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Tunisia strives for religious tolerance
TUNIS In Tunisia, synagogues and churches stand side by side with mosques. Jewish and Christian minorities freely practice their religious rituals. This tolerant climate is ensured by the constitution which provides for habeas corpus, guarantees freedom of conscience and protects freedom of religious practice. But this open...Israel told to tackle West Bank plight
JERUSALEM Israel is coming under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life in the West Bank which senior diplomats believe could eventually make or break negotiations between the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas....
Pollard is the Americans’ Vanunu
May 3rd, 20080 Like a particularly dirty cloud of smog, the Pollard case has been following us for decades, polluting everyone who comes in contact with it. Many of the young men and women who worked on behalf of Jonathan Pollard in the various political frameworks were not even born in his finest days, while the malicious people who handled him...Shirin Ebadi on Iran and the world
While Bush administration's actions and threats of "regime change" increase the repression by the Iranian state, and economic sanctions only hurt the people, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says there are ways the outside world can support reform in Iran. At least 400 dissidents, activists and intellectuals a...Christian divisions complicate politics
BEIRUT (IPS) The political crisis gripping Lebanon has chipped away at what has been viewed by most since the 2005 parliamentary elections as an unlikely alignment of two political heavyweights. The recent falling out between Michel Aoun, head of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Michel Murr, the Greek...Greek Orthodox patriarch looks to the future
JERUSALEM (AP) The Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land is trying to recover from a moral and financial crisis, its top clergyman, Patriarch Theofilos III, told The Associated Press in a rare interview. In recent years, the church has been shaken by secretive real estate deals with Israelis, by Palestinian laymen angry about...Detroit Riverfront’s the place to be
DETROIT The Detroit RiverFront Conservancy released details this week on several new initiatives that will be bringing new activity to the Detroit Riverfront in 2008. New to the riverfront this summer will be the RiverWalk Cafι, with locations at Rivard Plaza and Pavilion and Gabriel Richard Park Plaza and Pavilion. The...Nine ways to teach kids that money doesn’t grow on trees
If you're looking for a silver lining to the economic slowdown, Eric Tyson says it's the perfect impetus for your kids to learn smart personal finance habits. Indianapolis With inflation on the rise (gas prices, grocery bills, health insurance premiums, etc.) and many companies being more conservative, more...Flower power makes business bloom
DEARBORN With its newer location in a familiar spot, the old Shatila Bakery building, you'd think that customers would know exactly what to expect when walking into Flowers by Renee on Schaefer Road in Dearborn just south of Warren. But just about every time they walk past the Greek-inspired faηade and through the double doors,...The Visitor: Redeeming images of Arabs
Actor Haaz Sleiman, a Detroit native and co-star of "The Visitor," after a screening of the film in Bloomfield Hills on April 7. Photo: Khalil AlHajal A new semi-mainstream movie in theaters this weekend kills two giant birds with one stone, countering decades of negative imagery associated with Arabs in American...Judge clarifies issuance of ‘impeding traffic’ tickets
DEARBORN As the weather starts to warm up and more cars hit the road, the City of Dearborn wants to make sure that police officers and prosecutors know the rules in regards to traffic violations, and the citizens of the city should know as well. In the past few years, Dearborn has seen tickets for impeding traffic violations...Awarding academic excellence
DEARBORN Fordson High School senior Ali Hussein Saad has been trying to create his own business for the last four years. Principal Imad Fadlallah said he'd been driving him crazy with his gas company ideas. But Saad's ambitions have landed him a $40,000 opportunity to attend any college in the country. The McKelvey...Young Iraqis look to help homeland
A boy leans his face against a wall as a policeman stands guard during a search operation in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, March 25, 2008. REUTERS/Mushtaq MuhammedDEARBORN β Four local women, all college students in their twenties, have started a new charity aimed at providing medical care to children in Iraq, and...Allen named to head chamber of commerce
DEARBORN The American Arab Chamber of Commerce has announced that attorney James Allen is their new chairman of the board. Allen previously served on the Executive Committee as second vice chairman and as a long time active member of the Arab American community. In 2000, he formed Allen Brothers, Attorneys and...Comcast to show they care at YABA
DEARBORN Employees of cable company Comcast are set to get their hands dirty on Saturday, May 3 when they volunteer for some painting and clean-up efforts at the Yemen American Benevolent Association (YABA) center, 2121 Salina Street in Dearborn. Hundreds of community centers across the country will also get help from about......
Muslim health clinics work to close gap in medical care for uninsured, underinsured
At three clinics, Muslims constitute less than five percent of the patients Just as Catholic and Jewish communities founded hospitals in the middle of the last century where their faith communities as well as the general population could receive quality healthcare, Muslim community based health organizations (MCBHOs)...There’s no way Clinton can catch up
Senator Hillary Clinton, on the brink of elimination from the Democratic presidential race, revived her campaign this week with a crucial primary win in Pennsylvania. Despite his popular vote loss in Pennsylvania, Obama picked up at least 69 delegates to Clinton's 81, allowing him to hold on to a more than 100-delegate lead in the......
Diamonds in Dubai and Israeli settlements
Dubai is known as both a wonderland of exuberance and a stopping point for tourists, travelers and international businessmen. Unimpressed by its display of wealth and luxury, activists are rallying against Dubai's decision to allow an Israeli businessman and active builder of Israeli settlements to set up shop there. He...Michigan International Women’s Show opens May 1
NOVI β The 13th annual Michigan International Women's Show rounds up some popular women's favorites at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi Thursday, May 1 through Sunday, May 4. "You and your girlfriends, sisters and moms can enjoy shopping, makeovers, cooking demonstrations, entertainment and much more all in one place,"...MIT of Middle East should include Saudi people’s welfare
American universities in need of funding may find an unlikely ally in the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia prepares to launch an international, graduate level research university. Already, Berkeley and Stanford have signed millon dollar contracts with the university. The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), set...America’s Palestine-Israel fairytale
A memorable quote in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance. He writes, "They own the land, just the mere land, and that's all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven't any business to be there defiling it. It's a shame and we ought not to......
Will the Middle East go up in flames this summer?
These are dangerously unsettled times in the Middle East. There are so many bitter scores to settle, so much violent dissension, such implacable hatreds, that it would take only a spark to set the whole region alight. Or so it would seem. Many observers predict a hot and bloody summer. What they have in mind is not only a continuation...The ten commandments of Iraq
The Iraq war is over. The failure of Bush's surge to produce political reconciliation in Iraq, combined with the unsustainable stress on our military and Congress' unwillingness to keep writing checks for $12 billion a month, all point in one direction: withdrawal. Even if John McCain is somehow elected president and for that to......
The choice of non-violence: Our strategy for Palestine
Sixty years after the Naqba, the catastrophe, Palestinians are still without a state. They are living under occupation, many are in refugee camps, others are scattered around the world, and a part of the Palestinian people are no more than second class citizens in Israel itself. The Palestinian struggle to achieve...
Dr. Michael DeBakey receives Congressional Medal of Honor
April 25th, 20080 WASHINGTON Houston heart surgeon and Arab American Dr. Michael DeBakey, a pioneer of life-saving bypass surgery, received the nation's highest civilian honor this week. Dr. DeBakey, 99, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for a lifetime of achievement in medicine, including his cardiac surgery advances, helping create the......