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Bill Saad appointed to Underground Storage Tank Authority Board
June 12th, 20150 Saad.WOODHAVEN — Gov. Snyder has appointed Bill Saad, CEO of Michigan Fuels Inc., a leading brand wholesaler for ExxonMobil and Marathon Oil Company, and five others, to the newly created Underground Storage Tank Authority Board (USTAB). Established by Public Act 416 of 2014, the six-member board will oversee the creation of a...Iran envoy declines nuclear transparency measures
VIENNA — On Thursday Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency declined to commit to nuclear transparency measures that were part of a preliminary deal Tehran and world powers reached in April, deflecting U.S. demands to implement such provisions. The United States urged Iran to implement the so-called Additional...
ACC awards 26 scholarships to high school seniors
June 12th, 20150 WEST BLOOMFIELD — During its 13th annual Golf Outing and Scholarship Awards Dinner on June 2, The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) distributed 26 scholarships to high school seniors who plan on attending college this fall. The event took place at the Shenandoah Country Club. Many of the scholarship recipients had grade point...
Crime levels in Dearborn lower than expected
June 12th, 20150 DEARBORN— While many people here feel that crime is on the rise, it has actually remained steady.Since 2013, crime in Dearborn has been relatively level, although there has been an increase in property crimes.Police Chief Ron Haddad said larceny from cars is what drives the numbers up, with a 30 percent increase since 2012. He...
Educare Student Services receives special tribute
June 12th, 20150 DEARBORN — On Friday, June 5, State Sen. David Knezek (D- Dearborn Heights) presented the tutoring company Educare Student Services with a special tribute. Knezek presented Educare founder Hussein Hachem with a plaque during a private reception at the company’s new office in West Dearborn. The plaque was signed by...
Children playing in the streets, a growing concern
June 12th, 20150 DEARBORN – As school is officially out for summer break this week, the season kicks into full swing with children enjoying daily outdoor activities. But a growing concern has been looming over the local Arab American community’s children – they have turned the city’s neighborhood streets into their very own playground. With...
Coalition of international broadcasters combating piracy and copyright infringement
June 11th, 20150 DEARBORN — On Monday, June 8 the International Broadcasting Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP), an organization of leading international broadcasters, announced actions it is taking to combat piracy and copyright infringement during a press conference at the Regency Dearborn Hotel and Convention Center. The coalition, which...
Dearborn man identified as “Detroit serial rapist”
June 10th, 20150 Ali Nasser Alriashi.DETROIT - The local community was shocked to learn about the arrest of Dearborn resident Ali Nasser Alriashi, 31. the alleged serial rapist in connection to several cases in Detroit.Following months of growing concerns that a serial rapist was targeting local women in the southwest region of the city, police were...
Group accuses Sterling Heights mayoral candidate of being anti-Muslim bigot
June 10th, 20150 STERLING HEIGHTS—The Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan is concerned about mayoral candidate Paul Smith's history of spewing anti-Muslim rhetoric. Smith has been slammed for an anti-Muslim email and comments in 2010 during the Park 51 Community Center controversy, in...
