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Judge Mariam Bazzi to receive Distinguished Service Award at HFC commencement
April 23rd, 20180 DEARBORN — Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Mariam Bazzi will receive the 2018 Henry Ford College Distinguished Service Award at HFC's afternoon commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 5. The ceremony will take place at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center at 1:30 p.m. Bazzi is a former member of the HFC Board of...
EnvisionTEC reveals world’s longest 3D printed chain
April 23rd, 20180 DETROIT — On April 20, Dearborn-based EnvisionTEC unveiled a 328-foot chain of groundbreaking new material in the world's longest chain printed from a 3D printer. The chain was printed over the course of 99 hours unattended and required a computer with extreme processing power. The chain took more than two weeks to design and...
People ask: Is strike against Syria justified?
April 23rd, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News "Assad either didn't carry out the chemical attack or he "is the dumbest dictator on the planet Earth." -Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) DEARBORN — The U.S. and its European allies carried out airstrikes on Friday, April 13, in retaliation for a suspected but unconfirmed chemical attack on April 7 in...
Lebanese consul general assures voters: Head to polls with no reservations
April 23rd, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN — In a town hall meeting at the Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn on Wednesday, April 18, Suzan Mouzi-Yassine, the Lebanese Consul General of Lebanon in Detroit, joined with other speakers in addressing Lebanese Americans on the process of voting in the upcoming Lebanese...
OPCW inspectors have samples from alleged Douma’s chemical attack site
April 22nd, 20180 DAMASCUS- A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in Douma, Syria on Saturday to collect samples as it tries to determine whether such weapons were used there on April 7, the agency said. In a statement, the OPCW said it would now evaluate and consider whether the team...
Trump’s Muslim travel ban faces U.S. Supreme Court showdown
April 22nd, 20180 WASHINGTON - The ultimate showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over President Trump’s immigration policies and in particular the “Muslim Travel Ban” is set for Wednesday when the justices hear a challenge to the lawfulness of Trump’s travel ban executive order targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. The case...
Push for ‘Dreamer’ immigration bill gains steam in House of Representatives
April 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives on Wednesday urged Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule debate on bills to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, in a move aimed at reviving a push that sputtered in the Senate in February. Backers said they had 240 House members on board so far...
Hundreds of refugees return to Syria from Lebanon
April 18th, 20180 SHEBAA, Lebanon — Several hundred Syrians who have lived for years as refugees in Lebanon left for their home country on Wednesday in a rare case of a mass return of those who left the country since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. Nearly 500 people, including children and the elderly, left the Shebaa area in southeast Lebanon in...
Starbucks to close 8,000 U.S. stores on 5/29 for racial-bias training
April 17th, 20180 Starbucks Corp will close 8,000 company-owned U.S. cafes for the afternoon on May 29 to train nearly 175,000 on how to prevent racial discrimination in its stores. Starbucks’ roughly 6,000 licensed cafes will remain open. Starbucks said it would make training materials available to the employees of those stores, who are employed by...
Senator Sanders introducing bill targeting opioid manufacturers
April 17th, 20180 WASHINGTON,D.C. — Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would fine opioid drug manufacturers for deceptive marketing and implement the harshest penalties yet on drugmakers found responsible for contributing to the drug epidemic. Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in...
Syrian air defenses shoot down missiles in Homs
April 16th, 20180 AMMAN - Syrian anti-aircraft defenses shot down missiles that hit the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late Monday night, Syrian state television said. State television showed pictures of a missile that was shot in the air above the air base only days after a U.S., British and French attack on Syrian targets in retaliation...
France announces 50 million euro humanitarian aid for Syria
April 16th, 20180 PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France will contribute 50 million euros ($61.9 million) toward urgent humanitarian aid for Syria following a meeting with a group of non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Paris. “This evening I brought together NGOs working on the ground in Syria. Faced with the...
Four Arab states stick by Qatar demands despite U.S. pressure to end rift
April 13th, 20180 CAIRO – Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA news agency said on Thursday, despite U.S. pressure for a swift end to the dispute. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates sent Doha a...
