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Saudi Arabia’s grumpy foreign policy
Saudi Arabia’s royal family is not happy and wants the world to know it. The royal family has been more tight-lipped and diplomatic over the years. It would often hide its anger behind smiles in photos and vapid rhetoric about Arab brotherhood, even when it conspired against various Arab regimes.Nowadays, the Saudi royal family is...
People on the ‘No Fly List’ have a right to due process
March 14th, 20140 As spring break and summer approach, many people in the community will be looking to vacation or travel overseas. But some of them might not be able to board an airplane with dignity or even get on one at all, depending on what FBI list they are on.Community members on the No Fly List will be confronted by Homeland Security agents at...Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The lurking danger beneath
Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher.The status of al-Aqsa mosque is unparalleled within the context of Muslim heritage in...UAE summons Iraq ambassador over accusing Saudis of funding terrorism
ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates summoned Iraq's ambassador on Wednesday, March 12, to protest against his prime minister's accusations that its ally Saudi Arabia was funding terrorism, state news agency WAM reported, while Bahrain called the comments "irresponsible."Saudi Arabia has already rejected Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri...Algerian PM steps down to run Bouteflika’s reelection campaign
Bouteflika.ALGIERS - Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal resigned on Thursday, March 13, state media said, to run the re-election campaign of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ageing independence leader who is widely expected to win five more years in power.Bouteflika, 77, registered his candidacy for the April 17 presidential...Several Arab countries ban Hollywood movie “Noah”
DUBAI - Three Arab countries have banned the biblical epic movie "Noah," while three more are expected to follow suit, a studio spokesman said Wednesday, March 12.Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates told Hollywood giant Paramount last week that the film, starring Russell Crowe, will not be released in their countries. Egypt,...
CIA accused of spying on U.S. Senate intelligence committee
March 14th, 20140 WASHINGTON - A bitter dispute between the CIA and the U.S. Senate committee that oversees it burst into the open on Tuesday when the committee chairwoman accused the agency of spying on Congress and possibly breaking the law.Veteran Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said the CIA had searched computers used by committee staffers...Rescuers seek survivors of NY building collapse, seven dead
NEW YORK - Search crews picked through still-smoldering rubble on Thursday, looking for survivors of a gas explosion that caused the collapse of two New York apartment buildings a day earlier, killing seven people and injuring about 60.Facing thick smoke and bitter cold, dozens of firefighters, police officers and a team from the...Metro Detroit three inches away from breaking snowfall record
DETROIT - After Wednesday's storm, Metro Detroit is less than three inches away from breaking its snowfall record. According to the National Weather Service, 89.8 inches of snow have fallen on the area in the autumn and winter of 2013-14. Metro Detroit's snowiest season on record was in 1980-81, when Detroit and its suburbs received 93.6...
Dearborn enforces snow season rules on residents, businesses
March 14th, 20140 DEARBORN - A long and grueling winter has forced the City of Dearborn to buckle down on enforcing policies for residents and business owners as snow continues to pile up on street, sidewalks and parking lots. At the last few city council meetings, concerns were addressed regarding business owners who are shoveling snow off of...
Dearborn man delivers everything
March 14th, 20140 DEARBORN - While driving to deliver a pizza order, Ali Atoui says he remembered his boss' attitude and questioned his position at work. "Why should I work for others? Why can't I do this on my own?" he asked himself. Then, he decided to establish his own business, but it wasn't a pizza shop; it was something far less usual: a delivery...
Council President Susan Dabaja: City provides valuable services for seniors
March 14th, 20140 Dabaja.DEARBORN - In collaboration with The Arab American News, City Council President Susan Dabaja will be using our newspaper to convey beneficial information to the community on a monthly basis. Dabaja, who has been running bi-weekly city council meetings since the beginning of the year as part of her elected duties, expressed...
Energy expert Fuad Jawad: Lebanon‘s oil and gas shouldn’t be politicized
March 14th, 20140 DEARBORN - Off its shores, Lebanon has $1 trillion worth of oil and gas that can be extracted over 75 years, according to oil expert and geologist Fuad Jawad. However, he says a careful plan should be set in place to preserve the country's oil wealth and maximize the people's profit from it. "You cannot politicize oil and...
