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Police raids places in Dearborn and Detroit for stolen goods, five arrested
August 1st, 20180 DEARBORN - The Dearborn Police Department and Canton Police, with support from Michigan State Police, have raided various locations in Dearborn and Detroit. The search warrants were issued for storage units, a warehouse and residential locations following a four-month investigation of an alleged criminal enterprise. As of now, five...
Saudi Arabia arrests two women’s rights activists
August 1st, 20180 Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, the latest to be swept up in a government crackdown on activists, clerics and journalists, an international rights group said on Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said authorities arrested Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah in the past two days. More than a dozen...
Head of Revolutionary Guards says Iranian president will never meet Trump
July 31st, 20180 TEHRAN - The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday dismissed President Trump’s tentative offer of talks with Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic was not North Korea. Trump said on Monday he would be willing to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out...
Trump says he is willing to talk to Iran’s leader without preconditions
July 30th, 20181 WASHINGTON - President Trump said on Monday he would be willing to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying, “If they want to meet, we’ll meet. “I’d meet with anybody. I believe in meetings,” especially in cases...
Ahed Tamimi freed from Israeli prison pledge to continue resistance
July 30th, 20180 WEST BANK - Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager released by Israel on Sunday after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier said she wanted to become a lawyer so she could continue her struggle against the occupation of her country. Tamimi, 17, became a hero to Palestinians after the incident last December...
In court filings, government says most separated families reunited
July 30th, 20180 U.S. BORDER — Around 1,400 children of some 2,500 separated families at the U.S.-Mexican border have been reunited with them, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday, July 26. Government lawyers said 711 other children were not yet eligible for reunification with their parents in time for Thursday’s deadline, which...
Report: FBI vastly undercounts hate crimes targeting Arab Americans
July 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — There were nearly twice as many hate crimes against Arab Americans in 2015 and 2016 than were reported by the FBI, underscoring the shortcomings of official statistics at a time of rising hate crime in the country, according to a comprehensive report on hate crime by the Arab American Institute in Washington. Using...
Syrian Druze bury dead as anger over ISIS attacks grows
July 29th, 20180 On Thursday, the Syrian city of Sweida buried dozens of its Druze inhabitants who were killed the day before in coordinated massacres carried out by ISIS terrorists. Residents and witnesses said they overran villages and staged multiple suicide attacks inside the city. They said the attacks that killed more than 200 people— the...
Civil rights leaders, Census policy experts urge public comments on citizenship question
July 29th, 20182 Civil rights leaders joined Census policy experts on July 17 in an urgent plea, particularly to communities of color, for a show of public activism and force to derail a fast-moving Trump administration effort to officially ignore them. The fight begins by taking full advantage of a narrow window of opportunity in which to speak out...
Soleimani warns Trump: ‘If you begin the war, we will end it’
July 29th, 20181 Major-General Qassem Soleimani, a powerful commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, said on Thursday, July 26, that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the U.S. president as using the language of “night clubs and gambling halls.” The comments by Soleimani, who heads the Quds...
New York Arabic Orchestra hosts summer workshops
July 29th, 20180 NEW YORK — The New York Arabic Orchestra (NYAO) hosts its annual Summer Workshops through the end of August. The NYAO invites musicians, students and vocalists to learn about Arabic music and improve their skills by participating in its various summer workshops for its ensembles sections I and II, Arabic vocal chorus, and Arabic...
State Department warned ending TPS for immigrants harmful
July 29th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to documents released on Wednesday, July 25, the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protection for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua could worsen efforts to combat drug trade and gang violence, the U.S. State Department warned last October. The senior Democrat on the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses El-Sayed for governor
July 28th, 20180 Lansing — On Wed., July 25, just two weeks before the Democratic primary, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for governor of Michigan. Sanders defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Michigan Democratic Primary by 2 percentage points, a surprise win over Clinton, who went on to secure...
ACCESS to host birthday party for Medicaid
July 28th, 20180 DEARBORN — The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) will celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Medicaid on Monday, July 30, with a birthday cake and a roundtable discussion with members of the ACCESS team, clients, coalition partners, local elected officials and other stakeholders. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell...
Arab American families donate to health initiative
July 28th, 20180 TOLEDO — On Thursday, July 19, a Lebanese American couple invested money in a ProMedica initiative which funds research and programs for education, housing, income and food insecurity. ProMedica Chief Philanthropy Officer Gary Cates announced the $1.5 million donation by Ramy and Faye Eidi during a news conference Thursday at......
Dearborn Man indicted with providing support to ISIS after being captured in Syria
July 28th, 20180 DETROIT — On Tuesday, July 24, a Dearborn man was charged in an unsealed indictment with providing material support to ISIS after being captured on an ISIS battlefield. Ibraheem Musaibli, 28, was taken into custody by coalition-backed forces this month while attempting to escape the Middle Euphrates River Valley in northern Syria,...
FBI serves Detroit for more than 110 years
July 28th, 20180 DETROIT — The FBI celebrated 110 years of public service on Thursday, July 26, and reflected on its history and the changes it’s experienced in the digital age. Even before the FBI’s official founding, a special agent was assigned to conduct investigations in Detroit for the Department of Justice. By 1911 there was an official......
Dearborn, Dearborn Heights residents to choose school board trustees
July 27th, 20180 DEARBORN, DEARBORN HEIGHTS – In Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, voters will select trustees for the Dearborn, Crestwood and District Seven School Board in the Nov. 6 elections. Three seats are available on the Dearborn School Board— one two year term and two six year terms. Current Trustee Mary Lane was the only candidate to...
Our endorsements for the August 7 primary elections
July 27th, 20180 This election is a defining event for America This election, for many reasons, is perhaps the most important one in America’s modern history. First, our democracy is in grave danger. During the last presidential election and since Donald Trump took office, there have been a systematic attack on our democracy at all levels. The...Judge allows lawsuit against citizenship question on 2020 Census to continue
July 27th, 20181 WASHINGTON — On Thursday, July 26, U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York rejected the government’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had the authority to reintroduce...
Arab Americans share views on recreational marijuana legalization
July 27th, 20181 By Tamara Ajjour and Eman Jassem The Arab American News interns DEARBORN — On November 6, Michigan residents will be able to decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In the United States, nine states and Washington D.C. have already legalized recreational use of the drug. If the drug is legalized,......
Syria set to recover Golan frontier as surrender deal with rebels reached
July 22nd, 20180 BEIRUT/AMMAN — President Bashar al-Assad is set to recover control of the Syrian frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a major victory over rebels who have agreed to surrender terms, sources on both sides said on Thursday. Backed by Russian air power and unopposed by Assad’s foreign adversaries, government forces...
The massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya are lynched and held responsible
July 22nd, 20180 “In my four years as high commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have you no shame? We are not fools.” These were some of the remarks made by the outgoing United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, in his......
The Trump-Putin summit uncovers the depth of divisions in America
July 22nd, 20180 For nearly 80 years the U.S. and Russia (or the former Soviet Union) have held summits. In each case, it has been a forum for domestic political debate. The president’s supporters always say the summit took solid steps towards peace and understanding, even while the president remained forceful and unyielding. Meanwhile, the...
Get involved, be a true American citizen
July 22nd, 20181 Back in 1883, Teddy Roosevelt wrote an essay on what it takes to be a true American citizen. He did not mince words. “The people who say that they have not time to attend to politics are simply saying that they are unfit to live in a free community,” he wrote. “The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in......
