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Sharia investments paying off
This year, conventional banks and other financial institutions are bad news for investors because of the sub-prime debacle. By contrast, sharia-compliant instruments have been soaring. Funds operated by Amana, Azzad Asset Management, and Dow Jones Islamic Fund have all done very well indeed. Amana Income Fund, for...UAE cleanup
Remember the days before the push to recycle? Everything went to the dump. Well, when Canadian Samer Kamal went to visit his mother in Sarjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, he felt he was back in time to those days. He was struck by the amount of waste just going to. . . well, waste. Kamal heads up Tactical...School Board selects officers for 2008
DEARBORN The Dearborn Board of Education began the new year with a brief organizational meeting prior to the start of their January 14 regular Board meeting. The Board selected new officers to serve for the 2008 year. Veteran Board member Sharon Dulmage was selected to be president as Pam Adams steps down and resumes her role as a...Canada fast-tracks family reunification for Iraqis
Last month Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced a program to expedite admission of Iraqis with family members in Canada. The paper work for those wishing to come to Canada will be handled by the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration office in Damascus. Many refugees fleeing Iraq have managed to make...Openings available in Model Arab League program
WASHINGTON The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations has announced it Model Arab League program for 2008. Model Arab League is an educational activity similar to Model United Nations, but more limited and targeted in its focus and scope. It deals solely with the 22 Arab countries, not the 192 member-countries in the United Nations....Awakened to a new danger in Iraq
Credited with reducing violence, forces have actually sown new conflict BAGHDAD (IPS) The newly formed "Awakening" forces set up by the U.S. military are bringing new conflict among people here. For months now the U.S. military has been actively building what it calls "Awakening" forces and "Concerned Local Citizens" in an effort to...
Gaza strike hardens Hamas position
January 19th, 20080 In an interview, key Hamas strategist Mahmoud Zahar discusses how his movement has been preparing for a potentially imminent Israeli assault on Gaza. Gaza City Mahmoud Zahar, the Hamas leader widely seen as the strategic mind behind the Islamist movement's successful takeover of the Gaza Strip last summer, struck a defiant tone when...The planting of the Hormuz tale
WASHINGTON (IPS) Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the Jan. 6 U.S.-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident...Attack on U.S. vehicle in Beirut kills 4
As Bush tours Mideast, was this a message? BEIRUT An explosion targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle Tuesday in northern Beirut, killing four Lebanese and injuring a local embassy employee, American and Lebanese officials said. In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said two embassy employees including...New York activists take on Israeli settlement builder
A network of pro-Palestinian organizations in New York is working hard to expose Israeli businessman Lev Leviev's sponsorship of Israeli settlement construction. The groups have engaged in creative protests and organized boycotts and pressured those linked with Leviev. Their boycott campaign is gaining strong momentum. Leviev...Dearborn High graduate stars in drama at local theater
DEARBORN It's not often that a young actor receives the opportunity to work with theater professionals, yet 18-year-old Sean O'Reilly is now appearing in a drama being produced at Meadowbrook Theater. The Dearborn High School graduate is starring in "Rabbit Hole," David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize winning play, which is coming...Nationalists stirring in Iraq
Country may have a chance if U.S. gets out of way On January 13, an emerging Sunni-Shi'a nationalist bloc in Iraq signed a groundbreaking agreement aimed at ending Iraq's civil war, blocking the privatization of Iraq's oil industry and checkmating the breakaway Kurdish state. It's a big step forward, and it could change the...What’s wrong with the Arab World?
The quick deterioration of political, social, and economic order in most countries in the Arab world reflects a range of underlying tensions, problems and failures that have manifested themselves for almost a century, and most of them are self-made Arab failures. Every regime of the Arab world has proved a failure. Not one has been able...How to win the GWOT
BEIRUT I do not spend much time mingling with officers in the United States armed forces, but when I do, usually at a conference or international gathering, or reading texts on the web, I always come away from the experience more heartened than threatened. Presumably, so does President George W. Bush, who spends much of his time...CAIR-MI to hold annual dinner
DEARBORN The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Michigan (CAIR-MI) will host its Annual Banquet at the Islamic Center of America, 19500 Ford Rd. in Dearborn. Tickets are $50 for individuals and $25 for students. Keynote speaker will be Sister Zarqa Nawaz, creator and producer of CBC TV's #1 comedy sitcom "Little Mosque on The......
Dearborn Arab International Festival
Dearborn The 13th Annual Dearborn Arab International Festival will take place on June 20, 21, 22, 2008. This 3-day event is a free, family-centered cultural celebration that will attract over 300,000 people from Michigan, the Midwest, and Canada. This celebration of cultures will feature ethnic performances representing the diverse...ACC receives grant for Teen Health Project
Detroit The Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency has awarded the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) a $75,000 grant for its Teen Health Project. The Project's goal is to help children and adolescents reach their optimum potential and grow into healthy and responsible adolescents and young adults The program......
Community to meet with Detroit police chief
DEARBORN On Friday, Jan 30, at 6:00 p.m., the Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO) of Michigan will be holding a community meeting with Detroit Police Department Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, at Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn (7258 Chase Road). The gathering will be an open discussion that will address issues of concern...Late prime minister remembered
DEARBORN On Friday, February 8, The Future Movement in the United States will hold the third annual memorial honoring the life and vision of the late prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri at 7:30 p.m. at The Fairlane Club, 5000 Fairlane Woods Dr. in Dearborn. For information, call Mrs. Nadera Nassif at 313.581-3333 or...Scholarship foundation announces 2008 program
DEARBORN The Arab American Scholarship Foundation of the Lebanese American Heritage Club (AASF-LAHC) is proud to announce the official opening of the 2008 AASF program. A 501 c (3) organization, the AASF-LAHC provides over 60 scholarships annually to deserving Arab American students of high academic distinction. In order to...Community passes on primary election
While about 24 percent of total registered Dearborn voters and about 20 percent in the state cast ballots, turnout was much lower among Arab Americans. Dearborn β Despite the historical significance of the wide open 2008 presidential election, which includes a woman, a black man, a Mormon, a preacher, a war hero, an actor, a......
What would Democratic foreign policy look like?
January 19th, 20080 Clinton, Obama and Edwards all reject the Bush/Cheney administration's disastrous foreign policies. But what will they do differently? At the Des Moines Register presidential debate in December, Barack Obama was asked how voters could expect him to provide a "break from the past" when many of his top foreign policy advisers were...Official version of naval incident starts to unravel
Washington (IPS) Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea," new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S.......
Vote this week in Michigan’s Primary
Vote this week in Michigan's Primary Kucinich for Democrats, Paul for Republicans There's a lot of confusion about Michigan's primary election to be held this week on Tuesday, January 15, instead of the usual early February race. It's pretty much agreed that moving the state primary forward was a mistake. The Democratic National...Toward a different intifada
The key concern for Palestinians is putting an end to the occupation. If we look at the current situation, Israel is holding lots of the cards. It has, to use their expression, "facts on the ground" in the form of settlementslegal and "illegal," according to Israeli criteria, but the latter are also often supported and......