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Dearborn swears in two new firefighters, no Arab Americans
August 5th, 20180 DEARBORN – The Dearborn Fire Department recently held swearing-in ceremonies for two firefighters at the Dearborn Administrative Center. Mayor Jack O’Reilly, Jr. was accompanied by Fire Chief Joseph Murray and the Deputy Fire Chief Joey Thorington in welcoming Firefighter William Querfeld to the department on May 24. On July...
Dearborn Historical Museum holds second annual Trunk Sale
August 4th, 20180 DEARBORN—Vendors from all over the area will be selling anything from antiques to modern trinkets right out of the trunks of their cars at the Dearborn Historical Museum’s second Trunk Sale on Saturday, Aug. 11 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the McFadden Ross House on Brady Street. The museum is holding 60 spaces for interested vendors...
Seventy U.S. lawmakers urge for immediate humanitarian aid for Gaza
August 4th, 20180 GAZA — Seventy members of the U.S. Congress are urging the Trump administration to immediately reinstate U.S. aid in order to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Israel has seized a boat and detained almost two dozen people as they were trying to reach Gaza by sea with a cargo of medical...
Arab and Chaldean Festival celebrates unity
August 4th, 20180 By Tamara Ajjour The Arab American News DETROIT — The 47th annual Arab and Chaldean Festival, which highlighted Middle Eastern culture through live dabke performances, a hookah stand, Arabic food, an art gallery and more, saw a significant increase in attendance from previous years, according to event organizer Jacob...
Russia to deploy military police on Golan Heights frontier
August 4th, 20180 MOSCOW — Russia will deploy its military police on the Golan Heights frontier between Syria and Israel, its defense ministry said on Thursday, after weeks of mounting volatility in the area. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s sweeping away of rebels in southwestern Syria has worried Israel, which believes it could allow his...
Israel’s false, Apartheid “democracy”
August 3rd, 20181 By Mohamed Mohamed Since its inception, Israel has been a discriminatory state, posing as a (false) democracy. This is not a matter of opinion; it is a fact and there is plenty of evidence to back it up. On Thursday, July 19, the Israeli Knesset passed the “Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” bill into...
Our endorsements for August 7 primary elections – Part 2
August 3rd, 20180 Last week The Arab American News editorial board issued endorsements for eight key races in the upcoming August 7 primary elections, including Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan gubernatorial primary; incumbent U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich); incumbent U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, (D-Dearborn) for U.S. representative in the 12th...
Here’s why some people get bitten by mosquitoes more than others
August 3rd, 20180 Do mosquitoes like you? It's nice to be liked, but with a few exceptions. Most people are more than happy to be unpopular with rodents and bugs. But, despite emitting stay-away-from-me vibes, some people get bitten by mosquitoes more often than others. As it turns out, your body could be giving off cues (without your knowledge) that...
SANA: Syrian air defenses destroy hostile target near Damascus
August 2nd, 20180 BEIRUT - Syrian state media said late on Thursday that air defenses had destroyed a “hostile target” west of the capital Damascus. “Our air defenses confronted a hostile target and destroyed it west of Damascus,” the state news agency SANA said, quoting a military source. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have...
Facebook says it identifies campaign to meddle in 2018 U.S. elections
August 2nd, 20180 Facebook said on Tuesday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of November’s U.S. congressional elections. It said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling in U.S....
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......
