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Tryouts being held for Chaldean Football League
West Bloomfield — Try-outs for the Chaldean Football League (CFL) are 9 a.m. Sunday, July 11. at West Bloomfield High School. Participants can't be younger than 18 years old. CFL, an American football league, has been around since 1981 and is among the most organized and competitive Chaldean sports leagues. CFL games are played every...Maronite church to hold Middle East festival
FLINT — The Our Lady of Lebanon Middle East Festival is Friday, July 9. from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. and Saturday July 10. from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Flint. The festival will feature live music by Jad Soudah, dancing, beer tent, Arab American comedy show by Fady Asmar and Middle East...
CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr protested
July 9th, 20100 CNN’s firing of Senior Middle East News Editor Octavia Nasr has prompted an outcry from Arab-Americans, angry about what they see as a double standard when it comes to coverage of the Middle East in the American media. Octavia Nasr Nasr’s 20-year career at CNN ended Wednesday after a tweet mourning the death of Sayyed...Poland orders Israeli Mossad extradition
An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel in January will be extradited to Germany on suspicion of forgery, a Polish court has ruled. Uri Brodsky, a suspected Mossad agent, is accused by Germany of spying and of helping to falsely obtain a German passport allegedly used in...Genetic damage and health in Fallujah, Iraq worse than Hiroshima
Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by Malak Hamdan and Chris Busby were published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH) based in Basle, Switzerland. They show increases in cancer, leukemia and infant mortality and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex...
World loses great Islamic thinker, scholar
July 8th, 20100 In one of his Friday sermons in January, 75-year-old Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohamed Hussein Fadlullah, who died Sunday in Beirut, spoke to his followers about "true Islam." "The true Islam," he said, "wants us to base our lives on reason and to elevate it by means of knowledge, so as to enrich it and be enriched by it." This sentence...
Obama and Netanyahu all smiles
July 8th, 20100 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Insisting that the bond between their two nations was "unbreakable," U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emerged all smiles from their long-awaited White House meeting here Tuesday. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval...High demand for ACC training and job placement program
LATHRUP VILLAGE — With Michigan's economy continuing to lag behind the vast majority of other U.S. states, the need for assistance in helping locals find work remains paramount. Thankfully for unemployed citizens in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties, the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) is prepared to help after receiving...Local rapper recounts immigrant experience on new CD
While rap and hip-hop have helped make a lot of people rich in the past few decades, there was a time when the music genre meant way more than money to those who produced it. Before big-money corporate interests got hold of it, rap music was a way for the disenfranchised and the oppressed to express themselves and blow off steam...Bouchard Endorsed by Michigan Police Organization
ROCHESTER HILLS - Mike Bouchard, a candidate for governor from the Michigan Republican Party, recently received an endorsement from the Michigan Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), an organization that represents over 11,500 members across the state. The endorsement comes on the heels of Bouchard’s latest endorsements from...Community raises funds for Republican gubernatorial candidate in Dearborn
Retired Wayne County Deputy Chief Marwan Taleb (second from left), his wife Sally Taleb (to his right), and Michigan Attorney General/Gubernatorial Candidate Mike Cox (to her right) attended.PHOTO: Marc GorskiDEARBORN — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox spoke at a fundraising dinner at Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn on Thursday,...Ramadan speaks in support of MLFA
"It just sad, it’s just unbelievable that we can treat people with such commitment for justice and dignity, to be put in jail for supporting the Palestinians.” These were the opening words of guest speaker Tariq Ramadan’s keynote address on Saturday June 19, at the Muslim Legal Fund of America’s first benefit dinner in...White mice and teachers steer doctor to help people with cancer
When Ahmed Ezz was 4 years old his father, a pharmacologist involved in medication irradiation and cancer research at the universities of Alexandria, Egypt, and Chicago, used to let his son tag along to his laboratory to explore. "Of course, being a little kid you love those white lab mice," says Ezz, now a prominent radiation...Foundation, BCBSM raise funds for colitis, Crohn’s disease
DETROIT — Scores of supporters gathered at the Detroit Riverfront starting at Rivard Park on Saturday, June 26 for the "Take Steps: Be Heard for Crohn's and Colitis" walk with the goal of raising funds and awareness for the diseases. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the intestines and/or the mouth and anus with no current...Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Righting a perpetual wrong
Finally, a parliamentary debate in Lebanon over the human rights of Palestinian refugees. What is unfortunate though, is that granting basic civil rights to over 400,000 Palestinians - 62 years after their expulsion from their historic homeland and the issuing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — has been a topic of "debate"......
Israel will not last for more than 30 years
In the last couple of years I have come to realize that the two-state solution is not likely to happen, at least anytime in the next 100 years. I'm not a political scientist, and indeed no expert on the conflict, but I do think that demographic realities dictate that unless the Palestinian people are given a homeland, a democratic Jewish...Superior service and customer satisfaction earn Fairlane Ford of Dearborn national award
Dearborn — Fairlane Ford is among an elite group of Ford and Lincoln Mercury dealerships to be recognized with The 2009 President's Award by Ford Motor Company. The prestigious award honors dealerships that have excelled in automotive retailing in 2009, by providing exceptional customer service and satisfaction. This year, Ford......
No way out of this town: This light is always red
SHEIKH SA'AD, Occupied Eastern Jerusalem — A traffic light, yet no traffic at all. In fact, a traffic light...for pedestrians only. And even they move little. There are restrictions on walking out of this village (pop. 3,000). The 1,200 villagers who carry Palestinian identity papers have no way of crossing the barrier to leave...BP in the Gulf — the Persian Gulf: A long, infamous history
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more! Does boycotting BP really make sense? Perhaps not. After all, many BP filling stations are actually owned by local people, not the corporation itself. Besides, when you're filling up at a...One West Bank town’s “Unarmed Courage”
WASHINGTON — Ayed Morrar is just one man. A quiet man, of small stature, whose kind but intense eyes look out from behind wire-rimmed glasses. But he is a man who has become the face of the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement. Morrar is the central figure in the recently released film "Budrus," about the people of the...
Anti-immigrant state laws could multiply, Obama warns
July 2nd, 20100 WASHINGTON (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama criticized "ill conceived" immigration laws in Arizona and called on Republicans to end their opposition to immigration reform and pass bipartisan immigration reform in a speech delivered Thursday morning. Immigration reform has become a pressing issue in Washington as individual states,......
White mice and teachers steer doctor to help people with cancer
When Ahmed Ezz was 4 years old his father, a pharmacologist involved in medication irradiation and cancer research at the universities of Alexandria, Egypt, and Chicago, used to let his son tag along to his laboratory to explore. "Of course, being a little kid you love those white lab mice," says Ezz, now a prominent radiation...
Rights groups look at proposed Michigan law
July 2nd, 20100 With the Immigration Law Enforcement Act, which will give local police officers the right to detain anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, proposed in Michigan, many citizens are concerned that the proposed authority will lead to misuse and abuse of power by local law enforcement officers. In view of the concern,......
As Canada’s democracy trembles, a new global architecture emerges
TORONTO (IPS) — Nearly 600 people were arrested as global leaders and elites met behind a fortified perimeter during the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto this weekend. The tension was palpable on the subway as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) announced that under a "police directive" all routes in and out of the...DPS investigated for civil rights issue
DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public Schools System became subject to a federal civil rights investigation into its communication policies with non-English-speaking families this month as part of a nationwide review of 38 school districts. Because of the district's 7,000+ English-language learners, the vast majority of them Arab Americans,......
