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Clinton to address ADC convention
June 12th, 20090 WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton is to accept the ADC Global Leadership Award and deliver keynote remarks on Saturday, June 13 during the 2009 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee National Convention in Washington D.C. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton The three-day convention is also to feature...Twin sisters excel at Crestwood
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For most high school students, the mid-afternoon hours are reserved for hanging out with friends, eating, or perhaps taking a long, refreshing nap. Layal, L, and Zeinab Khocheiche But for Layal and Zeinab Khocheiche of Dearborn Heights Crestwood High School, after school time took on a whole different...Shora appointed to DHS council
WASHINGTON — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced on June 5 that at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). American-Arab...
Ruling party wins in Lebanon
June 10th, 20090 BEIRUT – Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hizbullah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary majority. A Lebanese election official counts ballots after their polling station closed in Zahle in the Bekaa valley June 7, 2009. Lebanese voted on Sunday in...
Arabs praise Obama speech, await actions
June 10th, 20090 Local media flocked to the Lebanese American Heritage Club to hear reaction to President Obama's speech from local Arab American community leaders Osama Siblani, L, Imad Hamad, Hasan Newash and others. PHOTO: Nick Meyer/TAAN DEARBORN — A press conference was held Thursday morning at the Lebanese American Heritage Club in...
Obama’s speech in Egypt aimed at healing rift with the Muslim world
June 10th, 20090 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech in the Grand Hall of Cairo University June 4, 2009. Obama told the world's Muslims on Thursday that violent extremists had exploited tensions between Muslims and the West, and that Islam was not part of the problem but part of promoting peace. REUTERS/MENA "I am honored to be in the...
Reuniting Families Act spurs hope
June 10th, 20090 Over 370,000 available family-preference visas went unused from 2004 to 2008, according to State Department figures. Approximately four million people are currently stuck in the visa entry backlog. Over 2.7 million of these are on a waiting list for visas from the family-preference category. Family-preference visas are used to...A return to resistance in Iraq
At least 20 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual — and in both categories — at least ten times that number. A U.S. soldier walks past a man during a patrol in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad June 2, 2009....Report ties dubious Iran nuclear documents to Israel
WASHINGTON (IPS) — A report on Iran's nuclear program issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicizing an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran's progress in designing a "nuclear warhead" before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003. That false...Palestinian Authority going the Israeli way
RAMALLAH (IPS) — A surge in confidence, following unprecedented U.S. political support, led to the Palestinian Authority's bloody crackdown on a Hamas cell in the northern West Bank on Sunday which left six Palestinians dead. However, reports of questionable Palestinian Authority (PA) tactics, including the use of Palestinian...Obama ties Palestinian cause with Israel’s security and Arab reform
On June 4, in Cairo, President Obama started a promising dialogue with Islam: President Barack Obama waves to the audience as he leaves the Grand Hall of Cairo University after delivering a speech in Cairo June 4, 2009. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic "So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America...The end of free speech?
On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby's bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the U.S. Department of State to monitor anti-Semitism world wide. To monitor anti-Semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe...State Dept issues booklet on being Muslim in America
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) released a booklet entitled "Being Muslim in America" in March. The goal of the bureau is to provide foreign civilians and opinion makers information about U.S. policy, society and values, according to the State Department. This...ACLU seeks reports of electronic device searches at borders, airports
In an effort to gather information about possible civil liberties abuses at U.S. borders, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is looking to speak with individuals who have had a laptop, PDA, BlackBerry, iPod or other electronic device holding large amounts of data taken or searched by agents at any of the state's borders...Student becomes fourth valedictorian in her family
With the winners separated by mere percentage points and the competition fierce, it takes a special inner-drive to become a valedictorian Zeinab Saghir is the fourth Fordson valedictorian from her family. Few know that better than the Saghir family, which has produced four valedictorians at Fordson since 2000, including the 2009......
The lesson of the housekeeper
It is well known that for the past several months, ADC Michigan has been coping with tremendous financial challenges. Similar to other non-profit organizations serving the community, ADC Michigan continues to struggle to survive amidst a frail economy. ADC Michigan is one of the few organizations that does not receive government...CAAO delegation meets with State, Justice officials
CAAO leaders described their meetings with the State and Justice Departments as productive but added that there is much work to be done. PHOTO: TAAN DEARBORN — The Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO) sent delegates to Washington D.C. this past week to meet with senior officials from both the U.S. State Department......
BRIDGES meeting discusses border patrol issues, paid informants
DEARBORN — Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO) representatives met on Thursday at a BRIDGES meeting to discuss with law enforcement officials new travel requirements and allegations of FBI agents sending informants into community mosques. Arab American community leaders meet with federal law enforcement officials on...Corruption in Lebanon elections?
BEIRUT — When Lebanon heads to the polls Jun. 7 to decide whether the Hizbullah-led opposition alliance will unseat the ruling Western-backed coalition, voter anonymity could be compromised by shortcomings in the 2008 parliamentary election law. A Lebanese woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling...Family history counts for women in race to parliament
BEIRUT (IPS) — In Lebanon's Jun. 7 parliamentary poll, women represent only two percent of the candidates, many of them with family names that have been appearing on ballots for generations. A banner of Nayla Tueni, parliamentary candidate and daughter of assassinated MP Gebran Tueni, hangs from a building in Beirut May 27,...West Bank settlements are anathema to the entire world
Moshe Ya'alon, the Strategic Affairs Minister of Israel told Meet the Press last Saturday that his country will not follow American dictates and will not halt construction in the settlements. He was referring to the American demand that Israel halt all settlement activity, voiced by U.S. President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Binyamin......
Obama to address world’s Muslims
May 30th, 20090 White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that President Barack Obama will travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in early June to discuss Mideast peace with that country's King Abdullah, ahead of a much anticipated speech Obama is scheduled to give in Cairo on June 4. U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Palestinian...U.S.-Seoul alert raised over North Korea
The U.S. and South Korea raised the alert level for their security forces on Thursday, a day after North Korea declared it was scrapping the 1953 armistice that brought a halt to the Korean War. A South Korean soldier stands at a guard post near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles)......
Provoking the inevitable in Iraq
On Monday, Iraqi government security forces arrested two prominent Sunni leaders in Iraq's volatile Diyala Province. One of them, Sheikh Riyadh al-Mujami, not coincidentally, is a prominent leader in the local Sahwa (Sons of Iraq), the 100,000-strong Sunni militia that was set up by the U.S. military to quell attacks against...
Obama picks first Hispanic Supreme Court justice
May 30th, 20090 WASHINGTON — President Obama made history Tuesday by nominating the first Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor (L) steps up to speak after U.S. President Barack Obama announced her as his choice of......
