Community turns out in droves for The Arab American News’ 30th anniversary dinner
April 24th, 20150 DEARBORN—The approximately 800 people who attended The Arab American News’ 30th anniversary banquet Thursday, April 23 at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center serves to demonstrate the degree of the admiration, respect and love the community has for the publication. The event— emceed by Dearborn Public Schools Board of Trustee...
Rep. Dingell urges State Department to take action to protect Americans in Yemen
April 24th, 20150 WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn) is urging the State Department to take increased steps to protect American citizens stranded in Yemen. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Dingell urged the State Department to prioritize the evacuation of American citizens living in Yemen and to...
Prosecutor Worthy announces no charges to be made in Kroger incident, Muslim man says children are seeking therapy
April 24th, 20150 Kroger, located on Greenfield and Michigan Ave.DEARBORN – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced on Friday, April 24 that she would not press charges in an incident that took place at a Dearborn Kroger earlier this year, involving a 61-year-old Arab-American Muslim man and two Caucasian men. The February 12 incident...
Dearborn Police announce department promotions
April 24th, 20150 Police Chief Ronald Haddad (front row, from left), Lt. Richard Conrad, Capt. Issa Shahin, Lt. Andreas Barnett, O’Reilly. (Second row, from left): Cpl. Christopher Brayman, Sgt. Andrea Danak and Sgt. Tim Stacy. (Third row, from left): Sgt. Madou Bazzi, Sgt. Donald Kozlowski, Sgt. Jonathan DeKiere and Sgt. Steven Faith. (Top row, from...
Arab Americans to participate in VisionWalk for the blind
April 24th, 20150 MILFORD — Khodar Farhat, a blind Lebanese American, is participating in the VisionWalk Michigan team’s One Spirit One Dream on Saturday, May 9 and encouraging others to join the effort. “The goal of this walk is to collect money that will be used to fund the research on the blind and hospitals who treat people who...
Community commemorates Qana at ICA
April 24th, 20150 DEARBORN — Nineteen years ago, the Israeli army shelled a United Nations compound that was sheltering civilians in Qana, south Lebanon, killing 106 people, including two children from Michigan. Almost two decades later, the memory of the victims has not faded; community members gathered at the Islamic Center of America on...
Stout Middle School production aims to revive creative arts programs district-wide
April 24th, 20150 Stout Middle School students.DEARBORN — Stout Middle School hosted its first musical production in 15 years on Tuesday, April 21, triggering a much needed musical program comeback in the Dearborn Public Schools. "School House Rock, Live! Jr.", led by stage director Rashid Baydoun and musical director Jim Walters, included a cast and...
Diversity in American media critical as cultural shift grows
April 24th, 20150 Panelists included (L-R) FOX News investigative reporter, M.L. Elrick; Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News; Chuck Stokes, editorial/public affairs director for WXYZ TV 7; Jackie Headapohi, managing editor, Detroit Jewish Newsand Bankole Thompson, editor of the Michigan...
Muslim father confronts hate protester with message of love
April 22nd, 20150 Dr. Houwari next to the anti-Muslim protester, Ann Arbor, April, 17 ANN ARBOR — Maybe the demonstrator who held an anti-Muslim sign in front of the Islamic Center of Ann Arbor was trying to provoke a negative response to reaffirm her misconceptions about Islam. Instead, she received nothing but love. "I serve a RISEN savior...
Dearborn woman in need of kidney donor
April 22nd, 20150 DEARBORN — resident Zeinab Atwi is in need of a kidney donor. She has been on dialysis for more than 10 years. Atwi has type B blood. A suitable donor may have type B or O blood. She is a student at Dorsey School in Dearborn and plans on pursing a career in the medical field. “She wants to work at...How the paper helped mold the community’s social and political landscape
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN — The Arab American News is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a community dinner at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, on Thursday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. The bilingual (Arabic - English) weekly newspaper is the largest and oldest Arab American publication in the country. "It has been a long, difficult but...
The Armenian genocide: Remembering pain and celebrating survival
April 17th, 20150 Armenian civilians, escorted by armed Ottoman soldiers to a prison, April 1915.DEARBORN — It has been a century since the Ottomans massacred 1.5 million Armenians and drove hundreds of thousands out of their ancestral homeland in what is today Turkey. But 100 years after the tragedy, Armenians are still holding on to the culture and...
