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Community backs Fordson Principal Fadlallah: Hundreds attend school board meeting
May 30th, 20080 DEARBORN Several hundred concerned students, parents, educators and community members gathered during the Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, May 28, in a show of solidarity and support for Fordson High School Principal Imad Fadlallah. Fadlallah, who had been facing an allegation of slapping a...College scouts wowed by Fordson star
DEARBORN When it comes to impressing college scouts in a quest for a scholarship, the off-season combines are maybe just as important as the actual football season, if not more. And now, after an impressive performance at the UnderArmour/scout.com Combine in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ali Alaboody of Dearborn Fordson could be on his way...
Family finds pleasure in giving back
May 30th, 20080 DEARBORN While most stores are only in business for one thing the bottom line Eastborn Market in Dearborn is a little bit different. The market, located on the corner of Wyoming and Warren, has enjoyed their growth from a 1,000 square-foot store in 1987 to their current 13,000 square-foot store and the profits that come with...Catholic bishop tackles Palestine cause
As a retired Roman Catholic Bishop, Thomas Gumbleton has traveled across the world to help people and to get a better grasp of the world's problems. But for years, there was one glaring omission on his list of trips. About 20 years ago, while holding mass at St. Anastasia Church in Troy, one of Gumbleton's parishioners had a...Group honors Arab American professionals
DEARBORN Community leaders gathered last week at Byblos Banquet Center to honor and award professionals in the Dearborn community . This was the third annual banquet hosted by the Arab American Professionals Network (AAPN). The event began with a welcoming address from James P. Allen, Chairman of the American Arab Chamber...ADC recognizes young volunteers
DEARBORN The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Michigan Kids Club celebrated outstanding student volunteers at its 2nd Annual "Young Volunteer Appreciation Day" on Friday, May 23, at McDonald Elementary School in Dearborn. This annual event recognizes students who are actively involved in their school's Service...Fairlane Ford committed to community
Local dealership to host FREE Child Safety Program on Saturday, June 7. Parents encouraged to bring their children. DEARBORN As a service to the community, Fairlane Ford at 14585 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn is offering a free DNA LifePrint Child Safety Event on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. The program will...Film documents refugee experience
A new documentary on the Palestinian refugee experience since 1948 is showing in Livonia next week. It is being celebrated as the first of its kind, a must-see for those interested in the Palestinian experience. The Arab American News had a chance to talk with Adam Shapiro, one of its creators. ...Palestinian youth express themselves through hip-hop
SAN FRANCISCO May 2008 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba Arabic for catastrophe, the expulsion of the Palestinian people and creation of the state of Israel. However, the Palestinian diaspora decided to commemorate it with a different image: sharing and performing hip-hop. A commemoration concert was recently held here...Kill ’em with comedy
Arab American comedian Meena Dimian DEARBORN β "That is a lot of peach fuzz mustaches," said New York comedian Meena Dimian when someone told him that 90 percent of Fordson High School students are Arab. Dimian performed at the school's auditorium on May 16 with three other Middle Eastern comics. He's part of a...When it comes to Israel, Europe is hypocritical, submissive and obsequious
RAMALLAH In comparison to the madman in the White House, Europe may look less bellicose, less confrontational and less unreasonable in its overall approach to contentious international issues. However, when the issue is the Palestinian plight, the U..S and Europe look very much like tweedledee and tweedledum. In...Coexistence, not apartheid
For the last 60 years, all those who have sought a genuinely peaceful and fair solution for Israel and Palestine have faced the same obstacle Israel's sense of invincibility and military arrogance, abetted by the U.S. and other Western governments' unwavering support. Despite recent setbacks on the military front, the Israeli...Palestine: 60 Years of resilience
DEARBORN On May 24, more than 500 people attended "Palestine: 60 Years of Resilience" to commemorate 60 years of Nakba. Held at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, the event was sponsored by American Muslims of Palestine, Michigan Citizens for Palestinian Rights (Michigan), GlobalLink Group and Drs....Israeli prize winner gives to Bir Zeit
The American mathematician David Mumford, co-winner of the 2008 Israeli Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics, announced upon receiving the award that he will donate the money to Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah, and to Gisha, an Israeli organization that advocates for Palestinian freedom of movement. "I decided to donate my...McCain’s “agents of inconvenience”
WASHINGTON (IPS) As John McCain launched his presidential bid in 2007, he faced a considerable challenge to mobilize support among social conservatives within the Republican Party. While the Arizona senator voted correctly on moral issues of concern to the Christian Right, such as abortion and gay marriage, perhaps McCain did......
Obstacles to an Israeli-Syrian deal
One would need to be an incurable optimist to expect real progress from the indirect talks that Syria and Israel have begun in Ankara under Turkish mediation. The obstacles to peace between the two long-time adversaries are so formidable as to rule out any realistic possibility of a deal in the near or medium-term future....The fight for freedom at Fordson
When word got out last week that Fordson High School Principal Imad Fadlallah was accused of slapping a student, parents and students got angry. Fadlallah has raised the morale, the standards of behavior and the academic performance at Fordson over the past few years and no one believed he would have hit a student. Sure enough, it......
Saudi death sentence being appealed
Mohamed KohailTwenty-three-year-old Mohamed Kohail, a Canadian citizen, is appealing his death sentence for killing Munzer Haraki in a schoolyard brawl in Saudi Arabia in January last year. The appeal is due to be heard by June 7. Kohails parents have nine witnesses who say that during the melee a stone fence collapsed,...British PM warns of global oil “shock” as fuel price protests spread
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned this week that the world faced an era-defining oil "shock" that required urgent action, as European leaders argued how best to contain protests over soaring fuel prices. "It is now understood that a global shock on this scale requires global solutions," Brown wrote in The...Iraqis questioning U.S.-Iraq deals
WASHINGTON (IPS) Iraqi parliamentarians are increasingly concerned that they are being left out of talks between Iraqi and U.S. officials over a strategic deal to determine the future relationship between the two countries, at a time when the U.S. Congress failed to include a provision in a bill to fund the Iraq and Afghan wars...Bush’s Islamist enemies list
President George W. Bush was rightly condemned when he implied that Democrats want to "negotiate with terrorists" because they are driven by "the false comfort of appeasement," while Republicans are committed to fighting terrorism. But in his speech before Israel's Knesset, Bush made another dangerous statement that got far less......
Why Qatar is emerging as Middle East peacemaker
Doha This tiny Gulf state emerged this week at the forefront of regional diplomacy, successfully shepherding the negotiations between feuding Lebanese factions to end months of political turmoil and violence. With regional powers, such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, aligned behind rival players in Lebanon, Qatar is uniquely suited to...
Siniora to head Lebanon government
May 30th, 20080 The U.S.-backed March 14 bloc nominated Fouad Siniora as prime minister Tuesday, although members of the Hizbullah-led opposition signaled they were unhappy with Siniora becoming head of the new cabinet. President Michel Sleiman's office made the announcement on Wednesday, following the president's meeting with legislators and the......
Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’
May 30th, 20080 NEW YORK The George W. Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key U.S. senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition...Will the U.S. negotiate with Hizbullah?
Editor's note: This is the fifth and final installment of Franklin Lamb's series on Hizbullah, reprinted from counterpunch.org. What the Bush administration wants from Hizbullah A public announcement of, and adherence to, a Hizbullah policy that separates Islam from terrorism in the minds of the Western public, i.e. between......