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Information on voting in the May 5 special election
April 24th, 20150 DEARBORN – Residents are urged to partake in the special election being held on Tuesday, May 5. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.. The election will determine the outcome of Proposal 1, regarding funding for state roads, as well as revenue for schools and municipalities. In Dearborn, registered voters who qualify for an absentee...
Diversity in American media critical as cultural shift grows
April 24th, 20150 Panelists included (L-R) FOX News investigative reporter, M.L. Elrick; Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News; Chuck Stokes, editorial/public affairs director for WXYZ TV 7; Jackie Headapohi, managing editor, Detroit Jewish Newsand Bankole Thompson, editor of the Michigan...South Carolina teen ‘seduced’ by ISIS sentenced on gun charge
SOUTH CAROLINA — A South Carolina teen, who a prosecutor said was "seduced" by the "Islamic State" group and planned to shoot U.S. soldiers, was sentenced on Tuesday, April 21 to five years in juvenile prison on a gun possession charge, the local Herald newspaper reported. The 16-year-old, who was not named due to his age, had...San Francisco man stuck in Yemen sues State Department for seizing U.S. passport
San Francisco — A San Francisco man filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. Department of State in federal court this week after the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen revoked his passport. He was left stranded in Yemen, seperated from his home and family for 14 months at a time when the State Department...
Muslim father confronts hate protester with message of love
April 22nd, 20150 Dr. Houwari next to the anti-Muslim protester, Ann Arbor, April, 17 ANN ARBOR — Maybe the demonstrator who held an anti-Muslim sign in front of the Islamic Center of Ann Arbor was trying to provoke a negative response to reaffirm her misconceptions about Islam. Instead, she received nothing but love. "I serve a RISEN savior...
Dearborn woman in need of kidney donor
April 22nd, 20150 DEARBORN — resident Zeinab Atwi is in need of a kidney donor. She has been on dialysis for more than 10 years. Atwi has type B blood. A suitable donor may have type B or O blood. She is a student at Dorsey School in Dearborn and plans on pursing a career in the medical field. “She wants to work at...
Former Egyptian President Morsi jailed for 20 years
April 21st, 20150 Morsi in the courtroom CAIRO — Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday on charges arising from the killing of protesters, nearly three years after he became Egypt's first freely elected president.Morsi stood in a cage in court as judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef read out the...Ex-Blackwater guards sentenced to prison in Baghdad killings
WASHINGTON — A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others got 30-year terms on Monday, April 13, in the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, closing a case that had outraged Iraqis and inflamed anti-U.S. sentiment around the world. The Sept. 16 incident...Russia pushes for Syria peace talks to defeat ISIS
DAMASCUS — Latest U.N. efforts to resolve the Syria crisis could succeed this time and lead to a united front against "Islamic State" followed by a political transition, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said. Earlier this week, the United Nations said its Syria envoy would launch fresh consultations with Syrian...Naming and shaming in Yarmouk
Residents of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, Jan. 14.The population of Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camp, Yarmouk — whose population once exceeded 250,000, dwindling throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000 — are a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none...Naming and shaming in Yarmouk
Residents of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, Jan. 14.The population of Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camp, Yarmouk — whose population once exceeded 250,000, dwindling throughout the Syrian civil war to 18,000 — are a microcosm of the story of a whole nation, whose perpetual pain shames us all, none...New Yemeni VP says he hopes to avoid Saudi invasion
ADEN — Yemen's newly-appointed Vice President Khaled Bahah, a widely respected figure named this week to shore up the legitimacy of the exiled Saudi-backed government, said on Thursday he hoped to avert a Saudi-led invasion to restore unity to the country. Arab military exercises planned for Saudi Arabia have raised speculation that...Nusra hails slain Lebanese militant as hero
Osama Mansour.BEIRUT — On Thursday, Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate the Nusra Front mourned Thursday Lebanese militant Osama Mansour, who was killed during a shootout with police in Tripoli last week. In a video tribute posted to the Twitter account of the group's Qalamoun branch, Nusra called the notorious jihadi militant a...Palestinian rams car into bus stop, killing Israeli
Israeli border guards stand near a car that plowed into pedestrians in Jerusalem injuring several people, March 6.JERUSALEM — Police said Thursday a Palestinian whose car struck people at a Jerusalem bus stop, killing an Israeli, appeared to have driven into them deliberately. Police had said earlier it was unclear whether the...Saudi Arabia executes two Indonesian women
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian domestic worker Thursday just days after beheading another woman from that country, prompting the Indonesian foreign ministry to summon the kingdom's ambassador, Jakarta said. Karni binti Medi Tarsim, 37, was convicted of murdering a 4-year-old girl in 2012, according to a statement from......
“Islamic State” clashes with security forces in Iraq’s largest refinery
Iraq’s largest oil refinery near the northern city of Baiji.BAGHDAD — "Islamic State" militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained "very, very dangerous".The insurgents...America’s moral failure: Abandoning U.S. citizens in Yemen
A C-17 aircraft evacuating Indians stranded in Yemen.Thousands of Americans are trapped in war-torn Yemen. But the U.S. government, which is legally mandated to protect and evacuate its citizens from dangerous situations anywhere in the world, is doing nothing to help them. Instead, the Obama administration is delivering weapons to......
Rosa Parks should be the face of the $20 bill
An organization committed to gender equality is demanding that President Obama put a woman on the $20 bill, which currently features Andrew Jackson. Wilma Mankiller, the first elected female chief of the Cherokee nation; civil rights leader Rosa Parks; former first lady and human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt and African American...Hillary Clinton run for presidency, begins campaign trail
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK/ — Hillary Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters. Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was running for...
U.S. Iran bill makes nuclear deal harder, but not impossible
April 17th, 20150 WASHINGTON — A compromise allowing the U.S. Congress to vote on a nuclear deal with Tehran may prompt Iranian negotiators to drive a harder bargain, but does not drastically weaken President Obama's ability to deliver on a final agreement. For months, Obama resisted attempts led by Republicans and some Democrats to open an agreement...
How the paper helped mold the community’s social and political landscape
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN — The Arab American News is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a community dinner at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, on Thursday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. The bilingual (Arabic - English) weekly newspaper is the largest and oldest Arab American publication in the country. "It has been a long, difficult but......
The Armenian genocide: Remembering pain and celebrating survival
April 17th, 20150 Armenian civilians, escorted by armed Ottoman soldiers to a prison, April 1915.DEARBORN — It has been a century since the Ottomans massacred 1.5 million Armenians and drove hundreds of thousands out of their ancestral homeland in what is today Turkey. But 100 years after the tragedy, Armenians are still holding on to the culture and...
Speaker at NRA annual meeting claims “no-go zones” exist in Dearborn
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN — According to a report on thinkprogress.org, during the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee this month, author Steve Tarani said he has witnessed the alleged “no go zones” – areas where police cannot enter— while shadowing a friend who serves on the “Detroit Metro SWAT Police”......
Muslims expected to surpass Jews as second-largest U.S. religious group
Two trends that are already well underway – the decline of Christians and the growth of religiously unaffiliated people as a share of the U.S. population – are expected to continue in the decades ahead, according to the Pew Research Center’s projections of major religious groups around the world. But, if current demographic trends...
Michigan Muslims participate in food drive to honor Chapel Hill victims
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN – Michigan Muslims are taking part in a national food drive campaign entitled “Feed Their Legacy”, created to honor victims of the Feb. 10 Chapel Hill, North Carolina shootings. The victims, Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, were shot execution-style at their home and their neighbor, a......