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Local charity group helps increase breast cancer awareness with female football tournament
DEARBORN — Play for the Cure, a charity group that was started by Dearborn resident Shireen Hachem and her husband Bassel Hachem, helps spread awareness on the serious conditions of breast cancer by bringing together young women in the community in a unique way. The women compete in a yearly football tournament hoping to raise proceeds...Arab man brutally beaten after car accident
DEARBORN — An Arab American man was brutally beaten around noon Thursday after getting involved in a car accident and checking to see whether others involved were fine.Three vehicles are known to have been involved. One was among several other vehicles driving West on Ford Road in a funeral procession. Initially the victim was...ACCESS health conference reveals obesity, smoking among major global problems
DEARBORN — The sixth international Conference on Health Issues in Arab countries was held at the Dearborn Inn by Access last week, where over 300 people and representatives from 17 countries were in attendance. The event not only focused on the health issues of Arabs in the Middle East, but also on health issues with Americans in...Jessica Mokdad’s stepfather convicted in her slaying
MT. CLEMENS — Rahim Alfetlawi, the stepfather of 20-year-old Jessica Mokdad was convicted in her slaying death that occurred April 2011 in Warren. A Macomb County Circuit Court jury in Mount Clemens deliberated for a short period of time before reaching its decision recently. Mokdad was shot to death at her grandmother’s...Education, elections discussed at Islamic Institute of Knowledge fundraiser
DEARBORN — On Sunday October 21 the Islamic Institute of Knowledge (IIOK) located on Schaefer Road held their semi-annual fundraising dinner, where hundreds of guests turned out to support the organization and get the latest updates on a center that has established itself in the Dearborn community since 1983.The event, emceed by Bilal...
Crestwood School Board holds special meeting, attacks candidate Soueidan over campaign article comments
October 29th, 20120 DEARBORN HEIGHTS - On Monday members of the Crestwood Board of Education, and the district’s superintendent met at Crestwood High School to discuss information published in an article by The Arab American News (TAAN) this month on Hamid Soueidan, who was appointed to the board in August. Soueidan is currently a candidate for...
Dearborn School Board candidates discuss state school rankings, promise improvements
October 29th, 20120 DEARBORN - As Dearborn Board of Education members Aimee Blackburn and Mary Lane run for re-election they’re being struck with questions about the state of Michigan ranking some schools in the district as Focus Schools.Both Fordson and Edsel Ford High School among other schools received the title after some students performed below...
Connie Kelley hopes to implement stronger family laws in Supreme Court
October 29th, 20120 LANSING — Michigan Supreme Court candidate Connie Kelley hopes that she can represent hard working middle class families if elected to serve in the highest level of court in the state of Michigan. After serving 27 years as a lawyer, Kelley followed that by holding a position in the Wayne County Circuit Court, where she currently serves...Local businesswomen raise the bar on child care service
DEARBORN — Two local women are raising the bar on child care with the launch of their new business that’s centered around serving children in a healthy, clean and educational environment. Samera Ajami and Faten Fawzi, the managers and founders of Oakman Child Care and Development, LLC have received an overwhelming demand for...Romney anything but a moderate on foreign policy issues
I have been reading Mitt Romney's memoir, ‘No Apology.’ It is as if Romney is two people, one a wise, thoughtful person who could work with Democrats and lead the country, the other an unreflective, unsophisticated ideologue who is dangerous. The chapter on health care shows a man who has done his homework. I know this field...Obama lead shrinking in Michigan despite improved debate performances
The tightening of the Presidential race nationally has once again seeped into Michigan, and polling statistics show a huge opportunity for the Mitt Romney campaign in the latest Foster McCollum White Baydoun (FMW)B poll for Fox 2 News Detroit of Michigan's most likely voters. President Barack Obama and Romney, the Republican...Damascus agrees to four-day Eid ceasefire
Damascus announced it has agreed to a four-day ceasefire across Syria for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, the ‘Feast of Sacrifice.’ The truce will begin on Friday. A member of the Free Syrian Army fires at a sniper as he runs for cover during clashes with pro-government forces in Harem town, Idlib Governorate, October, 25, 2012. ...Israel an apartheid state? A majority of Jews say yes
A majority of Israeli Jews admit they are living in an apartheid state, a recent survey claimed. Many also believed that Palestinians should be denied the right to vote, and suggested that Jewish citizens should be given preferential treatment.Some 500 Jewish adults took part in the survey, answering questions put together by a group of...Israel‘s formula for a starvation diet
Nazareth — Six and a half years go, shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian national elections and took charge of Gaza, a senior Israeli official described Israel’s planned response. “The idea,” he said, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” A Palestinian woman sells vegetables on a...Israel strikes Sudan military facility
Sudan's information minister has accused Israel of striking a Sudanese military factory Wednesday causing it to explode and burst into flames.An AFP reporter several kilometres (miles) away saw two or three fires flaring across a wide area, with heavy smoke and intermittent flashes of white light bursting above the state-owned Yarmouk......
