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Community responds to Starbucks boycott
February 14th, 20090 DEARBORN — The debate over whether or not to boycott the Starbucks coffee company continues to be a hot topic among activists and Arab Americans in metro Detroit. A picketing of the west Dearborn Starbucks, 22155 Michigan Avenue, is expected to take place on Saturday, Feb. 21 from 4-8 p.m. Organizer Susan Hajhassan, 26, talked...
Dearborn news briefs
February 14th, 20090 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Firefighters Burn Drive is hosting a fundraiser for the care of an ailing six-year-old Dearborn girl, Meghan Salter, on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Avenue. Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, Jr. (right, front), City Council President Tom Tafelski...
New sushi bar in Dearborn
February 13th, 20090 DEARBORN — For years, Dearborn lacked a focused place for sushi lovers to get their fix. But now that the Kabuki sushi bar and restaurant is in town, the drive time for a taste of their favorite rolls and other sushi delicacies has been cut a significant amount. "Our owner, K.J. Lee, used to talk to people from Dearborn all the...
The horror of Gaza witnessed
February 7th, 20090 A Palestinian girl carries her sister in front of a destroyed house in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians are living in tented camps after Israel's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip, hoping for a swift end to Israel's blockade so they can rebuild their homes. Reuters Over the...
Fordson seniors head to college football
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — Wednesday was National Signing Day across the country as high school seniors signed letters-of-intent to the schools of their choice, and the Dearborn Fordson Tractors were well represented with three players receiving college scholarships. Fordson head football coach Fouad Zaban (back) watches his players (from...
Video: ADC gives scholarship awards
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — It was a special night at Greenfield Manor in Dearborn last Friday as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee held its 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Awards Reception. First place Martin Luther King scholarship award winner Laya Charara (center at podium) reads a portion of her prize-winning...Evidence of chemical weapons
GAZA CITY — When Nafiz Abu Shabam received a 5-year-old patient at the Shifa Hospital early in the war between Israel and Hamas, he dressed her burns and sent her for tests. Three hours later, when he and other medical staff redressed the wound, they saw smoke coming from it. Loay Soboh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, waves...Politically, Hamas may have won
CAIRO (IPS) — Despite declarations of victory by Israel, the military assault on the Gaza Strip failed to achieve its stated aims, many analysts say. The assault, and even its exceptional brutality, may only have vindicated the notion of resistance among the Arab public. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks during a rally in...Erdogan urges world to recognize Hamas
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections. In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in...
Generals seek to reverse Obama withdrawal decision
February 7th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21. A man walks past a U.S. soldier...Kucinich hosts Capitol Hill briefing on Gaza
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich convened a briefing on Capitol Hill. He invited two humanitarian workers to discuss the state of the Gaza Strip. Congressman Brian Baird of Washington state was in attendance and contributed comments. The packed room included many hill staffers, activists and humanitarian relief...
Landslide election wins for Maliki
February 7th, 20090 BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won landslide victories over Shi'a rivals in provincial elections at the weekend, reflecting a seismic shift in the political landscape, preliminary results issued on Thursday showed. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Results showed big wins for the prime minister's...State Senator Martha Scott: LOVE IS NOT ABUSE
Senator Scott: Dating violence is at epidemic proportions, resulting in thousands of preventable deaths. I hope you can do your part by becoming a MADE member and help me protect our youth. Join the MADE coalition by signing the petition at www.loveisnotabuse.com/made. The majority of this country sees Valentine's Day as an...
Obama may soon have to deal with Netanyahu
February 7th, 20090 Israel's Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu smiles during a conference in Tel Aviv Feb. 5, 2009. Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party continues to lead opinion polls ahead of a Feb. 10 parliamentary election with the ruling Kadima party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in second place. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen On Feb. 10, the...
Fordson students gather aid for Gaza
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — A group of high school students hope to make a difference for people in Gaza still suffering the effects of the three-week war last month, as they try to raise money and awareness locally. Fordson High School National Honor Society members Mohammad Ali Chokr (R), 17, Ali Nasrallah, 17, Hassan Hamid, 17, and an......
CAAO to file complaint against Judge Wygonik
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — Members of the Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO) on Wednesday decided in a meeting at the Lebanese American Heritage Club to file a grievance with the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission against 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik. 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik Several members pledged...
Video: Immigrants take citizenship oaths in Dearborn ceremony
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN — About 250 Detroit-area immigrants exchanged their Green Cards for naturalization certificates on Jan. 30 after officially becoming U.S. citizens when they took their oaths at Byblos Banquet Hall in a formal ceremony. Byblos owner Youssef Bazzi offered up his hall for the fourth time in three years to federal officials......
Imams meet, plan to support Gaza
February 7th, 20090 PHOTO: Khalil AlHajal/TAAN DEARBORN — Dozens of Muslim religious leaders from as far as Grand Blanc gathered at the Islamic Institute of Knowledge on Wednesday to discuss action on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in general. Osama Siblani, of the Arab American Political Action...Obama signs children’s health bill
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sees expansion of government health insurance to millions of lower-income children as a first step of several to come in providing coverage for all Americans. Ending a two-year effort by Democrats, Obama signed legislation Wednesday that will allow about 7 million children to continue coverage...Congress approves digital TV delay
Kendal Conerly, local DTV conversion campaign coordinator, shows how a converter box is installed during a January meeting of ethnic media outlets at the Detroit office of the NAACP. PHOTO: Cristina Fernandez-Pereda/New America Media WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. switch to digital television signals will be delayed four months...
Dearborn neighborhood parking rules suspended
February 7th, 20090 DEARBORN – The city has suspended Public Service Days parking rules until April 6 because heavy snowfall has made it difficult for residents to find alternative places to park, officials said in a release. Parking along city streets is normally prohibited on each Dearborn neighborhood's trash pickup day between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.......
Congressmen urge Gaza relief
January 30th, 20090 Palestinian boys eat lunch inside a makeshift shelter near their destroyed houses in Jabalya following Israel's 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip January 26, 2009. Some 1,300 Palestinians, including at least 700 civilians, were killed, Palestinian medical officials said, in the offensive Israel launched in the Hamas-ruled Gaza...Obama’s quick start raises hopes
U.S. President Barack Obama WASHINGTON — A series of unexpectedly swift moves to begin addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict taken by Barack Obama in the week since he was sworn in as the U.S. president is being hailed by many regional specialists here who were deeply frustrated by George W. Bush's relative indifference and......
Video: Kids from different worlds come together to fight hunger
January 30th, 20090 DEARBORN — Two groups of kids from opposite ends of Metro-Detroit and very different backgrounds came together on Tuesday to learn about volunteering, teamwork and each other. Students from Holbrook Elementary in Hamtramck and Winchester Elementary in Northville have been communicating for months as pen pals, and on Tuesday they got...
A guide to Saturday’s election in Iraq
January 30th, 20090 A doctor casts his vote in a hospital in Baghdad January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. REUTERS/Kahtan al-Mesiary On Saturday, Jan.......
