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Islamic House of Wisdom hosts successful fundraising dinner
Imams, interfaith leaders and U.S. Rep. John Conyers (third from left, bottom row). DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Semi-Annual Fundraising dinner at IHW was held Sunday, April 22 with the presence of Ayatollah Sheikh Abdul-Latif Berry, Imams, board members of local Islamic Organizations, interfaith clergy, Congressman John Conyers, Dr....Vietnam, Afghanistan, and The Pentagon’s memory failure
Wars of Attrition: Green zones of the mind, guerrillas, and a technical knockout in AfghanistanRecently, after insurgents unleashed sophisticated, synchronized attacks across Afghanistan involving dozens of fighters armed with suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and small arms, as well as car bombs, the Pentagon was quick to...
Chances of Assad falling highly exaggerated
April 27th, 20120 For the past year, I've been intrigued listening to expert after expert tells us that Bashar Assad is going down and his ouster is just a matter of time. He has been called a "dead man walking" by the U.S. State Department. Israel's defense minister has insisted that Assad will fall in a matter of weeks. Just last month, President...New Detroit budget would slash 2,500 jobs, $250M in payroll
DETROIT — The city council will begin deliberating over a new budget proposal by Mayor Dave Bing next week that includes massive cuts to public employees, services and more.About 2,500 positions are expected to be cut in all city departments to the tune of about $250 million if it passes according to a report in the Detroit Free...
Donnell White embraces leadership role as Detroit NAACP prepares to celebrate 100 years
April 27th, 20120 DETROIT — The civil rights movement for Arab Americans is still a work in progress considering the tremendous new wave of challenges it has faced in the last ten-plus years, but activists and leaders have a blueprint to follow for getting things done in Detroit and across the nation in the NAACP. NAACP Executive Director Donnell...Hundreds attend first student dinner event at Byblos
Former Fordson principal Imad Fadlallah (C) poses with college and high school students after being awarded at the STAT dinner on April 13. PHOTO: Nafeh AbuNab/TAAN DEARBORN – The Fordson High School group Students Taking Action Today (STAT) held its first annual dinner at Byblos Banquet Hall on Friday, April 13 bringing...Dearborn Stars hold season kick-off event
DEARBORN – A season kick-off dinner for the Dearborn Stars soccer club was held on Wednesday, April 25 at Byblos Banquet Hall for the organization, which plays in the Michigan Premier Soccer League and various tournaments. The team's season will begin with the 2012 National Cup on Sunday, May 6 against Ann Arbor FC.The sponsor for...Occupy Detroit planning ‘May Day’ march, protests
DETROIT – The Occupy Detroit movement is planning a series of events for International Workers Day on Tuesday, May 1, including a march and rally from Clark Park to Grand Circus Park in the city. Many people across the U.S. will be taking off work and school that day in a general strike, a “day without the 99 percent.” The Students...Darany announces run for reelection in 15th District
DEARBORN – State Rep. George T. Darany is hoping to serve for another two years, as he announced on Tuesday that he will run for reelection as a representative for Michigan's 15th House District.Darany served on the Dearborn City Council for four years and has been active in community causes, and he has owned and operated the Classic...New law makes it illegal to lie to police officers in Michigan
LANSING – Last Friday, a new bill was signed into law making it illegal to lie or conceal facts from Michigan police officers investigating a crime.People have the right to remain silent according to the law but must tell the truth when speaking. The law is similar to the federal one regarding agents. According to the ACLU,...City of Dearborn public budget hearing set for May 14
DEARBORN - The City Council is currently reviewing Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Jr.’s proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget and has set 6 p.m. Monday, May 14 as the date for the public hearing. It will take place in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 13615 Michigan Ave.The budget adoption meeting, also open to the public, is scheduled to...
‘Rejecting Islamophobia: A Community Stand Against Hate’ event to be held April 29
April 22nd, 20120 DEARBORN – In order to counter-act the “Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference” in Dearborn that many say is being used as a platform for anti-Muslim bigotry by conservative commentator Pamela Geller and others, an event titled “Rejecting Islamophobia: A Community Stand Against Hate” will be held on Sunday, April...
