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Pact will end Iraqi dependence on U.S. military
November 22nd, 20080 WASHINGTON (IPS) — The text of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari Monday closes the door to a further U.S. military presence beyond 2011 even more tightly than the previous draft and locks in a swift end to Iraqi dependence on the U.S....Conservatives try to keep the lid on
The Conservative government is going to court to prevent the Military Police Complaints Commission from holding hearings on allegations that Canada ordered its soldiers to hand prisoners over to Afghan security, while aware of torture practiced by the Afghans. Government lawyers make the novel argument that the Commission can only...Balfour: Palestine donated to Zionism
It has been nine decades since the British government generously "donated" Palestine to the Zionist federation. The actual drafter of the famous Balfour Declaration was Lord Alfred Milner. The British cabinet met on October 31, 1917 and approved the declaration, which then was drafted by the foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour...James Zogby and the politics of perception
James Zogby isn't just an Arab American with an opinion. He is the president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a well known writer, and an esteemed leader within the Arab American community. Many non-Arab Americans highly regard his analysis and look to his articles as a resource to understand the Middle East. U.S. Rep. Rahm...
Tractors one win from state meet
November 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — They've been talking about it all year, and now, the moment is finally here. The Dearborn Fordson football team is just one win away from Ford Field and the Division I State Championship Game. The Dearborn Fordson Tractors (team on the left), shown here against Dearborn, will make it to a game even bigger than their...
Ayad named to help lead ALPACT
November 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — Prominent attorney and civil rights leader, Nabih Ayad, was elected by unanimous decision to serve as co-chair of Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust (ALPACT) at its monthly meeting last Friday. Nabih Ayad, ADC Advisory Board Chairman (R), and Shelli Weisberg, of the ACLU, during a monthly meeting...
Reward offered in search for killers
November 22nd, 20080 A reward of up to $6,000 has been announced by the group Crime Stoppers for information leading to arrests of men who beat to death 21 year-old Maher Almaweri outside a Southwest Detroit gas station in August. Maher Almaweri The group said callers do not have to identify themselves. On August 21, Almaweri, a U.S....
Paper featured on Arab station
November 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — The U.S. government-run AlHurra satellite television network visited The Arab American News office in Dearborn on Monday to film a segment for an upcoming show about Arab newspapers in America. Correspondent Naser Abudiab (left) of the U.S. government's AlHurra satellite television network interviews The...
Dearborn unveils mass transit plans
November 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — City officials here unveiled detailed plans Tuesday for a rail passenger intermodal station to be a part of the Ann Arbor to Detroit commuter rail line set to be completed by October 2010. Dearborn's proposed intermodal station would accommodate passengers on the Ann Arbor to Detroit commuter rail line planned for...
Duvall students show spirit of season
November 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN —Duvall Elementary School students showed their Thanksgiving spirit this season by collecting hundreds of gift-wrapped shoe boxes filled with goods over two months to give to students of a Detroit school in a very low-income area. Duvall Principal Radewin Awada (L) with students Madelyn Hass, 10, Jordan Lessnau, 10,...
Community celebrates Lebanese Independence Day
November 21st, 20080 DEARBORN — Lebanese Americans throughout the Detroit area are celebrating the 65th anniversary of Lebanon's independence. Consul General of Lebanon in Detroit Bashir Tawk displaying a citation from the state of Michigan signed by Sen. Irma Clark-Coleman recognizing Lebanese Independence Day. Lessening political tensions in the...
Local restaurant offers free Thanksgiving dinner
November 21st, 20080 Leon's employees and volunteers entertain the crowd during a free Thanksgiving dinner celebration at a Leon's restaurant in a past year. PHOTO: George NakadDEARBORN — On Wednesday, November 26th, the day before Thanksgiving, Leon's Restaurant on Michigan Avenue will host a free Thanksgiving dinner open to the public from 2-8 p.m.With...
P.F. Chang’s brings lettuce wraps, big horse to Dearborn
November 21st, 20080 DEARBORN — The big horse has come to Dearborn.Popular Chinese restaurant chain P.F. Chang's opened its first location in Dearborn on Monday, complete with two of its trademark 11-foot tall horse statues at its entrance. Not to mention the restaurant's famous lettuce wraps, wok-cooked traditional entrees and Great Wall of...
Watch The Arab American News’ 20th anniversary video feature from 2004
November 20th, 20080 This short documentary, produced by Nael AbuNab, was shown at The Arab American News 20th anniversary banquet in 2004. The paper is now in it's 25th year of publication. The video features highlights from appearances by Publisher Osama Siblani's countless national and international television news programs over the years. PART...
Emanuel apologizes for father’s anti-Arab comments
November 15th, 20080 Obama's newly appointed Chief of Staff calls ADC to repudiate statements President-elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Just a week after he was announced as President-Elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, Congressman Rahm Emanuel was back in the media spotlight on Thursday, November 13th after he......
CBP searches imam’s laptop, data mysteriously wiped out
November 15th, 20080 Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, who wears the traditional headwear and robe of a Shi'a leader, lost all the information on his laptop after Customs and Border Protection personnel searched the computer at Metro Airport on Oct. 22. Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi He was returning from a...
Will Obama change US foreign policy?
November 15th, 20080 Obama foreign policy may not require clean break WASHINGTON (IPS) — While much of the world and many of his U.S. supporters are expecting a sharp break with his predecessor's foreign policy after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20, they may be surprised by the degree of continuity between the two......
Yasser Arafat: Don’t forget Palestine
This past week marked the fourth anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat. We reprint here a tribute to the Palestinian leader. The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after failed peace talks in 2000. For fifty years, Yasser Arafat — or Abu Ammar as he was more familiarly known — made the Palestinian cause his life's...
Fordson two games away from Ford Field
November 15th, 20080 With their victory over Detroit Cody last week, the Dearborn Fordson football team has done something that the program hasn’t done since 2003. They’ve made it to the third round of the playoffs. The Dearborn Fordson football team will have to play with as much intensity and focus as they did earlier in the year against...
A plea from Israel: Come, Obama, change my life
November 15th, 20080 Obama my dear, they tell me that you are going to change the world. Do me a favor, come and change my life personally. Come to Israel, grab its stupid leadership by the throat and take its foot off the neck of another people. Come and force us to do what is clear, and written, and fitting, and necessary, come and get us out of the...Closing for Jewish holidays ends at York U.
For 34 years, Toronto's York University shut down on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The University of Windsor Law School also closed for these Jewish holidays. This practice has come to a halt in both institutions. At York, Professor David Noble, himself a Jew, defied the closure and held class on Rosh Hashana. He also filed a complaint......
Judge Wygonik needs to issue a clear apology to the community
It has been four months since 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik came under fire for making disparaging comments about Arab Americans during a conversation with Dearborn Heights Councilman Tom Berry on July 10. There is no question about Berry's credibility. And the conversation was witnessed by another high-level...Letters to the Editor
Dear Mr. Siblani: I am proud that so many truly cared about a simple judicial election that the process provoked such passion in our community. It speaks volumes about Dearborn. But, we need to work together and celebrate our accomplishments, not our differences. And sometimes we have to agree to disagree Words cannot adequately......
Have we been conned again?
If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America's wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama's choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama's selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that...Rahm Emanuel is no reason for hope or celebration
Election night tens of millions of us wept for joy. We sang the songs that we had sung as young men and women when we were fighting segregation in the south and then in the north, some of us being beaten, others jailed, some even killed. For the first time in three decades we could sing "Imagine" and "The Times They are a'Changing"......
