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Hussein Berry elected to Dearborn School Board, O’Donnell unseats Thomas
November 7th, 20090 Campaign volunteers are seen from inside a passing car outside McDonald Elementary School polling stations on Election Day. PHOTO: Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite Studios DEARBORN — Tuesday's elections will result in some moderate shakeups in city councils and school boards of several municipalities. Sekna Yehya, 39,...
Outrage erupts after killing of imam
November 7th, 20090 Groups call for independent investigation of FBI actions Several rights groups continue to speak out against the FBI's fatal shooting of the leader of a Detroit Muslim community on October 28. Omar Regan, the son of slain Detroit Muslim leader Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, embraces a family member. PHOTO: Pan-African News...IRS effort to provide bilingual tax help Nov. 7
DETROIT — The Internal Revenue Service has announced a special event called Solution Saturday. The program offers personalized tax help to over four million taxpayers in the Metro Detroit area, one of only five cities around the country sponsoring the event. Assistance in Arabic will be available or you can bring your own...
Arabs and Muslims condemn Fort Hood attack
November 7th, 20090 An Army officer identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at a Texas military base Thursday, killing 13 and wounding 31, according to several news agencies. Major Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified as a suspect in the shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from...
Lessons from election day
November 7th, 20090 As the dust settles from Tuesday's municipal election in Dearborn, I, like many who analyzed the detailed numbers, see good news and bad news. And from what I have heard since Tuesday, it is clear that the individual candidates and their supporters have their own views on what went well and what went bad. Tarek...
Abbas: I’ll not seek re-election
November 7th, 20090 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said he will not run in presidential elections he has called for in January, saying he had had enough after years of frustration fighting for an independent homeland. "I have told our brethren in the PLO ... that I have no desire to...Homicides down, more cases closed under new Detroit Police Chief, internal numbers show
DETROIT — Detroit Police seem to have turned a corner in preventing and closing homicide cases, according to data released by Mayor Dave Bing and Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans at a news conference Oct. 26. In the third quarter of 2009, Detroit Police recorded 96 criminal homicides, compared to 111 in the third quarter of...
Election results bring moderate change
November 4th, 20090 Tuesday's elections will result in some moderate shakeups in upcoming city council and school board terms of several municipalities. Voter Hassane Oseili enters his ballot at McDonald Elementary School in Dearborn on Tuesday. PHOTOS: Khalil AlHajal/TAAN "We're hoing for...
Israel rations Palestinians to trickle of water
November 4th, 20090 Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies. A Palestinian boy drinks water from a public tap in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 27, 2009. Human rights group...Arab American could take Hamtramck mayoral race
Longtime Hamtramck resident and Yemeni American chiropractor Abdul Algazali stands poised to become the first Arab American mayor in the city's history. Mayoral candidate Dr. Abdul Algazali in his office in Hamtramck PHOTOS: Bill Meyer Algazali came in 179 votes behind incumbent Karen Majewski in the August primary, but is...
Our endorsements for 2009
November 3rd, 20090 The municipal elections being held Tuesday, November 3, provide an unprecedented opportunity for Arab Americans, particularly in Dearborn. While the election is important because it decides who will be making the decisions that affect our everyday lives — running the city, running the schools, protecting and maintaining neighborhoods...Detroit mayor rounds up support for 2010 Census
Finding, let alone counting, all of Detroit's residents amid all the city's widespread clusters of vacant structures and foreclosed homes is a huge task. The Census Bureau, with its work cut out for it, is reaching out into the crevices of minority and ethnic communities all over and is looking for all the help it can get. Detroit...Tractors, Thunderbirds in playoffs
DEARBORN — It was business as usual for Dearborn Public School teams in 2009 as Edsel Ford, Dearborn, and Fordson all finished with winning records. The Pioneers fell just short of the playoffs after a tough 25-7 loss to Highland Park last weekend and a 5-4 season, but both the Thunderbirds and Tractors have playoff games at home...Cigar bar adds to nightlife in the D
From restaurants to casinos, downtown Detroit offers plenty of entertainment options. But for a long time, the city lacked an upscale cigar bar where some of the its 160,000 or so workers could relax at the end of the day. Hand-rolled cigars are made on-site at La Casa De La Habana, 1502 Randolph Street in downtown Detroit...Another war in the works
Does anyone remember all the lies they were told by President Bush and the "mainstream media" about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed.......
Egypt makes cultural clout count
CAIRO (IPS) — Egypt has long been recognized as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian literature, music, film and television. Iconic Egyptian...U.S., NATO rely on warlords for security
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The revelation by The New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency forces on Afghan warlords for......
J Street meet draws foreign policy heavyweights
WASHINGTON (IPS) — J Street, the relatively new "pro-Israel, pro-peace" advocacy group, exceeded expectations for its inaugural conference here in Washington with over 1,500 participants attending the four-day event. Turnout surpassed the organizers' 1,000 expected participants, despite a series of attacks accusing the group of...
AAPAC rallies voters: High turnout will bring surprises
October 30th, 20090 Arab American Political Action Committee activists stand with public officials during AAPAC’s annual dinner on Thursday at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn. PHOTOS: Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite Studios The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) rallied activists and voters on Thursday in preparation for...
FBI shootout leads to death of radical leader
October 30th, 20090 The FBI raided a Dearborn warehouse and two Detroit homes on Wednesday, killing one man and arresting several members of what officials call a radical Muslim group after the unsealing of a criminal complaint in which 11 suspects were charged with various felonies. Luqman Ameen Abdullah The suspects were members of a local...VIDEO: TV news commentator bashes Islamophobic lawmakers
MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow took aim on Monday at four Republican members of U.S. Congress who announced they would demand an investigation into the Council of American-Islamic Relations during an Oct. 14 press conference, as they promoted a book entitled "Muslim Mafia." They accused CAIR of attempting to infiltrate Congress – by......
U.N. body backs war crimes charges on Israel, Hamas
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) approved a resolution last week endorsing war crimes charges against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as spelled out in a report by a four-member international fact-finding mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. A Palestinian man walks past a...US-Israeli missile war games begin
The United States and Israel began this week more than two weeks of tests to simulate missile attacks on the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons. Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai (R) is briefed by an Israeli army officer during a tour of fortifications near the Israeli-Lebanese border, October......
Charity officials press for federal antiterrorism restrictions to be relaxed
After years of raising concerns that the federal government's antiterrorism rules constrain charities from performing humanitarian work overseas and dissuade Americans from giving, nonprofit officials are growing slightly more hopeful that some of those policies might be modified. A group of charity leaders has been gathering with...Celebrating 30 years of success
DETROIT — The Renaissance Center in Detroit was the site of the Arab and Chaldean Council's (ACC) Annual Civic and Humanitarian Awards Gala on Saturday, October 17, as the organization celebrated 30 years of service and accomplishments. ACC President and CEO Dr. Haifa Fakhouri extended her gratitude and appreciation to ACC......