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Egyptian pro-democracy activist sentenced to three years
CAIRO — Egyptian pro-democracy activist Ahmed Douma was sentenced to three years in jail on Tuesday after he accused the judge of bias and denounced his trial on charges of violence against the state as political. Douma was a leading youth figure in the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak at the height of the "Arab Spring." He is...
Rasmea Odeh released on bond
December 12th, 20140 DETROIT — Rasmea Odeh was released from jail on Thursday afternoon, after Judge Gershwin Drain ruled to reinstate her bond. The Palestinian American activist was convicted of immigration fraud on Nov. 10 for not disclosing a conviction in a military court in Israel on her U.S. citizenship application. Federal marshals arrested...
Local minors were heavily involved in Warrendale area drug ring, three adults convicted
December 10th, 20140 DETROIT— Three members of a Warrendale area drug ring were convicted in federal court this week after a six week trial before U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy that led to a nine-day deliberation from a grand jury. Two of the men, who were arrested last year, are brothers. Mohamed "Mojo" Faraj, 31, and Foaud "Fred" Faraj, 44,...
Arab American community divided over Ferguson events
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Daren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, followed by a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer, sparked angry protests and countless conversations about race, police brutality and law enforcement across the country. But while conservatives generally applauded the grand jury's decisions and...
Prescription drug abuse prevalent among community adolescents
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — 52 million people in the United States over the age of 12 have used prescription drugs non-medically in their lifetime. The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs.Our communities aren’t immune from the abuse of prescription drugs. According to...Dearborn robber still at large
DEARBORN — On Wednesday at about 5 p.m. the 5th Third Bank in Dearborn, on Telegraph south of Ford Road, was robbed by a lone male who produced a hold-up note and demanded money. The suspect is described as being approximately 40-years-old, thin, between 5'9" and 6'0" tall and missing several teeth. A teller turned over an...
Rasmea Odeh’s defense requests her release on bond
December 5th, 20140 DETROIT — The judge in Rasmea Odeh's case is expected to soon make a decision on a defense motion requesting the reinstatement of her bond.Last month, Odeh, 67, a Palestinian American activist living in Chicago, was found guilty of lying on her U.S. naturalization application about having been arrested and convicted in Israel 45...
Mubarak’s acquittal a continuation of the counter-revolution
December 5th, 20140 On Jan. 25, 2011, Egypt revolted against tyranny. Egyptian security forces gunned down more than 800 peaceful protesters during the 17-day uprising that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the dictator who has been ruling the country for 30 years.Last week, Mubarak and seven of his security commanders, including ex-interior minister...
City officials deny hookah exemption to local business
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — City officials have denied the owners of Signature Cafe, a hookah bar and restaurant located on Warren Ave. and Chase Rd, an exemption to a six month hookah moratorium, forcing the business to a halt in trying to secure a hookah license from the state. The owners of Signature Cafe claim they had been trying to obtain...Detroit Police kill man inside Macy’s Dry Cleaners, suspect allegedly targeted owner
DEARBORN — On Friday, November 28, Detroit Police shot and killed a suspect at Macy's Dry Cleaners. The suspect was wanted for a murder in Detroit earlier that day.The suspect, named Sam, is described as a Hispanic male in his late 50s by eyewitnesses who were at the scene. He had worked for the dry cleaner at one point more...
Henry Ford College Student selected for exclusive nationwide NASA program
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Ali Tarraf, a Dearborn resident studying at Henry Ford College (HFC), was the only college student in Michigan selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, this past fall to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) project.Tarraf, an alumnus of Fordson High School, is one...
Public invited to Dec. 15 open house at Dearborn’s new train station; Amtrak will move operations as of Dec. 10
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — The public is invited to a free open house at Dearborn’s new train station, the John D. Dingell Transit Center, from 4-6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 15.The new transit center is at 21201 Michigan Ave., near Brady Street, at the entrance to the west downtown business district.At the Dec. 15 open house, residents can tour the...
Comedian FouseyTUBE to perform in Dearborn Jan. 17
December 5th, 20140 DEARBORN — Yousef Saleh Erakat, also known by the stage name FouseyTUBE, will appear live in Dearborn Saturday, January 17 at 8 p.m. at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center.Erakat is an American entertainer and motivational speaker who produces parodies, vlogs, comedy sketches, and pranks for his YouTube channel. He is a...
