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The Israeli project has failed in Lebanon
Note: This is the third installment in Franklin Lamb's extraordinary series. The fourth installment will appear in the next issue. Dahiyeh Despite the media hype these days, many Middle East analysts as well as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by former presidential candidate Joe Biden...Jewish activists arrested disrupting community celebrations for Israeli anniversary
Jewish activists draw attention to 60 years of forced exile and dispossession in Palestine San Francisco Twenty Jewish activists were arrested while demonstrating opposition to Israel's 60 year-old policy of dispossession and highlighting the often-silenced struggle of Palestinian refugees. For over...
Edwards endorses Barack Obama
May 16th, 20080 Hillary appears to be over, at least as president It was a weary and wistful Hillary Clinton who sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and other network anchors for extended interviews on the day after her West Virginia victory. She knew that no matter what she said and how well she said it, it would not be...
Bush hails Israel on 60th anniversary visit
May 16th, 20080 On his second trip to Israel, President Bush will address the issue of settlement building and try to push for progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. JERUSALEM President Bush landed here Wednesday to join the Jewish state in its 60th anniversary gala part of his drive to propel...
Transformation in Lebanon
May 16th, 20080 Events in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon continue to move erratically, with simultaneous gestures of political compromise and armed clashes that have left 46 dead in the past week. The consequences of what has happened in the past week may portend an extraordinary but constructive new development. If Lebanon shifts from...Annual Mother’s Day brunch honors Rehab Amer
DEARBORN The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Greater Detroit Chapter celebrated exemplary mothers in the Arab American community during its Second Annual Mother's Day Brunch on Sunday, May 4, 2008, at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center here. The event hosted approximately 200 guests from different age groups and...Business treats customers like family
DEARBORN When it comes to corner auto repair shops, most places only care about one thing: their bottom line. But the problem with that philosophy is that sooner or later, customers find out, and most of the time, they don't come back. Luckily, Dabaja Tire Center on the corner of Greenfield and Warren in Dearborn is different....The first song in the soundtrack of my life
My heavy eyelids slip slowly downwards. As they continue to droop I take one final, albeit increasingly blurry, look at the comforting image of my childhood bedroom. Upon my lush peach-colored armchairs, I catch sight of my many beloved dolls, the dolls that never fail to entertain my little-girl fancies throughout the day. They appear...The five percent solution to America’s crises
US presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney DEARBORN β Green Party U.S. presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is hoping to get support from five percent of voters in November, in an attempt to change the way the country's political system operates, she said Monday in an interview with The Arab American News. In an...V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!
The Dearborn Stars soccer team was victorious over the Ford Lightning in the newly-revived teams first game since the 2000 season. The Michigan Premier Soccer League's Stars, which are sponsored by the Lebanese American Heritage Club, won 5-0 on the strength of their balanced scoring. The five goals were scored by five...Women’s Foundation honors ACC leader
NOVI The Michigan Women's Foundation (MWF) hosted its 19th Annual Women of Achievement and Courage Celebrations by honoring five dynamic women who have made significant contributions to arts, advocacy and activism. As the first and most experienced statewide organization that supports and invests in women and girls, MWF will use...ACLU supports doctor fired from clinic
ANN ARBOR The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has issued an opinion critical of Packard Community Clinic's policy regarding speech of employees. In a letter to Executive Director Kim Kratz, the ACLU states: " the policy is extremely broad and poses serious civil liberties implications for the free expression...Deeb to be awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor
WARREN Edward Deeb, native Detroiter and president and CEO of the Michigan Food and Beverage Association, and the Michigan Business and Professional Association, headquartered in Warren, MI, will be awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, at ceremonies on Ellis Island in New York City May 10. The two large associations he heads have...From Ugarit to the world
Perhaps it was inevitable that Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali would one day find himself in Ugarit, Syria, creating new music for the world out of the world's oldest. Ugarit is a Bronze Age city the ruins of which lie in a large artificial mound called Ras Shamra, six miles north of Latakia on the Mediterranean...Comcast Cares Day
Comcast volunteers, family and friends painted and cleaned up the Yemen American Benevolent Association facility in Dearborn on Saturday, May 3, as part of Comcast Cares Day, the companys nationwide day of service. More than 30 non-profit organizations throughout the state of Michigan benefited from the efforts of thousands of......
Harold and Kumar offers cheap laughs, light politics, and little else
Just as the movie "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" hit theaters across the country, the reviled American prison camps were in the headlines once again. An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained by the American government in Guantanamo Bay for 7 years was released. The movie, a slapstick comedy, drew large...The man behind the Mahdi Army
An excellent work, "Muqtada" ends off right where current events pick up with the recent Iraqi army attacks ordered by Nuri al-Maliki in southern Iraq, Basra in particular. The media view that this was purely an Iraqi effort is put into place with one of author Patrick Cockburn's closing comments that Maliki "had limited real......
Man charged with deed fraud
DEARBORN A Grosse Pointe Woods man accused of swindling an elderly couple faces up to 38 years in prison after being charged on April 30. A preliminary hearing was to be held Friday. John Matouk, 41, was charged with forgery, uttering and publishing and false pretenses. According to a release from the Wayne County Prosecutor...What, if anything, is Arab American poetry?
To what extent is "Arab American" a title that can be defined concisely rather than atmospherically? Does it carry any weight if it is externally and involuntarily imposed, rather than adopted willingly? Is it something to be championed and celebrated, or is it to be buried, obscured, and avoided? The 39 poets, whose work is...Anniversary should be turning point
As Israelis finalize preparations for their momentous 60th anniversary a date marking 10 years of consistent economic growth and industrious expansion there remains the underlying question that will go unanswered yet another decade: What will be done with the West Bank and the Golan Heights? Despite all of its considerable...When will Israel learn?
In present form, it looks as if Israel might need another six decades to grasp that Middle East security is indivisible in other words, that its own security cannot be won at the cost of the insecurity of its neighbors. For all its achievements over the past six decades, Israel has failed one crucial test:......
Israel is suppressing a secret it must face
How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians? By Johann Hari When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. In a few...Israel at 60: Why we’re not celebrating
Between December 1947 and December 1950, over 530 Palestinian villages and towns were destroyed. Half of the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by underground Zionist forces even before Israel was unilaterally declared a state. Palestinians call these events of the late 1940s the Nakba (catastrophe). The......
Democrats okay funds for covert ops
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, is "unprecedented in its scope." Bush's secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area from Lebanon to Afghanistan but is also far more sweeping in...Finklestein: Middle East powder keg ready to blow
According to Norman Finklestein, not only Israel and the Arab world but all of us may be on the edge of the pit. Speaking at the University of Ottawa on May 2 at a meeting sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, he said that Hizbullah could undertake an attack on Israel at a time that it decided on.......