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Nakba 64 commemoration featuring former CIA analyst set for May 20
DEARBORN — The Palestinian Cultural Office of Michigan and friends will present the Nakba 64 commemoration on Sunday, May 20 at the Dearborn Hyatt Regency, featuring keynote speaker Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, as well as singer and songwriter David Rovics. Nakba is an Arabic word meaning “Catastrophe” and refers to the...Report: Former State Rep. Polidori has advanced prostate cancer
DEARBORN – Gino Polidori, a state representative and former Dearborn Fire Chief and City Councilman, has advanced prostate cancer according to a report from the Dearborn Press & Guide. The information came from a TV news report in Indiana. Polidori is reportedly taking part in a University of Michigan health study and using...FBI: No Hizbullah camps in Metro Detroit
DETROIT — Speaking this week at a law enforcement conference in West Bloomfield, Michigan, FBI Special Agent Todd Mayberry, the head of "counter-terrorism" operations inside Michigan, insisted that there are no known active Hizbullah training camps in metro Detroit.Though there doesn't seem to have been any good reason to imagine this...
U.S. diplomats honored at ACCESS dinner as Arab Americans of the Year
May 3rd, 20120 Selwa “Lucky” RooseveltDETROIT — Ambassadors Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt and Edward M. Gabriel accepted awards as 2012 Americans of the Year last Saturday. ACCESS, the largest Arab American human services nonprofit in the United States, bestowed the awards on the former diplomats in front of nearly 2,000 supporters at the...
Bint Jebail Cultural Center holds annual scholarship reception
May 3rd, 20120 A total of 60 scholarships were given out this year by the center, which has given over $500,000 total to deserving winners over the years. PHOTOS: Nafeh AbuNab/TAAN DEARBORN — The Bint Jebail Cultural Center held its 18th Annual Scholarship Ceremony on Friday April 27 where 60 high school students were given scholarship awards of...U.S. government building $2 billion facility in Utah to spy on citizens
The United States government is spending at least $2 billion to build a new spying megaplex in a quiet Utah mountain town, giving it the ability to sift through billions of communications between private citizens.Information about the top secret facility in Bluffdale, Utah is scarce according to a recent report from 'Wired' magazine, but...
UN accuses both sides in Syria of violating ceasefire
May 3rd, 20120 DAMASCUS — Both sides in the Syrian conflict are violating a ceasefire, a top UN official said, as a rights group on Wednesday accused the regime of committing atrocities in the province of Idlib.UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Tuesday that Syrian troops have kept heavy weapons in cities, and that both the government and...
Preliminary hearing rescheduled for Dearborn Heights hit-and-run case
May 2nd, 20120 DEARBORN HEIGHTS - The preliminary hearing for Natalie Hassan, the 23-year-old Dearborn Heights woman who allegedly ran over another local woman with her 2001 Chevy Malibu after a dispute, has been rescheduled by Dearborn Heights Judge David Turfe in a mutual agreement involving all parties. The incident which occurred on April...Community holds farewell reception for Lebanese Consul General to Detroit
Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly gives a city coin as an award to Diab (L) as LIBC President Nassib Fawaz looks on. PHOTO: Nafeh AbuNabDEARBORN – The Lebanese International Business Council (LIBC) held a farewell event for Lebanese Consul General Houssam Diab, whose term as Lebanese Consul General in Detroit will end on May 19....Dearborn man convicted in counterfeit merchandise case
DETROIT — A seventh conviction was reached in a case involving the sale of counterfeit goods across metro Detroit this past Friday.Hassan Aoun, 43 of Dearborn, was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, along with three counts of trafficking in counterfeit goods as well, after a two-week trial.Prosecutors showed...Holocaust survivor, Palestinian activist recalls thousands of heartfelt letters barred from Gaza
Hedy Epstein, an American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause knows firsthand just how moving children's drawings can be. After all it was children's drawings that stood out to her the most among thousands of American written letters that never reached Gaza. EpsteinEpstein was on...Symptoms of a war that must end
“You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can’t bomb the world to peace.” This memorable quote from Michael Franti is fitting for the now decade-long war in Afghanistan. The façade of "progress" in Afghanistan is falling apart. A few days ago, The Los Angeles Times published pictures of U.S. soldiers posing with the...Newt Gingrich to drop out of presidential race
WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich is expected to withdraw next week from the U.S. Republican presidential contest, CNN said on Wednesday, a day after Mitt Romney added to his commanding lead in the Republican race with primary wins in five states. Newt GingrichGingrich will keep his scheduled stops in North Carolina, planned for this week and...Community urged to email CBS on 60 Minutes segment about Palestinian Christians
This past week, something rare happened: A major U.S. media outlet actually showed the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinians. But the candid reporting by '60 Minutes,' America's most respected news program, has unleashed a furious response from major pro-Zionist groups. According to the Jewish Voice for Peace Detroit chapter...Women of the world unite for rights
ISTANBUL — The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the......