Speaker at NRA annual meeting claims “no-go zones” exist in Dearborn
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN — According to a report on thinkprogress.org, during the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee this month, author Steve Tarani said he has witnessed the alleged “no go zones” – areas where police cannot enter— while shadowing a friend who serves on the “Detroit Metro SWAT Police”...
Michigan Muslims participate in food drive to honor Chapel Hill victims
April 17th, 20150 DEARBORN – Michigan Muslims are taking part in a national food drive campaign entitled “Feed Their Legacy”, created to honor victims of the Feb. 10 Chapel Hill, North Carolina shootings. The victims, Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, were shot execution-style at their home and their neighbor, a...Accused bullies could face legal troubles
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has filed petitions with the Oakland and Wayne County juvenile courts concerning two students accused of bullying a Black 13-year-old boy with racial slurs. The petition cites one of the alleged bullies with harassment and the other, who lives in Wayne County, with ethnic......
Detroit boy found in basement expected to testify against his parents
DETROIT — A 13-year-old boy reported missing for 10 days last summer and subsequently discovered in his parents’ basement, was expected at press time to testify on Thursday against them. The boy was discovered on June 25 as a result of a search warrant. Dr. Dena Nazer, chief of the child protection team at Children’s Hospital of...
Residents still unsatisfied with services, recurring flooding in Dearborn Heights
April 17th, 20150 Flooding in Dearborn Heights Thursday, April 9.DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Residents appear frustrated with city officials over flooding issues in their neighborhood streets and over lack of clean-up services. Following the heavy rain storm that occurred on Thursday, April 9, several residents claimed that flooding occurred in their......
Interfaith group aimed at debunking ignorance forms powerful friendships
April 17th, 20150 Members of "The Bridge" gather for a weekly meeting at a local home.DEARBORN — When Steven Urenda, a Christian from California, moved to Michigan, he never imagined that he would become close friends with local Muslims here. But two years later, his participation with a group called "The Bridge" has changed his conception of...
‘American Sniper’ screenings stirs controversy at U of M, EMU
April 17th, 20150 ANN ARBOR — Screenings of the movie "American Sniper" at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University last week sparked controversies that captured national headlines at both colleges, as student groups opposed showing the movie on the campuses. Critics of the movie say the Clint Eastwood-directed film, which is based...
Sam Yono elected board president of IVC Detroit
April 17th, 20150 DETROIT — Sam Yono, a Chaldean American businessman and community leader, was elected board president of the International Visitors Council of Metropolitan Detroit (IVC Detroit). Yono has worked with the IVC for two years and previously served as vice president of the board. He is the former chairman of the Chaldean Federation of...
TAAN publisher to discuss 30th anniversary dinner Sunday, April 19 on WXYZ
April 16th, 20150 DETROIT—Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News (TAAN), will appear on WXYZ Channel 7’s program, Spotlight Sunday, April 19. Siblani will join WXYZ Editorial/Public Affairs Director Chuck Stokes to discuss the 2016 White House race, TAAN’s upcoming 30th anniversary dinner and Proposition 1. A special election......
Dearborn armed robbery suspect in police custody
April 15th, 20150 DEARBORN — On April 14 around 7:20 p.m. with the help of the United States Marshals Service Dearborn Police arrested 17 year-old Ezra Rodriguez Jr, of Detroit, for crimes related to the April 7th, 2015 carjacking and kidnapping of a Dearborn woman. On Wednesday at 10 a.m. Rodriguez was arraigned in...
Great Revelations Academy Board of Education election held
April 15th, 20150 DEARBORN—The advisory board of the Al-Mabarrat charitable organization held an election on Tuesday March 31 to elect the Great Revelations Academy Board of Education (GRA). GRA is an independent, Islamic school scheduled to open Fall 2015 and includes grades K-9. Arabic and Islamic studies will be embedded......
Dearborn police seek public’s assistance finding diner robbery suspect
April 14th, 20150 DEARBORN—On Sunday, April 12 around 2 p.m. an armed robbery occurred at an all-night diner in the area of Southfield and Outer Drive. The suspect is described as a white male. He was wearing a black Carhart skull cap, and black cloth covering his face. He also has on a navy blue hoodie with the letters “American...
BRIDGES discusses civil rights with assistant attorney general
April 10th, 20150 DEARBORN — Arab American activists and civil rights advocates met with Vanita Gupta, the acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, as a part of BRIDGES. Community grievances, including the "no fly" and "terrorist watch" lists and mass closure of bank accounts, were discussed at the meeting, which took......
