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Dearborn Public Schools recognize non-teaching staff
June 19th, 20150 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public Schools presented the first-ever Impact Awards recently to honor school district employees who work in roles other than as a classroom teacher and consistently make a positive difference in the lives of students, families and colleagues. Jamall Adora, Zenib Ali, Rola Bazzi-Gates and Shawn Donahue were...
2015 Teacher of the Year Award recipients named
June 19th, 20150 From left: Teacher of the Year winners Samia Fawaz (3rd-5th grades), Sharifah Ahmed (middle school), and Amanda Lichocki (high school). Honoree Seena Ankouni (pre-kindergarten through 2nd grades) is not pictured.DEARBORN — Students, parents, colleagues and community leaders honored four outstanding Dearborn Public Schools teachers on...
Student wrestler ranks 19th overall in the country
June 19th, 20150 DETROIT — Ali Waab, a local 16-year-old high school junior, ranked second in the state and seventh in a national tournament. He has been wrestling for four years. He is ranked 19th overall in the country. In one teen national tournament he went undefeated with a 7-0 record. As he prepares to enter his senior year, his main goal is...
Ethnic and mainstream outlets to collaborate through Detroit Journalism Cooperative
June 19th, 20150 DETROIT — The Detroit Journalism Cooperative, a collaborative formed by five nonprofit media outlets to focus on community life and the city’s future after bankruptcy, will provide fact-based reporting from trusted sources and opportunities for citizen engagement. The DJC includes Bridge Magazine, Detroit Public Television (DPTV),...
Appointments made to Middle Eastern Affairs Commission
June 19th, 20150 Snyder.DETROIT — The newly-formed 15-member Middle Eastern Affairs Commission (MEAC) will act in an advisory capacity to the governor and the director of the Department of Civil Rights. The organization is the successor to the 10-member Michigan Council on Arab and Chaldean American Affairs, created in 2013 to replace the...
Grass in front of Islamic Center cut after residents raise concerns
June 19th, 20150 DEARBORN — Residents raised concerns this week regarding overgrown grass on a median in front of the Islamic Center of America that was estimated to have been between three to four feet high. Following a delayed response from the city and county about getting the grass cut, residents took measures into their own hands in fears...
Arab American leaders rue loss of festival at BRIDGES meeting
June 19th, 20150 DEARBORN — At a BRIDGES meeting on Tuesday, June 18, representatives of the Arab American community rued the loss of the Arab International Festival after successive lawsuits brought by anti-Muslim protesters. Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity (BRIDGES) was formed shortly after 9/11, in an effort to...
State report documents health challenges of Arab community
June 19th, 20150 LANSING — A report by the state of Michigan released last week concluded that Arab Americans face specific health challenges, including lack of healthcare coverage and appropriate cancer screening. Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab American populations nationwide. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services...Snyder signs bill tying truancy to assistance
LANSING — On Thursday, June 11, Gov. Snyder signed into law a state policy that ties cash assistance for families to school attendance. “To break the cycle of poverty, kids need an education to position them for future success,” Snyder said in a statement. “We have to do everything we can to see that they are regularly attending...
