Thousands gather in Dearborn to protest Israeli airstrikes
December 31st, 20080 Second demonstration scheduled for Friday, 5 p.m. in front of Dearborn City Hall. DEARBORN – Several thousand demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags, signs and banners along Warren Avenue in Dearborn on Tuesday, protesting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 370 people since Saturday, including at...
Gaza war is a repeat of the 2006 and 1982 wars
December 31st, 20080 Israeli tanks move just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in Gaza on Monday, the third day of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Hamas defied the strongest assault against Palestinian militants in decades by launching a rocket...
Arab Americans to protest Israeli assaults on Gaza
December 28th, 20080 DEARBORN - Arab American organizations called the community to action on Saturday in condemning and demanding and end to Israeli airsrikes on Gaza that began Saturday, killing more than 280 as of Sunday afternoon. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli Embassy in London December 28, 2008, against the Israeli...
Community leaders call for actions to stop the killings in Gaza
December 28th, 20080 Community leaders call for actions to stop the massacre against Palestinians in Gaza Bodies of Palestinian policemen lie on the ground of their destroyed police compound following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed at least 275 Palestinians, health...
Auto meltdown
December 26th, 20080 PHOTO: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook A 63-year-old Ford auto dealership has been bought out as pressures increase to thin the number of Detroit-area dealerships. A worker carries away a Ford logo sign from Al Long Ford auto dealership in Warren in the photo at left, taken Dec. 23. The image illustrates the intense uncertainty...Improving the United States’ image in the Middle East
Concern about the United States's image in the Middle East is not simply a frothy concern about being liked, because the United States's image is crucial to its soft power. When the United States is unpopular in the region, it is more difficult for governments there to cooperate with it and it becomes politically rewarding for leaders to...Shoe hurtling political, not cultural
Analysts tying event to cultural phenomenon, obscure motive A protester holds up a placard, in support of the Iraqi TV journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, in front of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran December 24, 2008. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl The symbolism of last week's shoe throwing incident is explosive, but unfortunately the...Economy, ties with West are key to Iran polls
TEHRAN (IPS) - The main issue in Iran's June 2009 presidential election is certain to be the country's economic woes, but both candidates will be linking the economy to the issue of relations between Iran and the West, according to Iranian politicians and political analysts. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran,...Overcoming the zero-sum hurdle
WASHINGTON (IPS) - It seems as if the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been dissected from every possible angle. An Israeli soldier gestures from a tank near Kibbutz Kissufim, just outside the central Gaza Strip December 22, 2008. Palestinian armed groups in Gaza observed a 24-hour halt to rocket fire against Israel at the...Thirteen U.S. deserters face deportation
Video frame grab of U.S. President George W. Bush (L) ducking from a shoe during a news conference in Baghdad December 14, 2008. An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President Bush a "dog" in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad. REUTERS/Reuters TV In this protest, one size fits all. On...
Wayne County Parks Lightfest 2008
December 26th, 20080 With more than 35 giant animated displays and over a million lights, the Wayne County Parks Lightfest is the Midwest’s longest light show. The complete route is over 4 miles along Hines Drive. There are walk-through displays, a Santa's Workshop and refreshments. Children can drop off letters to Santa at a giant mailbox. Open...
Sisters excel in academics, volleyball
December 26th, 20080 Coach credits mother as excellent role model for girls DEARBORN - Becoming a good volleyball player at the high school level is not easy. It takes discipline, commitment, and above all else, hours and hours of practice and hard work. The Bazzi sisters Sara (center) and Sahar (bottom) grew up playing volleyball together, giving...Registration open for award-winning photo academy
Thirty slots available at no charge DEARBORN- SURA Arts Academy, a free, diversity-themed digital photography instruction program for youth run by the Arab American National Museum (AANM), is accepting registrations for the Spring 2009 semester, which begins on January 20 and concludes on April 7. Thirty (30) slots are available at no...
