City’s high schools promise exciting football season in new division
DEARBORN - It's a season of new beginnings for the Dearborn, Dearborn Edsel Ford, and Dearborn Fordson programs as the three high school football teams each move into the newly-created Western Wayne County Blue Division. And if it turns out anything like last season, there will be plenty of happy football fans in the area as all...A shake-up among teachers, administrators in Dearborn Schools
DEARBORN - In mid-August, no matter how hard they try to fight it, the thought of going back to school starts creeping into the backs of kids' minds. In Dearborn, many of them will see some new faces when they go back in September. A major shift in principals and administrators throughout the district has taken place this summer in a...City council seat open in Dearborn Heights
DEARBORN HEIGHTS - City officials are looking to appoint a new City Council member to replace Bob Brown, who resigned on July 14. Resumes and letters of interest are being accepted at City Hall through Aug. 26. Candidates will have a chance to introduce themselves at a Sept. 1 meeting and on Sept. 8 the council is expected to...New language education initiatives
Two new federally funded initiatives are offering college students unique opportunities to learn or make use of Arabic language skills through the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Georgetown University in Washington. The National Security Education Program has provided a Language Flagship Initiative grant at U-M to "change the...
Flint teen linked to missing Macomb County man
August 15th, 20090 DETROIT - A 17-year-old Flint teen of Lebanese descent has been linked to the disappearance of a Chesterfield Township man, and a series of other crimes in Macomb County, according to reports Thursday by The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Ihab Maslamani Ihab Maslamani was arraigned Thursday afternoon in Clinton...Post office may close area facilities
Fifteen Detroit-area U.S. Postal Service locations may have to close. Officials have said the Postal Service has lost $4.7 billion so far this year and expects the number to grow to $7 billion by the end of the fiscal year, because of the recession and increased use of electronic billing and messaging. The agency has proposed...
U.S. stands to lose if peace process stalls
August 15th, 20090 Barack Obama is in a bit of a bind. Unlike any of his predecessors, this American president chose, admirably, to attempt to tackle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict shortly after taking office, realizing that this long-festering issue has seriously damaged the US image in the Middle East. A Palestinian boy climbs up from a...coney captions
Top to bottom: Favorite halal food items like coney dogs will be available 24-7 throughout Ramadan at Leo's Coney Island in Dearborn. Georgena Baydoun (left) and her daughter Owatif of Dearborn Heights enjoy a meal at Leo's Coney Island in Dearborn. Server Ahmad Farhat offers up a Greek salad at the new Leo's Coney Island in...New halal coney island to open 24 hours for Ramadan
DEARBORN - It's easy to find plenty of quality halal food choices in Dearborn, but up until now, one of Detroit's favorite culinary creations was hard to come by. Leo's Coney Island in Dearborn on the corner of Ford and Greenfield has changed all of that by offering authentic coney island-style food favorites, all with certified halal...The ongoing danger of nuclear war
This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized the Cold War is now far behind us, isn't it? A girl prays in front of a cenotaph for the victims of the the U.S....Will Obama be pressured to slow down peace promotion by Israel’s supporters in the Congress?
President Barack Obama is investing a good measure of his political capital in the Middle East without receiving, so far, much support from the United States Congress. Last week, the president's special Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, was in Israel to work toward reaching a better understanding over limiting Israeli settlements. U.S....
Dearborn City Council race: Five Arab Americans move on to compete in November
August 7th, 20090 DEARBORN – Five candidates with Arab ethnic roots will appear on the City Council election ballot in November after placing among the top 14 vote-getters in Tuesday's primary. Dearborn voter Kefah Saad, 43, inserts his ballot into a vote-counting machine at Woodworth Middle School on Tuesday as his son Hady Saad, 7, watches....
