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Biden to keynote Michigan Democratic Party’s annual event
Biden.LANSING — Vice President Joe Biden will serve as the keynote speaker for the Michigan Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that will take place on April 20, 2013, at 6 p.m. at Cobo Hall, party officials announced Monday. “As we continue to fight against policies that hurt the middle class in Michigan, Vice...Local TV station hires Arab American multimedia reporter
Nima Shaffe.SOUTHFIELD — Today's young Arab Americans are pursuing career paths previous generations didn't generally take on, such as everything from journalism and high political office to entertainment. Arab American Nima Shaffe is one of local WXYZ channel 7 ABC affiliate's new multi-media reporters. There has been some...Visually impaired Arab American to be honored for work in rehabilitation and disability
DEARBORN — Rabih Dow, Director of Rehabilitation Services and International Training and Fencing Coach at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts will receive the Excellence and Great Achievements Award for his work in rehabilitation and disability from the Lebanese American Heritage Club. "Although I lost my...Dearborn businessman, local attorney convicted of bank fraud, bribery charges
DEARBORN — Hussein "Sam" Nazzal, a Dearborn businessman, and Edward A. Schneider, a local attorney, were both found guilty this week by a federal jury for multiple counts of fraud and commercial bribery. Nazzal (L) and Schneider (R)Nazzal and Schneider were found gulty for conspiring to defraud Fith Third Bank between the years of...Detroit police and fire departments receive $8 million donation
DETROIT — On Monday, Mayor Dave Bing announced that several businesses have pledged a total of $8 million to help the city pay for emergency vehicles that includes 23 EMS units and 100 police cars. Detroit, which has a projected deficit of more than $200 million this year alone, has had to cutback on emergency services in recent...Michigan announces Autism spectrum disorders state plan
LANSING — On Mar. 18, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and the Michigan Autism Council released the Michigan Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) State Plan. This plan represents another major step to addressing the many needs of the 16,000 students with ASD in our public school system and the 50,000 individuals and their...Social justice groups merge as Michigan United
DETROIT —Two of Michigan’s social justice organizations, the Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reform and the Michigan Organizing Project, officially merged as one organization, and are now officially Michigan United. The merge occured during Justice Launch 2013, a statewide social justice gathering of more than 500...Local college groups to hold blood drive at HFCC
DEARBORN — The Criminal Justice Club and Arab Student Union at Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) will hold a blood drive in Room C-119 of the Student and Culinary Arts Center, located on the main campus, on Monday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. and Tuesday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 3:45 a.m. The event is free and open to...Arab American wins State of Michigan USA Taekwondo Championship
Hameed Dakroub (Center) Master Hameed Dakroub has won the Michigan Tae Kwon Do State Championships in Lansing on March 23, 2013. He has previously won the Ohio Regional Championship in 2011, and the USA Jr. Olympic Tae Kwon Do Championships, in 2002. He also took fourth place at the World Class National Championships, in...
New Syrian cookbook features century-old traditional recipes
March 29th, 20130 A new cookbook titled, Sitto's Kitchen: A Treasury of Syrian Family Recipes Taught from Mother to Daughter for Over 100 Years features century old Syrian recipes. It includes original recipes from the author's grandmother along with contemporary cooking tips and memories associated with each dish. Readers are invited to learn the...ADA urges all to take risk test
LANSING — March 26 was American Diabetes Association Alert Day. The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) are encouraging Michiganders to learn about their risk for diabetes, as well as to take the Diabetes Risk Test and share it with everyone they care about —friends, family...Regional states, U.S. step up arms shipments to Syrian rebels
Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capital of Damascus, officials and Western military experts said Wednesday.Four sources, including an Arab official, a diplomat and a military expert, described a...Dearborn Heights Police seek stronger neighborhood involvement to fight crime
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Last Tuesday, the Dearborn Heights Police Department held a public meeting at their police department in order to bring the city's neighborhoods together to help reduce a recent string of robberies targeting vacant homes.Police Corporal Mark Parrinello organized the meeting in an effort to pump some new momentum into...Lavrov: Arab League decision to recognize rebels denies peaceful solution
The Arab League’s recognition of the Syrian opposition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people means that the League is refusing to allow a peaceful settlement in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.“We consider the main meaning of the decisions made that the Arab League has refused a peaceful settlement...Survey: U.S., UK citizens reject regime change or arms supply in Syria
Both U.S. and UK citizens are decisively against any military intervention in the Syrian conflict, and most do not want the government to provide military aid to rebels according to a new poll. Fifty-seven percent of British people and 45 percent of Americans are against supplying arms to the Syrian rebels, with just 16 percent in......
Obama’s one-sided embrace of Israel angers Palestinians
March 22nd, 20130 RAMALLAH- U.S. President Barack Obama insisted on Thursday a two-state solution was still viable, but disappointed his Palestinian hosts by failing to take a clear stance on freezing settlement activity.On the second day of a historic visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Obama traveled to the West Bank's political capital to...Mosque suicide bombing kills prominent cleric
DAMASCUS - A suicide bombing rocked a Damascus mosque on Thursday, killing at least 42 people including Syria's most prominent Sunni cleric, state media and a watchdog group said.The bomber blew himself up inside the Iman Mosque in central Damascus as the cleric, Mohamed al-Bouti, addressed religious students, in an attack that echoed......
U.S. looks to overhaul massive immigration detention system
WASHINGTON - Rights groups and government officials here have been testifying in a string of hearings, before both bodies of the U.S. Congress, on how to overhaul the United States’ huge immigration detention system, the scope of which has expanded massively in recent years in ways that some suggest impinge on civil and human...
Iraq once more on the brink of war
March 22nd, 20130 KIRKUK, Iraq (IPS) — Driving into the city of Kirkuk, one is greeted by the view of a huge sea of grey concrete houses from which laundry has been hung out to dry in the wind and be blackened by smoke rising from the surrounding oil wells.Only the turquoise flags fluttering from lampposts and balconies break the monochromatic view,...The undying shame of the Iraq war
Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated “Shock and Awe” attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming.I was living in Baghdad at the time, along with other Voices in the Wilderness activists...Syrian delegates push for peaceful resolution of conflict
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — Amidst ongoing violence between the Syrian regime and opposition forces, and serious international discourse on arming the opposition, some Syrian civil society leaders are insisting upon a non-violent approach toward conflict resolution.Dr. Haytham Manna and Dr. Rim Turkmani traveled to New York and Washington......
Accusations swirl over Syrian chemical attack
March 22nd, 20130 A day after an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria Tuesday, international actors weighed in on the event, as the Syrian government and insurgents exchanged accusations over who was responsible for the death of at least 25 people as a result of the toxic chemicals.Syrian state media reported Tuesday that "terrorists fired rockets...Of hope and pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah legacy
“Hi Papa .. Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer lately,” Rachel Corrie wrote to her father, Craig, from Rafah, a town located at the southern end of the Gaza Strip.‘Rachel’s last email’ was not dated on......
College students visit Honduras; bring relief to impoverished residents
DEARBORN — Five Arab American Wayne State University students spent their spring break in Honduras working on projects that bring relief to impoverished people, such as revitalizing current infrastructure and establishing an entirely new framework to improve the quality of life in rural areas. The projects included dam...
Hotline established by ACRL in wake of abrupt, unexplained bank account closures of Arab Americans
March 22nd, 20130 DEARBORN — A local civil rights group is taking action in response to the overwhelming number of complaints it has received from Arab Americans who say their bank accounts were closed abruptly with no reasonable explanation. At a press conference Tuesday, the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) announced that it established......