Arrests made in Medicare fraud
June 19th, 20150 DETROIT — Federal officials have announced the apprehension of 16 area health officials in what they’re describing as the “largest national Medicare fraud takedown in history.” Officials claim the arrested individuals, including six doctors and a pharmacist, were involved in more than $122 million in kickback schemes and...Israel’s race to economic and moral bankruptcy
Two recent reports suggest that Israel could face catastrophic consequences if it fails to end the mistreatment of Palestinians under its rule, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel itself. The Rand Corporation’s research shows that Israel could lose $250 billion over the next decade if it fails to make peace with the...New York man attacks FBI agent in “Islamic State” tied probe
NEW YORK — A New York City man was arrested on Wednesday after authorities said he tried to stab an FBI agent executing a search warrant in connection with an alleged plot to carry out an attack in support of the militant group "Islamic State." Fareed Mumuni, 21, was charged with attempting to murder a federal officer after...Police identify gunman in south Carolina church attack
Booking photo of Dylann Storm Roof, April 26WASHINGTON — The FBI has identified the gunman in the shooting that killed nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof.An uncle of Roof's said he recognized the man in the surveillance photo as his nephew."The more I look at him, the more I'm convinced,...No more coming in second and winning the presidency
In the history of the United States, four presidential candidates who came in second in the popular vote were “elected” president (John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and George W. Bush in 2000). This inversion of democratic elections was due to the fifty states’...Wayne County Executive asks state to declare financial emergency
DETROIT—In an effort to rid the County of its $52 million structural deficit, Wayne County Executive Warren C. Evans requested an extra measure of support and authority from the State of Michigan. Today Evans delivered a letter to State Treasurer Nick Khouri asking for a declaration of a financial emergency in Wayne......
Suspects tied to Dearborn home invasion arrested
DEARBORN—Dearborn Police responded to the 24000 Block of Dartmouth on a report of a home invasion with multiple shots fired in the home. No one was injured during the incident. With the aide of residents nearby, officers were able to quickly identify the suspects in this case. The suspects were arrested by...
Gov. Rick Snyder makes initial appointments to Middle Eastern American Affairs Commission
June 12th, 20150 LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder today announced initial appointments to the Middle Eastern American Affairs Commission.Established by Executive Order 2015-6, the 15-member commission was created to act in an advisory capacity to the governor and the director of the Department of Civil Rights.“The Middle Eastern American......
ISIS says blows up two warplanes at seized Libyan base
LIBYA — This week the terrorist group "Islamic State" claimed responsibility for blowing up two warplanes at an air base it seized near the central Libyan city of Sirte. The group published pictures on social media that it said showed the destroyed two military aircraft parked in front of a hangar. The Islamist rebel fighters...More than 20 million in war-torn Yemen need humanitarian aid
YEMEN — Eighty percent of Yemen's population, or more than 20 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance as Arab air strikes and civil war ravage the impoverished country, aid agency UNICEF said this week. The figure is up by almost 5 million people since the organization's latest report this month. For...Thousands flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds fight “Islamic state”
TURKEY — Thousands of people fled from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday as moderate rebels and Kurdish forces fought "Islamic State" insurgents holding the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad. The refugees had entered Turkey through a makeshift border crossing overseen by Turkish gendarmerie officers. Many of them were women and...Calls for aid to Syria’s Druze after al-Qaeda kills 20
BEIRUT/AMMAN — Fighters from Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra Front, have killed at least 20 Druze villagers, raising fear for one of Syria's minorities as insurgents, including Sunni Islamists, gain ground against President Bashar al-Assad. Druze in Lebanon and Israel have made separate appeals for their Syrian kin to be armed to......
Reports expose multi-million dollar Islamophobia network
June 12th, 20150 DETROIT — Widely-read reports from the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) expose the multi-million dollar network inciting Islamophobia in the United States. According to CAP’s in-depth investigation, “Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, a...What this world needs is some really honest journalists
Writing about and reporting on the Middle East is not an easy task, especially during these years of turmoil and upheaval. But I cannot remember another time in recent history where we needed journalists to shine, to challenge conventional wisdom, to think in terms of contexts, motives and alliances, not ideological, political or......
We all have a role to play in fighting Islamophobia industry’s influence
A small group of foundations and wealthy donors are funding the multi-million dollar network that fuels Islamophobia in the United States. The network is led by anti-Muslim activists who receive lucrative profit from turning the American public against Muslims and Islam. According to a report from the Center for...American teenager pleads guilty to charges of helping ISIS
WASHINGTON — on Thursday, June 12, a 17-year-old from Virginia pleaded guilty in court to charges of conspiring to help Islamic State militants, the first time the United States has prosecuted a minor as an adult in such a case. Ali Amin, of Manassas, Virginia, used Twitter and his blog to provide instructions on how to use......