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No evidence of Iranian weapons program, despite rhetoric
June 4th, 20110 Seymour Hersh reports in the latest issue of The New Yorker that "despite years of covert operations inside Iran, extensive satellite imagery, and the recruitment of Iranian intelligence assets, the United States and its allies, including Israel, have been unable to find irrefutable evidence of an...Michigan real estate hit hard by foreclosed homes
DETROIT — MICHIGAN-Realty Trac, a company that publishes the largest database of foreclosed, auction and bank owned homes in the country, has found that foreclosure has greatly affected the state in the first quarter of 2011. Realty Trac reports that 32% of the homes sold within the first quarter...Dearborn Judge Hultgren testifies in discrimination lawsuit from ex-employee
DEARBORN — Judge William Hultgren of the 19th District Court testified last Thursday in a trial over whether or not former Dearborn probation officer Simone Calvas' civil rights were violated when she was fired by the court's chief judge Mark Somers in fall 2007, according to a report in the...State budget approved early despite some worries
LANSING — The $46 billion state budget for the upcoming fiscal year has been completed earlier than expected. The budget, which was approved by a Republican led legislature, goes into effect on October 1 and will see cuts in educational aid as well as state departments. According to the Associated...Dearborn Heights city budget approved
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In a 4-2 city council vote, the Dearborn Heights general government budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, beginning on July 1, was approved last Tuesday. Coming in at $36.4 million, the approved budget was $1.7 million less than that of the current fiscal year. Councilwoman...Major changes coming for tax laws on Michigan businesses
LANSING —The Associated Press is reporting that Governor Rick Snyder has just signed "the most sweeping tax change in the state since 1994." The change cuts overall business taxes by $1 billion in the upcoming fiscal year beginning on October 1 and $1.7 billion the following year. The change will...ALUG invites Lebanese college graduates to participate in future networking gatherings
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — More than 40 people gathered at Al-Amer restaurant in Dearborn Heights for a breakfast held by the American Lebanese University Graduates (ALUG). ALUG was formed in 1996 with the objective of bringing together university graduates of Lebanese decent with various...Community’s participation in national survey critical toaddressing health care needs of Arab Americans
DETROIT — Wayne County has been selected for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which is conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the next few weeks CDC representatives will be visiting homes in the region to ask short and easy questions about one or...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......
