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Chaldean, Assyrian, Syriac unity pivotal to survival of Iraqi Christians
May 8th, 20150 Iraqi Christians protesting religious cleansing in Detroit August 2014 during a unity rally where the Chaldean and Assyrian communities of Michigan were asked to unite for the survival of Iraqi's religious minorities.DETROIT — “To the Chaldean and Assyrian community of Michigan, enough with the division,” said Noor Mattr, a young...
Proposal 1 soundly rejected, lack of turnout in Dearborn & Dearborn Heights
May 8th, 20150 DEARBORN — The few voters who turned out at the polls on Tuesday rejected Proposal 1 by a landslide. The proposal, aimed at allocating revenue to fixing the state's roads and bridges by increasing the sales tax by 1 percent, brought out 1.4 million residents to vote against it. Across the state, only 351,000 people voted...
Victims of domestic violence have places to turn for help
May 8th, 20150 DETROIT — Arab American victims of domestic violence are not alone. There are many others in the community also struggling to break the cycle of violence. Victims do not have to fight without support to escape abusive relationships. There are several places victims of domestic violence can turn to throughout metro...Blood drive and used clothing collection exceed goals
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — On Thursday, April 23, Midwest Recycling teamed up with the American Red Cross, Southeastern Michigan Regional Chapter, for a day-long used clothing collection and blood donation drive at Detroit Country Day Upper and Lower Schools. The event exceeded expectations in both the poundage of clothing amassed and pints of...
Police seek public’s assistance identifying man
May 7th, 20150 DEARBORN—The Dearborn Police Department is attempting to identify a man who may have information on the whereabouts of personal property lost at a Kroger supermarket located at Michigan and Greenfield. The man arrived at the Michigan/Greenfield Kroger in a white PT Cruiser on May 2 at approximately...
Man threatens to kill a 7-Eleven clerk because he is Muslim
May 7th, 20150 James TreeTROY — A 53-year-old man allegedly attacked a 7-Eleven clerk and manager in Troy on Friday, May 1, hurling anti-Muslim insults on them, police said.James Tree, Farmington Hills, threatened to kill the clerk while attempting to buy a pack of beer, according to police. The manager ordered Tree to leave the store, but the...
We all have a duty to combat domestic violence
May 6th, 20150 A Dearborn man murdered his wife and committed suicide on Sunday. The ordeal unfolded in front of the couple's children. According to police, the husband was "estranged", but sources who knew the victim said he was abusive during the days of their marriage. Domestic violence is wrong, inexcusable and can turn deadly. We all have a...Lauryn Hill cancels Israel show
HillLOS ANGELES — Singer and songwriter Lauryn Hill is canceling a planned concert in Israel because she was unable to schedule a performance in the Palestinian territories, she announced Monday, May 5.The decision was hailed as a victory by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists, who had launched a campaign urging Hill to...
Texas police shoot dead 2 gunmen at exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons
May 4th, 20150 DALLAS - Texas police killed two gunmen who opened fire at an exhibit of caricatures of Prophet Mohammad organized by an anti-Islamic group, authorities said on Sunday.Sunday's attack took place shortly before 7 p.m. in a parking lot of the Curtis Culwell Center, an indoor arena in the suburb of Garland, northeast of Dallas....
Earthquake felt throughout Michigan
May 2nd, 20150 Kalmazoo- At 12:24 Saturday afternoon, a 4.0 earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey, struck about 5 miles southeast of Galesburg, Michigan, which is just east of Kalamazoo.In metro Detroit, residents have reportedly felt the earthquake as well. There are no immediate reports of damage, and a quake of this size on...
Walsh resigns after controversial remarks on Baltimore riots
May 1st, 20150 WalshDETROIT—Teana Walsh, assistant Wayne County prosecutor resigned today after making controversial remarks about the Baltimore, Maryland riots in a Facebook post. “This afternoon Assistant Prosecutor Teana Walsh called Prosecutor Kym Worthy to announce that she is voluntarily resigning her...
