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U of M students launch divestment campaign
March 27th, 20150 ANN ARBOR — A Palestinian solidarity group at the University of Michigan launched a campaign to divest from companies that profit from the Israeli military. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) proposed the divestment resolution to the Central Student Government (CSG) on Tuesday, March 24. The resolution asks the...
Elementary school students raise money for Down Syndrome organization
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Students at Iris Becker Elementary School recently pooled their resources to raise $900 for the Down Syndrome Guild of Southeast Michigan. According to Paulette Duggins, the executive director of the DSGSM, the money will be used to send students with Down Syndrome to camp this summer. Down Syndrome is a set of physical...
ICA ranked in top 10 beautiful mosques by French magazine
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — The popular French news outlet Infotourisme ranked the Islamic Center of America (ICA) one of the world’s top 10 most beautiful mosques. The ICA was the only mosque in the United States to make the list. The institution was ranked number eight on the list, and is believed to be the largest mosque in North America....
Head of Detroit FBI reads to Dearborn students
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Paul Abbate, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit Division, joined Samia Hamid Sareini, the Arab American Civil Rights League field director, on Monday, March 23, at William Ford Elementary School in Dearborn, where the two read to students as part of the National Reading month. Celebrities and public...
Second annual Autism Awareness event in Dearborn to be bluer and brighter
March 27th, 20150 DEARBORN — Blue Hands United of Dearborn is gearing up for its second annual lighting ceremony taking place at the Ford Community Arts Center on April 2. The objective of the organization, started in 2013 by local parents, is to spread autism awareness in the Arab American community and beyond. The latest studies indicate that...
Two Arab men killed in Houston
March 27th, 20150 HOUSTON – Police in Houston are investigating the murders of two young Lebanese men at an apartment complex.The shooting occurred Tuesday Evening at the Briarwood Village apartment complex. A witness told local media that he heard eight gun shots before one man was discovered dead and a second in critical condition. Several people...Oil up 5 percent after Saudi strikes in Yemen
NEW YORK — Oil jumped about 5 percent on Thursday, rallying a second straight day, after air strikes in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies sparked fears of a bigger Middle East battle that could disrupt world crude supplies. The military operation against Houthi rebels, who have driven the president from Yemen's capital...White House chief of staff: Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories ‘must end’
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials continue to maintain that American policy towards Israel will undergo changes in the wake of pre-election comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he stated that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch. Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories has lasted for nearly...Netanyahu the mythbuster: ‘Special relationship’ no more
Imagine if an American presidential candidate made a plea to his supporters on election day with the following statement: “The Republican administration is in danger. Black voters are going en masse to the polls. Liberal NGOs are bringing them on buses.” Even in a country where Chris Matthews is a media celebrity and Pamela Geller...Saudi intervention in Yemen will lead to more chaos
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, joined by Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan, have started a military campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen. The wrath of Arab armies is manifesting itself, not against their enemies, but in an internal conflict in an Arab country. All of these countries sat idly...
Superintendent Whiston to share Dearborn experience across Michigan
March 27th, 20150 Whiston.DEARBORN — Dearborn Schools S uperintendent Brian Whiston, who has accepted the job as the next state superintendent, said he will use his experience in the district to improve schools across Michigan. As state superintendent, Whiston will have oversight on the school districts' operations and expenditure. He will also make...Lebanon captures militant who beheaded soldier
Bilal Mikati (L), Omar Mikati.BEIRUT — Lebanon's army said on Tuesday that it had captured two militants, one of whom beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was held by hardline Islamist gunmen along with around two dozen servicemen still in captivity. A statement from the army said that Omar Mikati and Bilal Mikati were captured on Tuesday...“Islamic State” militants take on Libya’s rival government forces
TRIPOLI — Militants claiming allegiance to "Islamic State" fought forces loyal to Libya's two rival governments in the central city of Sirte and further east in Benghazi, state media and military officials said on Wednesday. In Sirte, ISIS militants killed five members of a force loyal to the government that controls Tripoli, a...Bardo museum symbolic reopening precedes march against terror
Children perform during the ceremonial reopening of the Bardo museum in Tunis, March 24.TUNIS — Tunisia's Bardo museum held a ceremonial reopening on Tuesday, a week after gunmen claiming alliance with "Islamic State" killed 20 foreign tourists in an attack aimed at wrecking the country's vital tourism industry. Several thousand...
