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New Dearborn Heights café specializes in baking bread with traditional oven
Saj Cafe of Dearborn Heights offers a variety of healthy and tasteful entrees freshly prepared using saj bread, which is thinner than pita bread. Saj is an authentic grill top used to bake saj bread. Co-owner Hussein Siblini said the "old fashion grill" can be found in Lebanon and its neighboring countries. Saj...Journalism Institute for Media Diversity celebrates 25 yearsat WSU
Students Jill Grandison, Hyatt Fathy, Aysha JamalShena Penn and Nargis Rahman after the JIM Anniversary Gala & Fundraiser at the Wayne State Community Arts Auditorium. PHOTO: Nick Meyer/TAANDETROIT – Some of the biggest names in local journalism from television to print and radio were honored on...St. Mary’s Church announces fourth annual “SaharaFest”
LIVONIA, MI — The Basilica of St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church announces their Fourth annual "Sahara Fest," featuring Arabic food, music and culture. The Sahara Fest will take place on June 2-5, 2011 at St. Mary's Church grounds, 18100 Merriman Road (between Six and Seven Mile Roads),...Strauss-Kahn scandal: Worlds collide in a luxury suite inNew York
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted with a high hand in resolving her affairs in places like Côte d'Ivoire, a name she had...Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets members of Congress after addressing a Joint Meeting of Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on May 24, 2011.If anyone had any doubt about whether the Palestinians would declare a state in September, they can't have them now. On...
Obama to Israel: Take whatever you want
May 28th, 20110 President Barack Obama delivers remarks at AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC.In 2008, Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, pandered to pro-Israeli voters and Israel by promising in a speech addressed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), that Jerusalem would...
Egypt to open Gaza border crossing permanently
May 28th, 20110 Egypt reopened border, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four years.CAIRO — Egypt will open the Rafah border crossing on a daily basis starting this weekend in a bid to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the official MENA news agency reported on Wednesday. Palestinians...Arab Spring solidarity defies national boundaries
VANCOUVER (IPS) — Ever since the ousting of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ordinary citizens have been leading uprisings all over North Africa and the Middle East against unwanted rulers. But what is now known as the "Arab Awakening" is not confined to people resisting within their own borders....
Hizbullah urges Syrians to back Assad regime
May 28th, 20110 Supporters of Lebanon's Hizbullah gesture and wave Hezbollah flags as they listen to a televised address by their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a rally marking Resistance and Liberation Day in Lebanese village of Nabi sheet, in Bekaa, May 25, 2011, commemorating the 11th anniversary of...Libyan PM to propose immediate ceasefire
Libya's Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi speaks during a news conference in Tripoli May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiLONDON — Moamer Gaddafi's Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will send international leaders a message proposing an immediate UN-monitored ceasefire in Libya, Britain's...
Street battles raise specter of civil war in Yemen
May 28th, 20110 Armed tribesmen loyal to Yemeni tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar patrol outside his house in Sanaa May 26, 2011. Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gun battles in the capital, government officials said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade-long...
Palestinians call Netanyahu conditions “war”
May 28th, 20110 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called his vision for peace with the Palestinians Tuesday, but listed a set of conditions the Palestinians immediately called "a declaration of war." Speaking before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress that capped five...
U.S. launches global diaspora initiative
May 28th, 20110 WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week announced that the State Department was adding a fourth "D" to its toolbox of Diplomacy, Development and Defense: Diaspora. Marking an historic shift in the agency's view of global migrants, Clinton spoke at the opening of a...
Arab Knesset member questions Israel’s “democracy” at local event
May 28th, 20110 Keynote Speaker Haneen Zoabi at Wednesday's American Muslims for Palestine banquet in Dearborn at Greenfield Manor. PHOTO: Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite StudiosDEARBORN - While addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said only Israel's...
How to lose friends and alienate Muslims, GOP edition
May 28th, 20110 In late January 2001, the day after George W. Bush was sworn into office, a group of conservative politicos including recently retired House Speaker Newt Gingrich gathered at Grover Norquist's Washington, D,C. office for a meeting with influential faith leaders. That, in itself, was hardly......
Gov. Snyder says Michigan’s anti-immigration bill isunnecessary and divisive
DETROIT — Speaking at the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's annual public policy breakfast, Gov. Rick Snyder expressed opposition towards Michigan's proposed anti-immigration bill. Following Snyder's speech, which noted the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans, local...Immigration group preparing for awareness month
DEARBORN — The Alliance for Immigrants Rights & Reform (AIR) will be holding three important meetings in the month of June in regards to immigration awareness. The events will help educate immigrants and community members of their rights and acknowledge the struggles that immigrants face......
Unfinished ADC Center for Civil and Human Rights posted forsale due to funding obstacles
May 28th, 20110 The ADC Center for Civil and Human Rights was recently put up for sale due to financial issues.DEARBORN – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan announced this week that the property and building for the unfinished American-Arab Center for Civil and Human Rights (ACCHR)...
U.S. boat ‘The Audacity of Hope’ to sail to Gaza in June
May 28th, 20110 NEW YORK— The U.S. Boat to Gaza campaign announced earlier this month that it will send a U.S. flagged boat, "The Audacity of Hope," to Gaza in late June as part of the International Freedom Flotilla II. The passengers on the boat, which will sail from a port in the Mediterranean, are U.S. citizens from many...
ACLU-Michigan seeks ICE records on illegal detention of U.S.citizen
May 28th, 20110 DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a Freedom of Information Act request this week seeking records from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the illegal detention of a U.S. citizen and his mother who is a legal permanent resident. The Grand...The sacred and the secular — promoting Muslim democracy
CHICAGO (IPS) — The presence of religion in public space challenges our ideas about the roles of faith in our lives and politics. Over the last centuries, proponents of secularisation have claimed that as societies modernise, the role of religion in public and private life diminishes. For them,......
California mosque fire ruled arson
SACRAMENTO, CA — The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) this week said an April 23 fire at a Stockton, Calif., mosque has been ruled arson. CAIR-SV is asking that a possible bias motive for the fire be investigated. Law enforcement authorities...Appeals court rules against Dearborn in Arab Festival case
DETROIT — A federal court says it was illegal to bar a Christian evangelist from passing leaflets at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn last year according to various reports. The appeals court ruled 2-1 Thursday in the case of George Saieg of Anaheim, Calif. The decision comes less......
Man accused of plotting mosque attack to have mental hearing
DETROIT — Roger Stockham, the 63-year-old man who was arrested outside of the Islamic Center of America for plotting to detonate highly-explosive fireworks earlier this year, has been ordered to undergo a mental competency test by Wayne County Judge Bruce Morrow. Stockham, who has a mental...Peace activists hold celebration of international flotilla
ANN ARBOR — Ann Arbor-based Michigan Peaceworks will sponsor a peace picnic and demonstration on Friday, June 24 to celebrate the launch of the international humanitarian flotilla bringing food and medicine to Gaza. The peace picnic will take place near Gallup Park in Ann Arbor. The......