Black-Arab collaboration focuses on commonalities
December 26th, 20080 Music blends cultures, histories Rap Artists Zhao-Ski and Big A Local hip hop artist Zhao-Ski describes Detroit as a symbol of resolute optimism in spite of all the disasters it's endured. It's a city, he said, that encompassed hope of a brighter future for African Americans who endured Jim Crow oppression in the south,...
Salon’s secret is making clients feel at home
December 26th, 20080 DEARBORN - It's been just a month since Milan's on Monroe Nail Salon opened on the west side of Dearborn, but already, word has spread quickly across the city and beyond. Milan's on Monroe employee Zena Jawad (left) gives a manicure to fellow employee Fadia Shuayto (right) at Milan's on Monroe Nail Salon. PHOTOS: Nick......
ADC fights to keep doors open amid economic downturn
December 20th, 20080 DEARBORN — The local regional office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) continues to struggle with severe financial trouble and faces the possibility of cutting staff or even closing its doors, despite a sell-out crowd at its annual gala, held Dec. 12. Attorney David Cole (L) receives a "Guardian of Civil...Will Obama end pay-to-play in Mideast policy?
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich The incoming Obama administration is scrambling to distance itself from the scandal emanating from the president-elect's home state. It is still too early to tell how much Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell the president-elect's Senate seat in exchange for $1 million may taint......
Interrogator appears on CBC
Damien Corsetti, a former U.S. military intelligence investigator who acted as an interrogator at Bagram in Afghanistan and at Abu Graib in Iraq, was interviewed recently on CBC. His interrogation methods were brutal and obscene, as revealed both in the interview and in other reports about his conduct. He screamed at prisoners. He pushed...
The pragmatism of ethnic cleansing
December 20th, 20080 Palestinians enter the United Nations headquarters in Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip December 18, 2008. A United Nations aid agency said on Thursday it had run out of flour and would suspend food deliveries to 750,000 Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after Israel closed border crossings....
ACC opens hearts to Iraqi refugee children
December 20th, 20080 Group forgoes annual executive party to help children have a good holiday OAK PARK — The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) skipped its annual Board of Directors holiday party this year and instead offered help to a group of Iraqi refugee children. Students whose families recently came to the U.S. as refugees from Iraq...
Arab Americans making a difference in Iraq
December 20th, 20080 Company running interpreter service praises community's contributions DEARBORN — A retired four-star Army general spoke at the Arab American National Museum on Monday about the role translators from the local community play in rebuilding Iraq. Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey (R) after receiving a key to the......
Man alleges racial, religious discrimination
December 20th, 20080 DEARBORN — The Wal-Mart in Dearborn has been a source of controversy for the city since opening in March 2008, and that trend continued Thursday as a $12-million lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Dearborn man alleging racial discrimination. Nabih Ayad and Associates law firm members (from left to right) Mona Fadlallah, Steve...Huge drug bust includes one Dearborn man
Three Michigan men, including one from Dearborn, have been charged in the largest illegal pill distribution scheme in the history of southeast Michigan. United States Attorney Terrence S. Berg announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging a medical business owner, a doctor and a pharmacist with conspiring to unlawfully......
Haddad begins job as Dearborn police chief
DEARBORN — Mayor Jack O'Reilly's appointment of Ron Haddad as the city's new police chief became official on Monday when Haddad was sworn-in by City Clerk Kathy Buda. O'Reilly selected Haddad to head the department in October, citing Haddad's extensive career on the front lines and in police administration, and his far-reaching...
How sweet it is at Candy Bouquet
December 20th, 20080 DEARBORN — With so many places offering holiday centerpieces and gift baskets, distinguishing between them all can be a tough task. Houda (left) and Zeinab Chami opened Candy Bouquet in September 2008. PHOTOS: Rached Elmasri and Nick Meyer/TAAN But one thing's for sure in the Dearborn area: there's no place......