Local boy left injured following intentional hit-and-run
June 9th, 20150 12-year-old Rumzey Maatouk, days after sustaining injuries from an intentional hit-and-run. DEARBORN - A local 12-year-old boy was intentionally hit by an on coming vehicle when he was trying to cross the street on his bicycle in an east Dearborn neighborhood. Rumzey Maatouk was riding his bike with a friend near Oakman Elementary...FBI extends FIFA scrutiny to World Cup host bids of Russia, Qatar
Qatar's 2022 World Cup organizing committee, shown here, has been accused of paying FIFA officials to win the bid to host the games, which would be played in the fall and winter due to hot weather.The FBI's investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how soccer's governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights...Divided loyalties as Kurds hold key to Turkish election
TURKEY — Sitting in front of a huge image of Islam's holiest shrine, Ahmet Turanli, an elder of the Resvan tribe, is just the sort of man whose support Turkey's ruling AK Party might want in a parliamentary election on Sunday. Tribes like Turanli's, mostly of Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab origin and concentrated in Turkey's southeast,...Iran, six powers resume nuclear talks as June 30 deadline looms
IRAN — Iran and six world powers resumed negotiations on its nuclear program on Thursday, the Iranian state news agency IRNA said, seeking to overcome remaining differences with a self-imposed June 30 deadline looming to end a 12-year standoff. A framework accord was reached between Iran, the United States, France, Britain, Germany,...Yemen’s Houthis agree to talks as bombing reportedly kills 40
YEMEN — on Thursday, Yemen's dominant Houthis agreed to join United Nations-backed peace talks in Geneva planned for June 14, a day after their opponents in the exiled government confirmed their attendance. A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states has been bombing Houthi forces, the strongest faction in Yemen's civil war, for more than...Mubarak to stand trial again over 2011 killing of protesters
EGYPT — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, a high court said on Thursday. Mubarak, 87, was originally sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators, sowing chaos and creating......
Air strike in north Iraq killed dozens, including civilians, residents say
IRAQ — An air strike by a U.S.-led coalition flattened an entire neighborhood of a northern Iraqi town controlled by "Islamic State" militants, killing dozens of people, including civilians, witnesses and security sources said. The strike targeted an "Islamic State" bomb-making factory in Hawija overnight on Tuesday, triggering a...U.S.-Egyptian released from Egypt jail
CAIRO — An Egyptian-American jailed in Egypt for nearly two years for involvement in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has been released and is back in the U.S. Former Dearborn resident Mohamed Soltan was among thousands detained after Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was toppled in 2013 by the military under Abdel Fattah......
Obama signs NSA bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill ends a system exposed by...The good, bad and uncertain about recognizing ‘Palestine’
No matter what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does, his popularity is declining. In some ways, Abbas’ threshold for popularity was really never impressive to begin with, a trend that is unlikely to change in the near future. But now that a power struggle in his Fatah party is looming, and his two-decade...
Muslim religious freedom is not sharia law
June 5th, 20150 Hours after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who was denied a job at Abercrombie and Fitch because she wears the hijab, the world wide web was filled with countless posts bemoaning the triumph of sharia law. The frenzy about sharia law, led by bigoted anti-Muslim bloggers and Republican...
Proposed second span of Ambassador Bridge raises concerns in the community
June 5th, 20150 DETROIT — Residents are concerned about the negative environmental impacts from the proposed construction of a second span adjacent to the Ambassador Bridge. The city-owned Riverside Park, a piece of land needed to build the second span, was reported by billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun, owner of the Ambassador bridge, as......
Fatina Abdrabboh first Arab American to serve on Harvard alumni council
June 5th, 20150 DEARBORN — Fatina Abdrabboh, director of the ADC-Michigan, was recently selected to join the alumni council at Harvard University for a three- year term. The university selects council members thorough a vetting process and appointments are subject to confirmation by university officials. As a leading academic center,...
ACCESS seeks Civil Rights Commission’s support of ‘Take on Hate’ campaign
June 5th, 20150 DEARBORN — Violent hate crimes and hate and bias against Arab and Muslim Americans is at an all-time high, Rana Abbas, director of communications for ACCESS, the country’s largest Arab American Non-Profit Organization, told the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Abbas spoke June 1, at a presentation at the Arab American National......
Iran sends 15,000 troops to back Assad in Syria
Damascus — Iran has sent 15,000 fighters to Syria to reverse recent battlefield setbacks for Syrian government troops and wants to achieve results by the end of the month, according to numerous reports. The militia force, made up of Iranians, Iraqis and Afghanis, the source said, arrived in...Israel bombs Gaza sites after rocket attack claimed by ISIS sympathizer
GAZA — Israel retaliated on Thursday for rockets fired at it from Gaza with bombing raids against three militant training camps, and a radical group sympathetic with Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Israel. Witnesses and medics said the predawn attacks on two camps belonging to Hamas, which dominates the Gaza......