Tickets available now for Marcel Khalife performance on April 27
April 22nd, 20120 Marcel Khalife, the UNESCO World Artist for Peace, and a Middle Eastern music icon, will be in Detroit for a very special concert with Omaima El-Khalil and the Mayadin Music Ensemble sponsored by the Arab Student Union at Wayne State University. The event, titled "Fall of the Moon," will feature the work of the great...Dearborn woman in critical condition after hit-and-run
DEARBORN - Three Dearborn women were reportedly involved in a hit-and-run that left one of them, 23-year-old Hanan Askar, critically injured on Thursday evening. Askar was taken to Oakwood hospital where she is currently in a coma. According to family members the incident occurred on Evergreen and Garling St. It is believed the...Arab Americans discuss troubling experiences at U.S.-Canada border
Dearborn resident Wissam Charafeddine knows the names of a few Customs Border Protection (CBP) officers at the U.S. Canada border because he’s been handcuffed and detained there so much. "I know the officers and their names," he said. During one trip he even directed a new CBP officer on how to take his fingerprints properly......
Community meets with U.S. Assistant Attorney General over civil rights
DEARBORN – The BRIDGES program has been a major channel of communication for the Arab American, American Muslim and Chaldean communities with government and law enforcement agencies in expressing their concerns about post-9/11 challenges, but many of them have continued to linger and have even grown in complexity in recent...Son charged with murder of Dearborn schools official Cipriano
FARMINGTON HILLS — The Dearborn Public Schools district continues to mourn the loss of Business Services Director Robert Cipriano, who was killed in the early morning hours of Monday after a break-in at his home. Robert Cipriano (L) and Tucker Cipriano. Tucker and another man, Mitchell Young, have been charged with murder......
Jones, BAMN mirror images of each other
On April 7, Terry Jones, the Qur'an-burning pastor from Florida, stood in front of the Islamic Center of America to condemn Islamic religious law (shari'a) and the alleged Muslim effort to sabotage the Constitution. He renounced the Christian churches for criticizing him. As a professor who teaches about Religion and Politics, I was...U.S. condemns soldiers’ actions in Afghanistan
Probe ordered into behavior depicted by images showing troops posing with mangled bodies of suspected suicide bombersGraphic photos published in an American newspaper show U.S. soldiers posing with the mangled bodies of suspected Afghan suicide bombers. A soldier from the Army’s 82nd Airborne with a dead insurgent’s hand on his...One year later: Workers march for lost wages, fair work conditions
LIVONIA — More than 200 supporters marched and rallied in front of the Mastronardi Produce plant here on Sunday demanding that the company negotiate fairly with workers over unpaid wages and unsafe working conditions. Workers during the protest. PHOTO: AIRThe march took place on the one-year anniversary of a class action lawsuit...Syria and UN agree to monitoring deal
BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS —Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement on Thursday on the terms of a ceasefire monitoring mission, a witness at the Foreign Ministry in Damascus said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe (2ndL) attend a meeting "Friends of Syria" in Paris April 19, 2012.......
100th ANNIVERSARY: The Titanic’s untold Arab stories
April 20th, 20120 We have all grown familiar with the story of the Titanic, the passenger liner that sank in the Northern Atlantic in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. This week as the tragedy marked its 100th Anniversary, the stories and accounts from that horrific day that resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 people have resurfaced. What many might not...
Obama campaigns in Dearborn, visits city for first time
April 20th, 20120 Obama touts “over-delivering” on his promise of change in DearbornDEARBORN — "In just three years, because of what you did in 2008, we've began to see what change looks like," President Barack Obama said speaking at the Henry Ford Museum here Wednesday. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a democratic party fundraiser at the......
It’s official: There is a Muslim exemption to the First Amendment
April 20th, 20120 David Stone and members of his Hutaree anti-government militia amassed a huge arsenal of weapons, including the ingredients for explosives, and allegedly plotted to kill a police officer and bomb his funeral. A federal judge in Michigan said they were just venting and exercising their First Amendment rights.Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year-old...Egypt’s barred Islamist candidate takes aim at military rulers
The powerful Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater, barred from Egypt's first post-Arab Spring presidential election, accused the country's military rulers on Wednesday of seeking to stay in power and promised an anti-government protest.He spoke after the electoral commission confirmed that 10 candidates had been barred from standing,......
