered in 2007. Her circumstances grew even more difficult when the city purchased her tax-foreclosed house from Wayne County.Saleh knows little English and was not aware of her property tax...Confronting the obvious truth: Palestinian Authority vs. the People
"The PA has morphed to become a security arm that served as a first line of defense for the Israeli army."Saeb Erekat is an enigmatic character. Despite minimal popularity among Palestinians, he is omnipresent, appears regularly on television and speaks with the moral authority of an accomplished leader whose legacy is rife with...Saudi-led air strike kills 10 Yemeni factory workers
SANAA — Warplanes from a Saudi-led military coalition bombed a bus carrying workers to a factory in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz on Thursday, killing 10 of them, medics said. The attack took place as battles for control of Yemen's third-largest city rage, with Gulf Arab countries backing local Islamist militias against the...Right wing Israelis push for takeover of Al-Aqsa compound
Since Oct. 1, Israeli forces or settlers have killed 66 Palestinians.JERUSALEM — Right-wing political leaders and groups have called for Israel to exercise control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as the Israeli government takes harsh measures to quell ongoing Palestinian unrest. Returning to the Mount, a hardline right-wing...
A pattern of rejecting Islamic institutes; Feds sue Pittsfield Township
October 30th, 20150 MIA's location in Ann Arbor. DETROIT — The Justice Department announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Pittsfield Charter Township, alleging that it denied an Islamic academy a permit to build a school on a vacant land. The Michigan chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) originally brought the case...
Unjust deportations still a reality for some Arab Americans
October 30th, 20150 DEARBORN — Many Arab immigrants say they still face unjust deportation and restrictive citizenship opportunities, even after President Obama's executive action on immigration. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services makes it clear that aliens— those who are non-native and non-naturalized citizens— are subject to...Homeowners must pay taxes, but government should make it simpler
A petitioner addressing Dearborn City CouncilOwning a home is a part of realizing the "American Dream." It is an immense responsibility and a great opportunity. The security a home provides and prosperity it symbolizes come at a cost. Homeowners must make their mortgage payments, maintain their properties and pay their taxes.Residents...
You should vote on Tuesday
October 29th, 20150 Dave Abdallah is a trusted community leader who can improve Dearborn HeightsArab Americans are growing in numbers and business power across Metro Detroit. Although many local Arabs are first-generation immigrants, our roots run deep here. Michigan is our home. To fortify our presence and safeguard our interests, we should engage in...
Court of appeals rules for anti-Muslim protestors at Arab festival
October 29th, 20150 CINCINNATI — The Christian evangelists who marched around Dearborn with a pig’s head on a pole and told Muslims they would "burn in hell" were within their rights under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a California group of Christian...Death toll in Saudi Hajj disaster more than 2,000
Pilgrims on a road in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca Sept. 24. REUTERSThe deadly crush that occurred during the Hajj near Mecca last month killed at least 2,070 people, nearly triple the number reported by Saudi authorities, a Reuters tally indicated on Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under heavy criticism for its handling of...Bernie Sanders invites Muslim student to the stage, attacks racism
"If we stand for anything, we have got to stand together and end all forms of racism."FAIRFAX, Va— Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders brought a Muslim student to the stage during a speech in Fairfax, Virginia to highlight the divisive history behind bigotry and racism.The student had told Sanders that the...
Palestinian activists slam WXYZ for report on “America First” billboard
October 28th, 20150 "Somebody is saying America First, not Israel, in terms of spending money, in terms of priorities, in terms of policy."DETROIT — "America first," reads a billboard on Eight Mile Road in Detroit. "Not Israel.""Is it meant to be anti-Semitic or something else entirely?" asked WXYZ reporters in a segment on Thursday, Oct....Sheriff fires officer who dragged female student across classroom
A screengrab from a video of the incident RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. — School resource officer Ben Fields, who slammed and dragged a female student in a Spring Valley High School classroom Monday, has been fired after videos of the incident went viral. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday he fired Fields following an......
Ilitches to build new business school for Wayne State
October 28th, 20150 Photo: Wanye State University DETROIT — A $40-million Wayne State University business school named after Mike Ilitch will be built near the Red Wings arena. It is part of a string of projects funded by the billionaire Ilitches to expand the area near the city’s downtown. The new Mike Ilitch School of Business will be...
Walmart takes down Israeli soldier costume after outrage
October 28th, 20150 "This is a symbol of militarism, of oppression, of apartheid."DEARBORN — Walmart took down the page for a children’s Israeli soldier Halloween costume after outrage from the Arab American community and Palestinian solidarity activists. The costume, which made international headlines, features a red beret, a plastic gun and a......
Yemeni hospital bombed, Saudi-led coalition denies responsibility
People move boxes from a damaged truck outside a building hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa, Oct. 25.A hospital in north Yemen run by the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), was destroyed by a missile strike late Monday, MSF said.The Saudi-led Arab coalition involved in Yemen’s civil war denied that its planes hit...Saudi prince held in record Beirut airport drug bust
The five Saudi citizens were held in the airport to be questioned by Lebanon's customs authority A Saudi prince and has been detained in Lebanon in the largest drug bust in the history of Beirut airport, according to a security source. Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four others were detained by airport security...Police arrest suspect in Divine Child High School shooting threat
"While there is no information to believe that this was anything more than a threat we will spare no resource or effort to ensure the safety of our community."DEARBORN ― Lincoln Charter Township police arrested a man suspected to have sent an email early Monday morning threatening to shoot up Divine Child High School.Police said they...
Court of Appeals rules in favor of complaint against No-Fly List
October 26th, 20150 Mokdad with Ayad announcing the lawsuit in 2013CINCINNATI — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that the federal district court should consider a legal complaint against the No-Fly List.The appellate court issued a published opinion in favor of Saeb Mokdad, a concert promoter who sued the federal government......
Man stabs, slashes two Detroit emergency medical technicians
Photo: Wayne County 36th District CourtDETROIT― A man stabbed and slashed two emergency medical technicians across the face with a box cutter when they responded to an emergency call early last Tuesday near downtown Detroit, a city spokesman said.The EMTs, a man and woman, were responding to a report of a woman with an injured ankle...One dead in suicide attack at Saudi mosque
The bombing took place in Najran, the capital of the region in southern Saudi ArabiaA suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'a mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday. At least one person was killed and several others were wounded, the Saudi interior ministry said.The SPA news agency and Al Arabiya television delivered the......
Dearborn mourns the loss of Michael Berry
October 25th, 20150 DEARBORN - The namesake of the Michael Berry Career Center passed away on Saturday, October 24.Michael Berry graduated from Fordson High in 1938. He went on to graduate from Fordson Junior College and Wayne College, before earning his law degree from MSU College of Law.He became the first Muslim lawyer of Arab decent to practice law in...
Presidential candidate O’Malley on refugees: We can lead the world with compassion
October 23rd, 20150 Martin O'Malley with refugees from Syria and Iraq Photo: Merinda Valley"Assalamu allaykum; marhaba; kif halkum?" Peace be upon you; hello; how are you? Presidential candidate Martin O'Malley greeted a crowd at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in Arabic, and went on to condemn xenophobia and Islamophobia, which he said are......
