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Longtime City Councilman Doug Thomas dies
February 13th, 20150 BONITA SPRINGS, FLA. — Former Dearborn City Councilman and Dearborn native Doug Thomas passed away Feb. 6. He was 82. Thomas served on the city council for a total of 21 years. He was first elected in 1981, holding his seat until 1985 when he made an unsuccessful run for mayor. He was reelected to the council in 1989,...
County to repave section of Warren Ave. in Dearborn Heights and Detroit
February 13th, 20150 DETROIT — The Wayne County Commission voted 14-0 Feb. 5 to approve a five-year intergovernmental agreement with the city of Dearborn Heights for more than $1.4 million in improvements to Warren Avenue, between Telegraph Road and Outer Drive West in the city’s north end. The Dearborn Heights City Council approved the...
Home Depot to hire 1,500 in metro Detroit
February 13th, 20150 DETROIT — Home Depot stores in metro Detroit are expected to hire 1,500 new employees. The home improvement retailer has plans to hire about 80,000 people nationwide as the spring season draws near. Most of the positions are temporary or part time, while others are permanent. Home Depot pays above minimum wage. You can apply online...
Reportedly missing 19-year-old Dearborn student is in jail
February 13th, 20150 Hassan Alfatlawi.DEARBORN — After reports that a 19-year-old Henry Ford College student was missing circulated on social media for hours on Thursday, The Arab American News learned that the man is actually in the Calhoun County Jail. Sources at Dearborn's 19th District court told The Arab American News that Hassan...Teen reading series explores Muslim cultures at Dearborn library
DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public Library has been invited to participate in a second round of the Muslim Voices program for teens by the Michigan Humanities Council and the New York Council for the Humanities. The Library was a pilot site for the teen program of Muslim Voices last April, before it was launched nationwide. Muslim...
Arab community commemorates life of Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIS
February 13th, 20150 LIVONIA — Hundreds attended a commemoration ceremony honoring the life of 26-year-old Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh on Sunday, Feb. 8 at the St. Mary’s Cultural Center. Al-Kaseasbeh was burned alive by “Islamic State” terrorists last week. He was placed in a cage in an orange jump suit drenched with a flammable...U.S. creates new agency to lead cyber threat tracking
U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia.WASHINGTON — Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures "a game changer", a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to...
White House calls climate change greater threat to country than terrorism
February 13th, 20150 White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.WASHINGTON — According to the Washington Times, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Americans no longer face the same threat of attack that they did prior to Sept. 11, 2001, crediting the administration's efforts to degrade organizations such as al Qaeda. Earnest said...Obama asks Congress to authorize war on “Islamic State”
President Barack Obama is flanked by Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of State John Kerry (R) as he delivers a statement on legislation sent to Congress.WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday sent Congress his long-awaited formal request to authorize military force against "Islamic State," meeting swift resistance from...The origin of terrorist militias in the Middle East
Bashir Gemayel and William Hawi supervising training of Phalanges militiamen at Tabrieh, 1972.There is an attempt underway to make the case that Islam, the religion, inspired or spawned the creation of various jihadist groups. The fact that the U.S. itself was a major catalyst for the creation of such groups, as that was its plot...“Islamic State” says it’s holding ‘Israeli spy’ in Syria
The mother of Muhammad Musallam, weeps as she holds his photograph, Feb. 12DAMASCUS — "Islamic State" said on Thursday it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter in order to spy for Mossad, an account denied by Israel and by the man's family, who said he had been kidnapped. In an interview published by IS...ADC, AAI and CPAO to demand Boehner cancels Netanyahu’s speech
WASHINGTON — Last week Representatives Keith Ellison (D-MINN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Maxine Waters (D-CA) authored a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH-8), voicing their disapproval of his invitation to Israeli PM Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Media networks and political...Syrian army, Hezbollah advance in campaign against rebels in south
People inspect a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.DAMASCUS — Syrian government forces and their Lebanese allies took new ground in a major offensive in southern Syria pressing a campaign against insurgents posing one of the biggest remaining threats to Damascus. The...“Islamic State” seizes western Iraqi town
A banner is placed at a IS checkpoint, in Anbar province, July 22, 2014. The banner reads, ''Islamic State, State of Anbar, City of Rawah.''BAGHDAD — "Islamic State" insurgents took control on Thursday of most of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials...Why is it different when the bloodshed is that of American Arab Muslims
The college student who works as a cashier at the community bakery I walked into this morning looked different than she does on most mornings. She had a grieving and distressed look on her face. As she rang up my order I said, “It’s the UNC murders, isn’t it?” She nodded her head and she needed to say no more......
UN warns Yemen is on the brink of collapse
February 13th, 20150 Houthi rebels drive through Sanaa amid rival protests for and against them, Oct. 11.SANAA — Al-Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large army base in a dawn attack in southern Yemen on Thursday, militants and residents said, hours after the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war. The base in the southern...Egypt releases Al Jazeera journalists on bail
Mohamed Fahmy's fiancée Marwa Omara is pictured here reacting to the news in a Cairo courtroom, Feb. 12.CAIRO — Two remaining Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt on charges of aiding a "terrorist organization" were freed on bail on Thursday after more than 400 days, but the court said the case against them was still pending. The......
Russia to help build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant
Putin and Sisi at a joint press conference in Cairo.CAIRO — The presidents of Russia and Egypt have announced after talks in Cairo, that the two countries are to build Egypt's first nuclear power plant together, as well as boosting natural gas trade among other deals. Vladimir Putin and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi made the announcement on...Israel bans Arab MP from next elections
JERUSALEM — Firebrand Arab MP Haneen Zuabi, a regular critic of Israel's right-wing government, was banned Thursday from standing in next month's general election. The elections committee gave no reason for the disqualification, reported on its website, but Zuabi's lawyer Hassan Jabareen said it was because she was deemed "hostile to...Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani man in 29th execution of 2015
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug smuggler, bringing to 29 the number of executions in the first six weeks of the year. Babir Hussein Mohammed Ishaq was found guilty of transporting heroin which he had ingested, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press...
False report of jewelry robbery could land a man in jail
February 12th, 20150 Fairlane MallDEARBORN—Dearborn Police responded to Fairlane Mall to investigate a robbery that allegedly just occurred in the parking lot, on Feb. 12, 2014 A jewelry merchant, Yakov Aminov, reported to responding officers that he was just assaulted and robbed by two unknown males. Aminov reported that he......
Amid deafening media silence, terror strikes Muslim students in North Carolina
February 11th, 20150 It took the mainstream media an entire day to report on a possible hate crime that claimed the lives of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, of Chapel Hill; his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, of Chapel Hill; and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, were all shot dead on Tuesday...Duggan: Detroit on track for first balanced budget in 13 years
DETROIT—Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said the post-bankruptcy city will record its first balanced budget since 2002 when the current fiscal year ends on June 30. "We still have to run a very tight budget every single week in order to stay on track," Duggan cautioned in his state of the city address on......
Longtime City Councilman Doug Thomas dies
DEARBORN, Mich. – Former Dearborn City Councilman and Dearborn native Doug Thomas passed away Feb. 6 in Florida, where he was a resident of Bonita Springs. He was 82.Thomas served on council for a total of 21 years. He was first elected in 1981, holding his seat until 1985 when he made an unsuccessful run for...
Wayne County investigation clears Ficano, Elder and Mullin
February 9th, 20150 Azzam ElderDETROIT - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Monday the conclusion of the Wayne County government investigation. The federal government will not seek additional charges in the case.U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara McQuade thanked county officials who participated in the investigation,......