Reporter Robert Fisk discusses career, Syria, ISIS and the media
May 1st, 20150 Robert Fisk speaking to The Arab American News at his hotel in DearbornDEARBORN — The modern history of the Middle East is plagued by war. The books tell us about it, but British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk witnessed it first-hand and his work has contributed to our knowledge of that violent past.His non-conformist reporting has...Egypt sentences 69 to prison for church attack
A church looted and burnt in Egypt during the unrest in 2013.CAIRO — Sixty-nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in Egypt on Wednesday for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013, judicial sources said. The church in the village of Kafr Hakim, near Kerdasa just...Kurds arrest five over bombing outside U.S. consulate in Erbil
Smoke rises from the site of a bomb attack in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, April 17.ERBIL — Kurdish authorities have arrested five men they say carried out a car bombing on behalf of "Islamic State" that killed two people outside the U.S. consulate in their autonomous region of northern Iraq. Four of the men are...Qatar unveils $1 billion environment project
DOHA — Qatar officially unveiled on Tuesday what it said is the world's biggest environmental project, a $1 billion plant to capture wasted gas. The Jetty Boil-Off Gas Recovery Project (JBOG) would capture enough gas to power 175,000 cars per year or 300,000 homes, Qatari officials said. It also allows Qatar, the largest producer......
Rebels advance in northwestern Syria
A rebel fighter raises his weapon, as smoke billows in the background, in the northern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughur, April 25.DAMASCUS — Hard-line Syrian rebel groups seized the strategic town of Jisr Al-Shoughour on Saturday in northwestern Syria, sending government troops fleeing after intense clashes that have seen the opposition...Palestinian shot by Israeli troops dies of wounds
RAMALLAH — A Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank died of his wounds on Tuesday, a hospital official said, the third Palestinian killed in a flare-up of violence over the past week. The Israeli military said soldiers spotted several Palestinians trying to cut through Israel's barrier in the West Bank, near......
Shared battlefield goals trump ideology among Syria rebels, for now
DAMASCUS — Hardline Islamists fighting side-by-side with groups backed by the United States have made gains in northern Syria in recent weeks while showing rare unity, which some fear may be short-lived. An Islamist alliance calling itself Army of Fatah, a reference to the conquests that spread Islam across the Middle East from the...Saudi King reshuffles centers of power
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a close friend of the United States and a scourge of Islamist militants, will be the country's first king from the third generation of its ruling dynasty. King Salman on Wednesday appointed the U.S. favorite and veteran security chief as...Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance
Anti-Black racism, always just beneath the surface of polite racial discourse in the U.S., has exploded in reaction to the resistance of Black youth to another brutal murder by the agents of this racist, settler-colonialist state. With the resistance, the focus shifted from the brutal murder of Freddie Gray and the systematic...Money and politics: We need change now
I’ve seen a lot over my decades in politics, and not much alarms me. But I have to be blunt: Money is poisoning our political system. The people who matter most to a representative democracy — the ordinary voters in whose interests elected politicians are supposed to act — feel as though they’ve become an afterthought in the......
U.S. and Iran seem positioned to strike a deal
Self-serving lawmakers in Washington keep trying to make it impossible for President Obama - and his international partners - to reach a pragmatic agreement with Iran. Fortunately, the momentum for a finalized deal by the end of June looks too strong to reverse. The consequences of these negotiations are huge. Failure to bring the...ACCESS should be commended for this year’s honorees
At its annual banquet in 2014, ACCESS (The Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services) honored former congressman and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as its "Arab American of the Year." The Arab American News, along with many others, criticized this selection. But this year the social services organization made amends......
We endorse proposal 1
After years of the Legislature's incompetence and failure to fix our roads, our lawmakers passed the burden of making a major decision on taxes and infrastructure directly to the voters. Proposal 1, which will be on the ballot in a special election Tuesday, May 5, promises to secure funds to fix our roads after a hike in the sales and...Boston bomber’s lawyers focus on brother’s obsession with Islam
BOSTON — The older brother of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev changed from a roisterous boxer known for flashy outfits into someone with a bushy beard and drab clothes and obsessed with militant Islam, following a trip to Russia in 2012, witnesses said on Tuesday. The testimony before a federal jury in Boston comes as......
