Yemen Nights Café serves unique flavors
Because Dearborn is home to some of the best food in southeast Michigan, it's tempting for many residents to stay in town for most of their meals. Yemen Nights offers a new twist on Arabic food dining in the Dearborn area as well as a comfortable place to relax with friends. But those who venture just outside of city limits to...Conventions and festivals fill summer schedule
SAN FRANCISCO — Palestinians from across the U.S., along with some who traveled from Palestine, celebrated the 51st annual Ramallah convention here last week. A fashion show held during the annual Ramallah Convention in San Francisco on June 26. PHOTO: Ramsey El-Qare The convention was held at the San Francisco International...Seeing through all the propaganda about Iran
WASHINGTON — Iran's political crisis continues to blaze. It's still impossible to say which leaders or factions will emerge victorious, but one thing is certain: the earthquake in the Islamic Republic is shaking the Mideast and deeply confusing everyone, including the U.S. government. Highlighting the complexity of this crisis, Meir...Time for immigration reform is now
Editor's Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media (www.newamericamedia.org), a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform. The White House and members of Congress must move quickly on...Seeing through Israel’s delay tactics
The growing divide between the Obama administration and the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's expansion of its West Bank settlements has led to delay tactics by Israel. President Obama must see through them and press his criticism or risk losing credibility among Arabs. Children of Jewish...
Mother of hit-and-run victim dies in Lebanon
June 27th, 20090 Shadia Faraj, the mother of one of two cousins killed in a Detroit car crash on May 17, died of a heart attack on June 19 in Lebanon, according to family members. She was 41. Shadia Faraj Faraj, who lived in Dearborn, went to Lebanon in May to oversee the burial of her son and nephew, whose bodies were sent there to be...Summer festivals in full swing
An estimated 260,000 people attended the 14th Annual Arab International Festival on Warren Avenue in Dearborn last weekend to enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of Arab culture. An elderly vendor sells worry beads during the Dearborn Arab International Festival on June 19. PHOTOS: Natasha Dado/TAAN The number was down from an...Internationally-known activist to speak at Palestine event
DETROIT — Regina Birchem, former president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), is expected to make an appearance at an event addressing Palestinian human rights July 1 at the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, 111 E. Kirby Street in Detroit at 7 p.m. Regina Birchem Birchem...Iraq ambassador addresses local aid fundraiser
FARMINGTON HILLS — About 300 people gathered in the Farmington Hills Manor last week as Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. Samir Sumaida'ie keynoted a first annual fundraising gala for local charity For Victims of War and Poverty, founded by pharmacist Nidhal Garmo. Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. Samir Sumaida’ie PHOTO: Jessica...Huge crowd turns out for ACC job fair
The Arab American and Chaldean Council’s first job fair in Hamtramck ran from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, but that didn’t stop swarms of applicants from lining up as early as 8 a.m. for the chance to speak with employers. About 400 job seekers attended the ACC's first-ever job fair in Hamtramck on Wednesday. PHOTO: Tariq...Company urges perseverance in foreclosure fight
DEARBORN — With the potential for as many as ten million American people facing home foreclosure in the next 3-5 years, it's no wonder that tons of organizations are popping up in an attempt to help. LoanMod.com co-founder and CEO Moose Scheib started his company in Dearborn in 2006 to help save homeowners from the ravages...
Convention celebrates new era of hope and change
June 19th, 20090 Arab Americans from across the country descended on Washington, DC last weekend for what has become an annual tradition in the nation’s capital. Former U.S President Bill Clinton with ADC President Mary Rose Oakar during ADC's national convention in Washington on June 13. PHOTO: ADC The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination...Arab festival this weekend
DEARBORN — The Lebanese American Heritage Club, the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, ACCESS and the city of Dearborn will host the 14th annual Dearborn Arab International Festival this weekend, June 19-21. The event is the largest Arab festival in the nation. The festival will occupy more then half a mile of Warren Avenue and...ACLU report blasts terror financing laws and investigations
WASHINGTON (IPS) — Muslim charities in the United States are subject to unfair treatment by the government under terrorism financing laws, according to a new report that says the effect has been a chill on charitable giving that violates Muslims' right to freely practice an important requirement of their religion. The...
The people fight back in Detroit
June 19th, 20090 DETROIT — As voices of anger and frustration echoed through the air at Grand Circus Park in Detroit on Tuesday, many onlookers couldn't help but stop by to see what all the noise was about. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, center, and Reverend Edwin Rowe, L, of Central United Methodist Church in Detroit. PHOTO: NIck......
Anger, arrogance cause quandary in Iran
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi (C waving) speaks to supporters at a rally in Tehran June 18, 2009. REUTERS Friday, June 12, 2009 was a dynamic day in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thirty years after its establishment under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, the Iranian democracy should...
Iranian election riots not homegrown
June 19th, 20090 As this is being written, official announcements in Iran today of a landslide victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being met with cries of "fraud" by supporters of his principal challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The New York Times is reporting that "at least one person had been shot dead in......
Netanyahu’s speech draws sharp criticism
DEARBORN — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Sunday, June 14 that some have described as a groundbreaking acceptance of the creation of a Palestinian state, while others call it a debilitating step backwards in the peace process. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on June 17,...Future wide open for ethnic media
Ethnic media voices are critical to the national discourse, according to University of Michigan administrators at a university press conference. The June 12 convening was part of University of Michigan-Dearborn's series on media diversity and social change, and the first ever to include a panel of ethnic media. Journalists of a...Book review: Must-read about the nuclear mess
Stephanie Cooke's "In Mortal Hands"In an era when corporate media, corporate politicians and corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they should spend much of that rhetorical energy cross-examining themselves in a mirror. North Korea's latest...CAIR holds civil rights townhall amid concerns
CAIR holds civil rights townhall amid concerns DETROIT — The Council on American Islamic Relations held a meeting on Friday, June 12 to discuss several issues in the Muslim community. These included airport profiling, FBI informants and citizenship processing delays. CAIR-Michigan Director Dawud Walid, L, and CAIR......
Long way from ‘Settlerland’ to ‘Palestineland’
JERUSALEM — Has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got the Obama message? To judge by his minimalist response to President Barack Obama's landmark Cairo University address and his continuing reluctance to meet Obama's demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlements, the answer would seem to be, 'No'. It's a mighty...
Goodbye, GM
June 12th, 20090 I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will......
Good place to start learning about Iran
Robert Baer's "The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower" Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many references within other texts dealing with other aspects of the Middle East and the several texts dealing specifically with Iran highlight its significance. Part of that significance is that Iran...Mixed local reactions to Lebanon election
A Lebanese family show their ink-stained fingers at a polling station in Beirut's suburbs June 7, 2009. Lebanese voters cast ballots in a tightly contested general election on Sunday pitting March 14th coalition against the March 8th coalition. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi Lebanese Americans from throughout Metro Detroit are expressing......
