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When President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visit Washington this month they will bring to U.S. President Barack Obama "a comprehensive project for Middle East peace" that will cover "not just the Palestinian issue but all that is related to Israeli occupation of Arab territories," Abbas said in Cairo...Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay
Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests. Israeli settlements Economic damage: The...How to make the neocons crazy over the Middle East: Tell them the truth
Old Charlie Krauthammer, the neocon who won't go away, is at it again. Charlie Krauthammer Now he's hammering at an old favorite target — the Hamas party and its political leader, Khaled Meshal — and its new accomplice, that scurrilously liberal newspaper, the New York Times. The Times' latest moral fault (according...
NAACP A century of freedom fighting
May 16th, 20090 A hundred years after its establishment, the nation's oldest civil rights organization is still expanding its influence, taking on universal issues and bringing more causes, movements and communities under its wing. Rev. Jesse Jackson, L, CNN analyst T.J. Holmes, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP Detroit chapter President Rev....Group to observe Al-Nakba anniversary
DEARBORN — The Palestine Office-Michigan is preparing to commemorate the 61st anniversary of "Al-Nakba" — Arabic for "the catastrophe" — with an event at the Hyatt Regency, 600 Town Center Drive in Dearborn at 6:30 p.m. A Palestinian child, wearing traditional clothes, takes part in a march at the Ain el-Hilweh refugee...Ticket-fixing scam uncovered in Dearborn
DEARBORN — A local police officer will be forced to stand trial after he was charged with operating a traffic ticket scam in the city of Dearborn. From top left, counterclockwise, Ramirez, Hojaije, Charara, Nimer. Dearborn officer Alex Brian Ramirez will face five separate felony charges, each carrying a penalty of five years...LAHC awards scholarships, newspaper honored
DEARBORN — The Lebanese American Heritage Club of Dearborn held its 21st annual Arab American Scholarship Foundation Dinner on Friday, May 8 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn, awarding scholarships to 55 local students. The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani, C, accepts an award from Lebanese American Heritage Club...
Arab students allege discrimination at UMD
May 9th, 20090 DEARBORN — A group of Arab American students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have raised complaints of discrimination after a student government election left them feeling excluded and ignored by university administrators. University of Michigan-Dearborn students campaign during student government elections on April 23....
Unstable Pakistan threatens the world
May 9th, 20090 America's attention has for several years been focused on the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for good reason. Thousands upon thousands of American troops, along with tens of thousands of civilians, have been killed and maimed. The consequences for the world from these ongoing wars weigh heavily upon everything from global...Federal agencies meet with community leaders, deny forcing Muslims to spy on mosques
Arab American and American Muslim community leaders attorney Nabih Ayad, L, Allie Berry, Imad Hamad, Osama Siblani, Dawud Walid and Nadia Fadel address law enforcement officials during an April 30 meeting in Dearborn addressing tensions over surveillance that have risen in recent weeks between communities and agencies like the...Longtime activist to receive community peacemaker award
A Livonia Arab American is being recognized as a community peacemaker by the Wayne State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, which is expected to honor the Vietnam veteran during a May 14 reception at the Next Energy building, 461 Burroughs Street in Detroit. Ron Amen, pictured with wife Mona Amen, is to receive an...Dearborn Stars back at it in ’09, Michigan Eagles kick off inaugural season
The Dearborn Stars welcomed the new season at a gathering at the Lebanese American Heritage Club this week. PHOTO: Tariq Abdal Wahid DEARBORN — The Dearborn Stars' 2008 season was a successful one as they became one of the top teams in the Michigan Premier Soccer League in their first season since 2000. The Lebanese...ACCESS celebrates 38th anniversary
DETROIT — A crowd of more than 2,000 people settled into the Renaissance Center in Detroit on May 2 to celebrate the accomplishments of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services and to look ahead to the challenges of the future. Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, C, poses with ACCESS leaders after...Disappointing turnout in Dearborn Heights school election
Once more, the voters of the city of Dearborn Heights showed us how every vote counts, or more specifically, how a mere 38 votes can deprive a qualified community activist like Wanda Saad from serving on the Crestwood Board of Education. In a special election held Tuesday, May 5, only a handful of voters cast their ballots, most of...
Upset victory for Bing in Detroit
May 9th, 20090 Detroit Mayor-elect Dave Bing met with Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. on Thursday and prepared to meet with the city's top financial officials, beginning his transition into office, after upsetting Cockrel in Tuesday's special election to complete the term of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in September. Detroit......
Arab American Service Day spans country
Arab Americans across the country will unite for the common good on May 16 across 19 American cities from New York to San Francisco for the 5th Annual Arab American Service Day. The event, which runs from 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. is coordinated by the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), a project of the Arab Community...
The Palestinian Authority’s authoritarian turn
May 9th, 20091 Last week, less than two weeks after I had talked with him in his an-Najah University faculty office, Abdel Sattar Qassem was arrested by the Palestinian Preventive Security forces in Nablus, occupied West Bank. Palestinian dissident Abdel Sattar Qassem, C, walks with students at An Najah University on May 20, 2002 in the......
LAHC to award scholarships
The Lebanese American Heritage Club will continue promoting higher education in the Arab American community with a reception honoring 55 scholarship winners at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 8. Lebanese American Heritage Club and Arab American Scholarship Foundation executives Hassen Hammoud (L),...Walk2Gether event on Belle Isle to support diversity and inclusion
DETROIT — The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion expects thousands of participants at its May 9 Walk2gether event on Belle Isle, where walkers will demonstrate their support for diversity and inclusion. "This event is the premier celebration of Michigan's rich diversity and brings together people from the business,...Detroit Zoo Kidney Walk on May 17
ROYAL OAK — More than 900,000 Michigan adults have chronic kidney disease and most don't even know it. The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (NKFM) wants you to help in the fight against kidney disease. The Detroit Zoo will host the 13th annual Kidney Walk on Sunday, May 17. The NKFM welcomes people of all ages to...Star International Academy welcomes special visitor
DEARBORN — Star International Academy of Dearborn was the recipient of a visit from the mayor of Amsheet, Lebanon on Monday for a first-hand look at how the highly-regarded preschool-12th grade school operates. Star Academy founder and superintendent Nawal Hamadeh, L, enjoys lunch with Ghattas Sleiman, Mayor of......
State’s oldest mosque celebrating 70 years
May 2nd, 20090 American Moslem Society congregation members before praying at an Eid Al-Adha gathering. When telling about the roots of their experience in the U.S., all the old-timers of metro Detroit's Arab American community always flash back to times in Dearborn's south end. And waves of new immigrants have never stopped moving into...More than two million refugees waiting to go home
WASHINGTON — The government of Iraq and the international community must establish safe conditions for the return of 2.6 million displaced Iraqis, says a new field report by the non-profit group Refugees International. The report, "Iraq: Preventing the Point of No Return," issued two weeks ago, notes that despite encouraging returns,......
Film examines paranoia over anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (IPS) — "I have never experienced anti-Semitism myself, but it's a phrase that always seems to be in the air," begins Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir's lively new documentary "Defamation". "Three words seem to appear over and over again: Holocaust, Nazi, anti-Semitism." This phenomenon will be equally familiar to viewers in...
Detroit, Dearborn Heights elections on May 5
May 2nd, 20090 Detroit voters will go to the polls on May 5 to choose who will serve out the remainder of disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term, while Dearborn Heights Crestwood school district voters will choose two of four board of education candidates, two of whom are Arab Americans. Dave Bing Mayoral candidates Dave Bing......