Dave Abdallah: Mastering the games of business and politics
May 26th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Dearborn native Dave Abdallah is a well-known name in the Metro Detroit area. His real estate agent team within Century 21 Curran & Christie has been first in the ranking in Michigan since 2001. In November 2015, he also became a member of the Dearborn Heights City Council. The tapestry of Abdallah's story is...
Troy City Council unanimously passes ‘welcoming city’ resolution
May 26th, 20170 TROY — On Tuesday, May 23, the Troy City Council passed a unanimous resolution giving the municipality "welcoming city" status. The passage of the resolution followed a long and lengthy process, starting with the introduction of the idea by Welcoming Michigan, in coordination with Troy's Global Advisory Committee, of including the...
Local student-led organization promotes literacy, offers tutoring
May 26th, 20170 DEARBORN — Books For a Benefit, a non-profit organization led by students from Dearborn, has expanded across Southeast Michigan— collecting and redistributing 40,000 books to promote literacy to students facing academic barriers. After using social media as a marketing tool to ask people to donate books their children may have...
Women’s limited roles in mosques and churches: Religious or cultural?
May 26th, 20171 DEARBORN — "Qali'bu Maryam", translated as "the Heart of Mariam", became the first U.S. women's mosque when it opened up in northern California in April. Describing the mosque as an "inclusive space", founder Rabi'a Keeble opened up a center where men and women pray side by side. "What is important to me is not, necessarily, to...
BREAKING: ICE detains employees at Ann Arbor restaurant
May 24th, 20170 ANN ARBOR-After eating breakfast at popular Ann Arbor restaurant, Sava's, a small team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers proceeded to interrogate and detain between three and five employees. The officers entered the restaurant, located at 216 S. State around 11:30 A.M. on Wednesday, entering the kitchen while the...
Palestinian solidarity activists’ homes targeted in Pro-Israel intimidation campaign
May 22nd, 20171 Berkeley, CA-University of California lecturer Hatem Bazian noticed a flyer placed on his winsheild when he went to drop off his daughter at school the morning of May 10. He was appalled to confront an image of himself on a flyer that claimed he "supports terror." Pictured alongside Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish...
Ford to cut 1,400 white-collar jobs, shares tumble
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — Ford Motor Co plans to cut 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price. Ford shares fell as much as 2.5 percent in heavy trading Wednesday and were headed to their worst close since...
Palestinian cartoonist shares his people’s struggle at ‘artist talk’ in Detroit
May 19th, 20170 DETROIT — Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Sabaaneh came to terms with his heritage as a child, which forever changed the orientation of himself and his work and shaped, from an early age, his activism. " I was 6-years-old, I asked the name of my country," Sabaaneh said. His mother replied, "You are from Palestine." As part of...
Dearborn Heights Police seeking to recruit Arab Americans
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — As the Arab American community continues to grow in Dearborn Heights, the city hopes to recruit more representatives to its police department. Recently, a fourth Arab American was added to the police force, which comprises 82 police officers in total. Chief Lee Gavin expressed concerns that none...
Air Force Captain Rawan Latif follows a family tradition of service
May 19th, 20170 DETROIT — On May 10, Detroit native Rawan Latif, 24, became a captain in the United States Air Force. That is only one of many ways in which Latif has served both her local community and the United States at large. Latif, who is stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, comes from a family involved in service, with an uncle who...
Rep. Hammoud introduces resolution condemning hate crimes and discrimination
May 19th, 20170 LANSING — State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud (D-Dearborn) introduced a resolution condemning hate crimes and any other acts of discrimination, urging Congress to investigate and prosecute. House Resolution 99 was drafted with the assistance of Emgage (Empowering Engaged Muslims), a non-partisan organization formerly known as Emerge USA, in...
Unis Middle School hosts FIRST tech challenge
May 19th, 20171 DEARBORN — If you come to Unis Middle School on a typical Saturday morning, it wouldn't be difficult to find a parking spot. On May 13, however, things were different. Unis hosted its debut FIRST Tech Challenge. FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) is a K-12 program for students age 6 to 18-years-old...