Arab Americans make November ballots in Detroit, Hamtramck
August 7th, 20090 DETROIT — City council candidate Mohamed Okdie, who is Arab American, placed 16th out of 169 in Detroit's primary election Tuesday, garnering 9,374 votes and winning a spot on the November ballot. Detroit city council candidate Mohamed Okdie received 9,374 votes in Tuesday's primary election, placing him 16th and winning him a...Man hit by falling airplane part
DEARBORN — A Dearborn man was hit by a 7x8 inch piece of jagged metal from an aircraft Monday while standing outside of his home. Forty-year-old Wissam Beydoun was walking up the steps when the aluminum object fell from the sky and hit him on the head. At first, he thought it might have been a bird, but he eventually realized...Soccer reunites friends from Yemen
Soccer is the most popular sport on Earth in large part because of its breathtaking individual displays of skill. But when it comes to winning championships, Unis AlHidary knows that nothing beats teamwork. Unis AlHidary AlHidary and fellow Michigan Yemen Sports Association player Ismail Nasser would know, as they both won......
DEARBORN ELECTION RESULTS: Five Arab Americans move on to November election
August 5th, 20090 DEARBORN – The field of 25 City Council candidates was cut to 14 after Tuesday primary elections. The 14 survivors will move on to the November general election, where they'll fight for seven seats. Five Arab Americans, including three incumbents and two newcomers, made the cut. Incumbents George Darany, Suzanne Sareini and...The old Bibi is back
JERUSALEM — "Reckless", "cavalier", "unscrupulous", "petty politician, not statesman"…these and such epithets applied to Benjamin Netanyahu by friends and foes alike — not that he ended up with many friends — when he was first Israel's Prime Minister back in the late 1990s. Benjamin Netanyahu Re-elected in......
When did making a profit become the only reason to do anything?
It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Not anymore. How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from...House approves bill to pump $2 billion more into ‘Cash for Clunkers’
The U.S. House on Friday voted to rush an additional $2 billion into the popular "cash for clunkers" car purchase program. The government was forced to suspend the program Thursday due a quick draining of funds. Nearly $1 billion set aside for the program, initially expected to last until November, had been used up after only four...
Crowded field in Detroit City Council race
July 31st, 20090 An Arab American couple walks along the Detroit riverfront. PHOTO: Khalil AlHajal/TAAN DETROIT — A field of 168 candidates running to serve on the nine-member Detroit City Council will be cut to 18 after August 4 primary elections. Voters will make their final choices in the Nov. 3 general election. In a city...Dearborn primary could come down to a few votes
DEARBORN — When it comes to city council elections, many analysts and politicians agree: they have a bigger impact on peoples' lives than the presidential election. But despite that viewpoint, voter turnout for city council primary elections in Dearborn is usually low, especially compared to presidential races, and it's expected to......
Tips to catch a homebuyer’s eye
The housing market's financial slip is making it hard to get homes off the selling block. To help speed up the selling process, homeowners and agents may want to consider hiring a stager. Stagers are hired to rearrange a home's contents and furniture to better catch the eyes of buyers. Realtors and sellers who have used staging...
Former wrestling coach sues Dearborn Schools, Fordson principal
July 31st, 20090 A longtime Fordson High School wrestling coach whose contract was not renewed last year filed a federal lawsuit against Dearborn Public Schools and Fordson Principal Imad Fadlallah on Monday, claiming he was terminated because of his Christian religious beliefs. The suit was filed in Detroit by a Livonia law firm and the Ann......
Passion for life, not for boxing
"Hey it is you! You photographed my wedding," yelled Tarick Salmaci from inside his white Caddy, where I was meeting him at Starbucks in West Dearborn. Tarick Salmaci "Can you believe it has been twelve years since I got married?" he added as he walked toward me. He stopped and chatted with a friend passing in his car,...Netanyahu plays “Deal or No Deal” with Israeli settlements
An Israeli settlement in the West Bank When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues unjustifiably for the need to continue the construction of West Bank settlements to allow for "natural growth" of settler families, he reminds me of the risk-driven guest player on the popular TV show "Deal or No Deal." In this show, the......