Yemeni President Hadi leaves country as Saudi Arabia steps up air strikes
March 27th, 20150 People gather at the site of an air strike at a residential area near Sanaa Airport, March 26.SANAA — Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi left his refuge in Aden for Saudi Arabia on Thursday as Houthi rebels battled with his forces on the outskirts of the southern port city. Throughout the day, warplanes from Saudi Arabia and......
Assad urges united front with Iraq against terrorism
DAMASCUS — On Tuesday during talks with Iraq's foreign minister in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called for a united front with Baghdad in tackling terrorism as the two countries battle "Islamic State" militants on their territory. The government in Baghdad, along with Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, has been an...U.S. coalition joins Tikrit battle
Iraqi militants launch rockets against ISIS positions during clashes in Tikrit, March 24.BAGHDAD — Iraqi special forces advanced on central Tikrit on Thursday, backed by U.S.-led coalition planes in the largest offensive yet against "Islamic State" (ISIS) militants holding out in Saddam Hussein's home city. Coalition jets launched......
Sadr Foundation celebrates 50 years at ICA
March 27th, 20150 The foundation tends to the social, economic, educational and health needs of thousands of men and women in Lebanon's underserved areas. ISF was established in 1965 by Imam Musa al-Sadr, a Lebanese religious and political leader. Sadr disappeared in Libya in 1979 and is presumed dead after several former Libyan officials claimed...
New bill would require Michigan police officers to wear body cameras
March 27th, 20150 DETROIT — A new bill introduced by State Rep. Rose Mary Robinson (D- Detroit) would require all police officers to wear body cameras. “Every law enforcement officer should wear it on duty,” Robinson told The Arab American News. “I am asking the state to mandate it.” On Monday, March 23, Robinson held a press...Detroit man said Inkster police targeted him because of race
DETROIT — In a press conference at his attorney’s office on Wednesday, 57-year-old Floyd Dent, an auto worker with no criminal record, described the January 28 incident in which he said Inkster police dragged him from his car during a traffic stop. The police also beat him and tasered him, according to Dent’s account, which was...Dearborn man sues Detroit police in federal court
DETROIT — Dearborn resident Joseph Fawaz has sued both the city of Detroit and its police department, charging that Sgt. Rebecca McKay, a member of the city's Copper Theft Task Force who was allegedly caught on surveillance video planting evidence, has waged a years-long vendetta against his family-owned Southwest Metals. According......
Congress: FBI needs better intelligence
WASHINGTON — The FBI needs to strengthen its intelligence programs and information sharing to counter the diverse and fast-moving national threats that have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a congressional commission said on Wednesday. The 9/11 Review Commission report also said the Federal Bureau of Investigation's progress...U.S. losing ‘information war’ to Russia, other rivals
WASHINGTON — The United States is losing an information war to Russia, "Islamic State" and other rivals, says a new report that calls for a strengthening in U.S. counter-propaganda efforts and an overhaul of the government's international broadcasting arm. The study is the latest to highlight problems in the Broadcasting Board......
Terrorism by non-Muslims goes under-reported
A man walked into the New Orleans airport on March 20, swung his machete at TSA officers and sprayed poison at them. His duffel bag contained six homemade bombs. His motives remain unknown; and to many Americans, his actions do, too, because the news media paid little attention to them.Richard White, the 63-year-old attacker, died...ISIS recruited 400 children since January
DAMASCUS — "Islamic State" recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" military training and hardline indoctrination, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the children, all aged under 18, were recruited near schools,......