Jewish, Christian groups clash over U.S. aid to Israel
WASHINGTON (IPS) — Jewish groups have reacted furiously to a letter to Congress by 15 leaders of Christian denominations asking for a review of whether some of the three billion dollars in annual United States aid to Israel is being used in violation of U.S. law and policies.After pulling out of an interfaith dialogue conference,...Bombing leaves Lebanon shaken
BEIRUT (IPS) — The assassination of Lebanon’s top security official on Friday not only ravaged a quiet Beirut neighbourhood but also shattered the precarious sense of security many Lebanese have been desperately clinging to in recent months.Wissam al-Hassan, chief of Lebanon’s internal security services, was killed by a massive car......
U.S. Muslims could be critical voting bloc
October 29th, 20120 WASHINGTON (IPS) — With Barack Obama and Mitt Romney virtually tied with Election Day less than two weeks away, Muslim voters could play an unexpected critical role in deciding the outcome Nov. 6.A poll of 500 registered Muslim voters released here Wednesday found that more than two-thirds (68 percent) currently plan to vote for...#StopNDAA — What Obama and Romney didn’t touch on during the debate
The defense bill that lets the government indefinitely detain any US citizen without charge or trial wasn't mentioned once during the three presidential debates, but that didn’t stop activists from sounding off: #StopNDAA went worldwide Monday night.A campaign aimed at drawing awareness to the National Defense Authorization Act for...
U.S.: Greater Middle East dominates the last debate
October 29th, 20120 WASHINGTON (IPS) — U.S. strategy in the Greater Middle East, which has dominated foreign policy-making since the 9/11 attacks more than 11 years ago, similarly dominated the third and last debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Monday night.The biggest surprise of the debate, which was supposed to be devoted...The glaring contradiction in anti-Iran policy
President Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have at least one thing in common when it comes to Iran. All are guilty of flagrant self-contradiction.Each says that a nuclear-armed Iran could not be effectively contained the way the U.S. government contained the......
Soueidan lays out plans for revamping school district
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Hamid Soueidan's appointment onto the Crestwood School Board in August gave Arab American parents a new voice to rely on, after months of public outcry demanding that the district show some form of representation for Arab American students. But Soueidan's relationship with Crestwood is nothing new, in fact, it traces...Hussein says hope in students’ futures sparked interest for position
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Zaineb Hussein started volunteering her time as a counselor and tutor to students at an after school program here long before she decided to launch a campaign to compete as a candidate for the Crestwood School Board. Hussein says she donates her time because she believes and cares about the futures of students.......
YABA urges women to pursue higher education
DEARBORN — Speaking at a ceremony for the Yemeni American Benevolent Association (YABA) Oct. 13 Aswan Almaktary, the director of a women’s program said while women have built successful careers in fields such as law, medicine and engineering there are still many who haven’t had the opportunity to fulfill their...
Tigers sweep Yankees, prepare for next Wednesday’s World Series opener
October 19th, 20120 Detroit Tigers celebrate winning Game 4 against the New York Yankees in their MLB ALCS baseball playoff series in Detroit. REUTERSDETROIT - The Detroit Tigers are on their way back to the World Series for the first time in six years after a dominating 8-1 AL Championship Series win over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.The win......