Syria blames opposition bomb factory for Hama blast
BEIRUT — Syria blamed "terrorist" bomb-makers on Thursday for an explosion that ripped through a building and killed 16 people in the restive city of Hama, where hostility to President Bashar al-Assad runs deep. Members of the first U.N. monitoring team in Syria, together with members of the Syrian Free Army, visit Homs April 21, 2012....Tunisian government walks fine line among diverse constituents
TUNIS — Thousands of center-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent divisions in Tunisian society. Demonstrators wave flags and shout slogans during a protest in Tunis April 9, 2012. Police......
Emergency managers ballot denial sparks heated emotions, appeal
LANSING — A petition drive that received 40,000 more signatures than necessary in order to allow citizens to vote on whether to keep Michigan's controversial emergency managers in November was shot down on Thursday as the state's Board of State Canvassers reached a 2-2 deadlock.Despite more than 203,000 signatures in support of Public...
Hit-and-run leaves local woman in a coma
April 27th, 20120 Community searching for answers Achkar (left) is still fighting for her life at Oakwood Hospital’s intensive care unit; her friend Nancy Faraj (right) suffered bruises. DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A hit-and-run altercation that left one Dearborn Heights woman critically injured on Wednesday April 18 at an apartment complex on Garling Dr off...
Supreme Court appears to uphold Arizona immigration law
April 27th, 20120 PHOENIX — How individual states and the nation deal with undocumented immigrants could see a major change in upcoming months. Supreme Court justices, weighing arguments over Arizona's tough immigration law, seemed to find little problem Wednesday with provisions that require police to check the legal status of people they...Morocco clamors for justice
CASABLANCA — A government plan to reform Morocco's dilapidated justice system, the details of which are still a mystery to the general public, has become the subject of much skepticism, especially from justice professionals around the country. Demonstrators chant slogans during a demonstration called by the February 20 movement, in......
Qana victims mourned at commemoration of twin massacres against Dearborn’s sister city
April 27th, 20120 Consul General of Lebanon to Detroit Houssam Diab speaks: “The only thing that will deter Israel is our perseverance in pointing out the truth about the war crimes committed and that are still being committed against our people,” Diab said. PHOTOS: Nafeh AbuNab/TAAN DEARBORN — Remembering even a single innocent murder...
Dearborn Police arrest two in donation box theft case
April 27th, 20120 DEARBORN — Dearborn Police caught the man spotted stealing an Al-Mabarrat charity donation box on camera from Al-Basha Subs of Dearborn Heights earlier this month. He was arrested at his home here last Saturday, where he confessed to stealing a total of five of the charity's donation boxes. Then Monday night the thievery......
Military to review course teaching “U.S. at war with Islam”
April 27th, 20120 WASHINGTON — The United States’ top military officer ordered a review of training material after a course for officers was found to espouse the view that the United States is at war with Islam, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The review, which was first reported by Wired.com, was prompted by a complaint by a soldier who had recently...
Global Educational Excellence celebrates re-opening of two Detroit charter schools
April 27th, 20120 DETROIT — Global Educational Excellence (GEE) celebrated two grand re-openings on Tuesday for Detroit Charter schools White Academy and Edmonson Academy, bringing optimism to two schools whose futures were in limbo last year when they were about to be closed by the city as a result of students performing below the state level. GEE......