Remembering Arabs and Chaldeans who were killed working to support their families
March 14th, 20140 Imad Kobeissi holding up one of the six photos he has framed in the living room of his Dearborn home of his brother Adel Kobeissi, who was shot and killed by a gunman April 1, 2010 at his Detroit gas station.DETROIT - There are six framed photos of Adel Kobeissi, a Lebanese American, who was murdered at his Detroit gas station nearly...
New civil rights group to address issues facing local Yemeni Americans
March 14th, 20140 Representatives from several federal agencies attended a meeting at the National American Yemen Association's office in Dearborn to hear some of the concerns people in the Yemeni community face.DEARBORN - On Thursday, Mar. 6 representatives from several federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of......
Diversity conference expands to Chicago, preps 11th annual event in Dearborn
March 14th, 20140 Edward James Olmos to keynote the "Images and Perceptions Conference" which will be held on April 10 at Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn.DEARBORN - 3D Consulting & Communications is preparing for their 11th annual "Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference" to be held on April 10 at Byblos Banquets here in Dearborn.Over the years,...
Wayne County prosecutor announces Michigan legislation to fund sexual assault kit
March 14th, 20140 DETROIT - On Monday, Mar.10, Mariska Hargitay of NBC’s Law and Order and Wayne County prosecutor Kim Worthy held a press conference at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice about the Detroit Rape Kit Project and proposed Sexual Assault Kit Evidence Submission Act Legislation. Hargitay is also the founder and president of the Joyful......
Wayne County to hold healthcare enrollment events
DETROIT - In a countywide push to enroll residents in the Affordable Care Act and Healthy Michigan (Medicaid expansion) health coverage plans, the Wayne County Health and Human Services Department will be hosting enrollment events this March. The first event takes place Wednesday, Mar. 19 at Cobo Hall in Detroit from 9.m. to 4 p.m....“Life” raises donations for Iraqi refugees
DETROIT - Life for Relief and Development held a fundraiser for the refugees of the armed conflict in Fallujah, Iraq on Saturday, March 8, at the Islamic Center of Detroit.About 150 people attended the event and donated more than $17,000. The organization had raised $7,000 for the same cause after Friday prayer at the Salam Mosque in...
Chief Federal Judge Gerald Rosen to deliver keynote address at local group’s annual gala
March 14th, 20140 DEARBORN - Gerald Rosen, chief federal judge for the Eastern District of Michigan will deliver the keynote address during the Lebanese American Heritage Club’s 26th annual awards gala Friday, May 9 at the Adoba Hotel in Dearborn. The event attracts about 1200 people every year. Assistant U.S. Attorney Abed Hammoud and the...
Hijabi Monologues performances illustrate experiences of Muslim women from different backgrounds
March 14th, 20140 DEARBORN - The University of Michigan-Dearborn hosted powerful performances by the Hijabi Monologues on March 7 and 8. The performances showed that women worldwide, despite their nationality or religion, all share similarities. The popular group says its focus is on creating a theater space for the experiences of Muslim women, a......
Egypt’s military blames Muslim Brotherhood for attack on army bus
CAIRO - Egypt's army blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood for an attack on an army bus that killed one officer and wounded three others in the capital on Thursday, March 13.The Muslim Brotherhood strongly condemned the attack in an emailed statement, saying the targeting of army soldiers and civilians is a "heinous crime that requires...
Russian arms to Egypt threaten to undermine U.S. influence in Mideast
March 14th, 20140 Russia, which is at loggerheads with Washington over the spreading political crisis in Ukraine, is threatening to undermine a longstanding military relationship between the United States and one of its traditional allies in the Middle East: Egypt.A photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands with Egypt’s de facto......
vIslamist militants in Syria claim kidnapping of 94 civilians, parliament passes election law
DAMASCUS - Islamist militants in Syria have claimed responsibility for kidnapping at least 94 women and children belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, according to a video published on Thursday, March 13.The civilians were abducted in August from villages in rural Latakia, the president's coastal stronghold. The...Rebel chief says forces take town in Sudan’s Darfur
KHARTOUM - Worsening violence in the Darfur region of western Sudan spread to another town on Thursday, March 13, where a rebel commander said his forces were in control."This evening our troops captured Mellit town," Minni Minnawi, who heads a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army, told AFP.Mellit is more than 50 kilometres (30 miles)......