Outside Washington, a ‘more powerful’ immigrant rights movement emerges
May 19th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO — Immigrant rights advocates say that despite the cloud of fear hanging over communities in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, there is also a growing and increasingly organized resistance. "We are seeing an increase in the number of people apprehended for removal," Melissa Chua, immigration director of...
Immigration arrests up nearly 40 percent under Trump
May 19th, 20170 NEW YORK — U.S. arrests of suspected illegal immigrants rose by nearly 40 percent in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, following executive orders that broadened the scope of who could be targeted for immigration violations, according to government data released on Wednesday. The acting director of Immigration and...
Former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning leaves prison
May 19th, 20171 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chelsea Manning walked out of a U.S. military prison on Wednesday, seven years after being arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history. Manning, 29, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at about 2 a.m., according......
Special counsel named to investigate Trump-Russia ties
May 19th, 20170 WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Justice Department named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Trump's campaign and Moscow. The move followed a week in which the White House was thrown into an uproar amid...
New supermarket opens to meet demand of diverse communities
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In the increasingly diverse Southeast Michigan region, markets catering to the cuisine of one's homeland can be far and few. Dearborn, which harbors the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, has overcome that problem, as streets like Warren Avenue are lined with Mediterranean grocers. A......
A view from the bench: Spending the day with Dearborn Judge Gene Hunt
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — In the chambers of newly minted 19th District Court Judge Gene Hunt, music from counter-culture America echoed off walls adorned with signed portraits of The Beatles, of his children and Fordson High School football teams he used to coach. It had only been 112 days since Hunt was invested as a judge, yet he appeared...
AAYSP awards 25 scholarships at eighth annual gala
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — On May 17, The American Association of Yemeni Students and Professionals (AAYSP) awarded scholarships to 25 high school seniors and undergraduate students at its eighth annual scholarship gala. The event took place at Byblos Banquet Hall and was made possible through community sponsors. AAYSP Michigan chapter President...
DTE Energy to hold informative meeting about gas meters renewal in Dearborn
May 19th, 20170 DEARBORN — DTE Energy invites Dearborn residents and business owners in the area enclosed by Chase Road and E. Moross Circle, and W. Warren and Tireman to a May 24 public meeting about the extensive gas meter and gas line replacement project in their neighborhood. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24 at the Henry Ford...
Wayne County Sheriff: We won’t turn over immigrants to ICE
May 18th, 20170 DETROIT ― Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon has ordered his staff to deny requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to turn over immigrant inmates without a warrant signed by a federal judge or magistrate. In an April 28 memo from Napoleon obtained by The AANews the sheriff wrote: “Recent court decisions have......
BREAKING: Michigan Senate votes to outlaw female genital mutilation
May 17th, 20170 LANSING-The Michigan Senate approved legislation on Wednesday making genital mutilation of girls a state felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison, both for doctors who perform the procedure and parents who transport a child to undergo the surgery. The legislation, which now goes to the state House of Representatives, was spurred...
U.S. immigration arrests up nearly 40 percent under Trump
May 17th, 20170 NEW YORK- U.S. arrests of suspected illegal immigrants rose by nearly 40 percent in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, following executive orders that broadened the scope of who could be targeted for immigration violations, according to government data released on Wednesday. The acting director of Immigration and Customs......
Concerns emerge over racism, anti-Semitism in Detroit Fire Department
May 16th, 20170 DETROIT ― The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is raising concerns about racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the city of Detroit’s Fire Department – specifically in the EMS Division. The concerns are linked to the Facebook account of Captain Tim Goodman, described as “a torrent of racist and...
To ease fears, U.S. Muslim schools reach out to neighbors
May 14th, 20170 NEW YORK- At a Roman Catholic high school in New York's Long Island suburbs, two dozen visiting Muslim students knelt and prayed while teens in uniform blazers from the host school looked on. The trip's agenda was simple: give students whose schools are just 10 miles (16 km) apart but culturally worlds away a chance to get to know each......