Progress in Iran deal talks, but Trump stance uncertain
April 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON/PARIS – European officials are making headway toward an agreement to address U.S. concerns about the Iran nuclear deal, a European diplomat said on Thursday, but a second diplomat said it was unclear if President Trump would embrace their work. Senior diplomats from the three European nations that are party to the deal...
Dearborn alleys scheduled for reconstruction
April 13th, 20180 DEARBORN — A number of alleys throughout the city are scheduled to be improved this year. Scheduled repairs include pavement at 650 locations and sidewalk repairs at approximately 200 locations. Construction will begin in the spring. Some alley locations are scheduled to be inspected. These alleys are east of Schaefer between......
Fashionably late: Saudi Arabia hosts its first-ever fashion week
April 13th, 20180 RIYADH – Fashionable women, dark-haired Saudis and blonde Eastern Europeans alike, fill the gold-trimmed halls of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, marking the start of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever fashion week. Models and makeup artists preparing for the inaugural Saudi episode of Arab Fashion Week said they were surprised the event...
Hamadeh Educational Services to host inaugural scholarship gala on 20th anniversary
April 13th, 20180 Advertorial DEARBORN HEIGHTS – They say it takes a village to raise a child, but effective avenues to accomplish that are few and far between. Hamadeh Educational Services (HES), will do just that by holding its inaugural Scholarship Gala on Friday, April 20 at the Edward Hotel in Dearborn. Proceeds from the event will......
House Speaker Ryan to quit, shaking Republicans as elections near
April 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election and will leave his post at the start of 2019, dealing a blow to fellow Republicans and President Trump ahead of fast-approaching Congressional elections. By triggering a House leadership struggle when the party should focus on defending its...
U.S. launches crackdown on sexual harassment in housing
April 13th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration is launching an initiative on Thursday to crack down on sexual harassment of women by landlords and encourage victims to come forward for help from the Justice Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two departments will create a task force to combat sexual...
English language learning in the Arab context: Practice makes perfect
April 13th, 20180 By Dr. Rais Attamimi There is a common perception that exists among most parents and students, as well as some teachers, that there is an automatic preference for a given learner who is studying a second language to be accorded the chance to visit, and live within, human communities that speak that language and live that culture. ...
Michigan State student sues, claims school ignored rape by basketball players
April 13th, 20180 DETROIT — A Michigan State University journalism student sued the school on Monday, claiming she was raped by three basketball players and that she was discouraged by counselors from reporting the 2015 attack to police. Identified as Jane Doe in the U.S. District Court lawsuit, the student, who was 18 at the time, claims MSU had a......
The push for war against Syria united politicians on both sides of the aisle
April 13th, 20180 The chemical attack video: We've seen this movie before Democrats and Republicans alike— on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Congress, in the liberal and conservative mainstream media, in our intelligence services and in basically every think tank in Washington— have suddenly aligned on a single point of agreement; America must...
Community hosts fundraiser for Michigan Supreme Court justices
April 13th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN — Several community members, including fellow judges, were present Tuesday at a fundraiser for Justices Kurtis T. Wilder and Elizabeth T. Clement, hosted by Published Osama Siblani at La Pita. Both justices are running for reelection this year. Last year, Gov. Snyder......
Flint free from state oversight
April 13th, 20180 FLINT — When Flint’s oversight moved to a receivership transition advisory board, Governor Snyder stated that city officials worked hard to reverse the financial emergency that led to state-appointed emergency managers from November 2011 to April 2015. Flint’s emergency manager changed the city’s water source in 2014 in an...
Israeli forces kill more Palestinians as Gaza border tension simmers
April 13th, 20180 GAZA – An Israeli air strike on Thursday killed a Hamas gunman and wounded another and troops later shot dead a man close to the border, Palestinian medical officials said, as tensions across the Gaza Strip border simmered. Israel said the air strike was launched in response to a bomb attack on a military vehicle on the Gaza border......