Missouri National Guard scales back, Ferguson protests probed
December 5th, 20140 Members of the National Guard stand guard outside the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri November 28.ST. LOUIS — The Missouri National Guard is starting to scale back its presence in the St. Louis area as angry protests over the lack of an indictment in the police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager ease, Missouri Governor Jay...
NY policeman not indicted in chokehold death
December 5th, 20140 NEW YORK — A New York City grand jury decision not to charge a White police officer who killed an unarmed Black man with a chokehold sparked outrage and protests on Wednesday; and the U.S. Justice Department said it would investigate the incident.Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, was illegally selling cigarettes on July 17......
The Mockingjay of Palestine: “If we burn, you burn with us”
Raed Mu’anis was my best friend. The small scar on top of his left eyebrow was my doing at the age of five. I urged him to quit hanging on a rope where my mother was drying our laundry. He wouldn’t listen, so I threw a rock at him.I didn’t mean for the rock hit him, but it did. My father dragged to me to his house kicking and...Al-Azhar urges Christians to stand firm in face of extremists
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (R), Coptic Pope Tawadros (C) at conference on fighting extremism on Dec. 3.CAIRO — Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious center of learning, on Thursday urged Christians in the Arab world to stand firm in the face of jihadist violence and not flee into exile.The call, made at a Cairo conference organized by......
UAE arrest suspected of killing US teacher
ABU DHABI — An Emirati woman has been arrested over the fatal stabbing of an American teacher and a foiled plot to bomb the home of another U.S. citizen, UAE authorities said Thursday.Kindergarten teacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, was found stabbed to death Monday in a bloody bathroom in an Abu Dhabi mall.Interior Minister Sheikh Saif Bin...Egyptian court sentences 185 to death for attack on police
Police officers stand in front of a police station damaged after being set ablaze by supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi in Kerdasa, Sept. 19, 2013.CAIRO — An Egyptian judge sentenced 185 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death on Tuesday over an attack on a police station near Cairo last year in which 12 policemen were...UNICEF: Food aid halt pushing more Syrian refugee girls to early marriage
Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.DAMASCUS — The halt in U.N. food supplies to 1.7 million Syrian refugees makes it more likely that refugee children will be forced to go to work or marry early to help their families survive, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday.The World Food Programme (WFP)...Assad: U.S. airstrikes illegal and ineffective
Assad.DAMASCUS — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Thursday he expected his country's conflict to be long and difficult but vowed to defeat the insurgents battling to oust him and said he would not be driven from power.Assad told the French magazine Paris Match nobody could predict when the war with......
Renowned controversial Lebanese poet Said Akl dies at 102
Said Akl.Renowned Lebanese poet and writer Said Akl passed away on Friday, Nov. 28, at the age of 102.Akl was born in 1912 in the eastern town of Zahleh, and quit school at the age of 15 to help his family after financial difficulties. He later pursued studies in literature in the 1930s after moving to Beirut.Famous for his radical...UNESCO calls for ending “cultural cleansing” in Iraq and Syria
the Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Aleppo, on fire during clashes between government troops and rebels.PARIS — UNESCO chief Irina Bokova on Wednesday called for the creation of "protected cultural zones" to save heritage sites in conflict-torn Iraq and Syria that were at risk of "cultural cleansing."Efforts should start with the......
Aging infrastructure blamed in massive Detroit power outage
December 5th, 20140 DETROIT — The city of Detroit found itself in the dark for several hours after a widespread power outage, Tuesday. The blackout affected thousands of people. The cause is still under investigation, but city leaders say Detroit's aging infrastructure is to blame.The massive power outage brought downtown to a standstill; it cut power...
Metro Detroit Youth Day co-founder Edward Deeb receives Neighborhood Leadership Award
December 5th, 20140 Deeb.WARREN — Metro Detroit Youth Day (MDYD) co-founder Edward Deeb recently received the Exemplary Neighborhood Leadership Award from the Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) for his role in supporting and inspiring metro Detroit youth to do the most good.Deeb was nominated by peers and chosen by an independent panel......
