Woman fights city as foreclosure looms
November 1st, 20080 Maria Gavrau, a 61 year-old Romanian immigrant who's lived in her Dearborn home for 18 years, is facing foreclosure after a severe fall on the sidewalk outside her home in April left her injured, causing her to lose her job as a...
Rugby gains popularity in Dearborn
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — Since they're at a commuter college, the athletic programs at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have had a hard time finding success. Some sports such as hockey have had their share of good seasons, but consistency is hard to come by for many of the other sports. Just two years into their existence as a sport at UM-D,...Conference dispels stereotypes
DEARBORN — Arabophobia in America was the subject of Arab Detroit's annual workshop, "Images and Perceptions of Arab Americans," on Thursday, October 22, at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. The event, entitled "Arabophobia in the Media: Myth or Reality," hosted various media figures and included workshop sessions that focused...
City to suspend parking rules near election sites
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — The city will suspend enforcement of Public Service Day parking rules near polling sites on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, to allow voters to cast their ballots without worrying about the twice-a-month parking restrictions. Public Service Day parking rules will be enforced as normal that day on streets not near polling...HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE: PLAYOFFS-WEEK 1
Dearborn High School (6-3, 4-2 Mega Red) Last week: Lost to Detroit Country Day, 42-37 Playoffs: at Walled Lake Western, Saturday at 7 p.m. Edsel Ford (8-1, 5-1 Mega Blue) Last week: Beat Dearborn Heights Crestwood, 53-7 Playoffs: vs. Wyandotte Roosevelt at home, Friday at 7 p.m. Fordson (9-0, 6-0 Mega Red) Last...Groundbreaking interfaith conference
PONTIAC — The first annual New Directions New Connections conference, which the Michigan Roundtable is co-sponsoring with the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) will be held on Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 10-11, at the Marriott Pontiac Centerpoint and will feature Reuniting the Children of Abraham on Monday evening. While walk-ins will be...
Detroit Medical Center opens Dearborn site
October 31st, 20080 Dearborn — The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) has established a new Wellness Center at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. The DMC Wellness Center will offer a variety of health and wellness programs, physical therapy, athletic training and injury prevention programs. Wellness Programs include basic health...
Anthony fires up AAPAC crowd
October 26th, 20080 DEARBORN - The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) distributed its official election literature, energized its membership and presented public service awards at its annual banquet on Friday. Arab American Political Action Commitee awardees, elected officials and guests, including Rev. Wendell Anthony, head of the...Final Iraq agreement reveals farce
WASHINGTON (IPS) - The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought. An Iraqi girl watches as U.S soldiers search her family house in a village near Baquba in Diyala...Another Canadian held abroad
Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal has been sitting in an Ethiopian jail for two years, having been arrested while fleeing Somalia during the fighting in that country. Kenya, to where he fled, turned him in to Ethiopia, where he was born. Family suspect that Ethiopia jailed him because his grandfather was a founder of the Ogaden...
Bush bio-pic good way to end regime
October 25th, 20080 Now playing. Rated PG-13. Written by Stanley Weiser. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, James Cromwell, Richard Dreyfuss, Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright. Running time: 125 minutes. Lionsgate. It's probably not easy to be fair when making a movie about George W. Bush, but director...The rape of Palestine
"Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine," by William A. Cook, Netherlands, 2008 The cover of "Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine" tells a significant story on its own: from a Palestine of green dotted with a few Jewish settlements, mainly in the north, transiting through the UN partition plan...
ACC continues Detroit redevelopment
October 25th, 20080 DETROIT — The Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) has opened the doors to its newest building dedicated to culture and social services, part of an effort to rejuvenate a Seven Mile neighborhood. The new 13,000 square-foot Artisana and Adult Learning Center on Seven Mile Road near John R. Road in Detroit has opened its...
Fordson primed for state title run
October 25th, 20080 DEARBORN — Dearborn Fordson football fans have always been a prideful, some might say boastful group, but after surprisingly early exits in the playoffs the past few years, some of that enthusiasm appears to have waned. A few days ago I was chatting in an auto shop with a couple of former Fordson athletes, both wrestlers and one a...
New website educates on Islam
October 25th, 20080 In light of the recent distribution of more than 28 million copies of the widely-criticized anti-Muslim DVD "Obsession," it seems as if the website ChangeTheStory.net's launch couldn't have come at a better time. The site, which aims to clear up widely-held misconceptions about Muslims, launched on September 24, 2008 and was founded......
Students build electric car at DCMST
DEARBORN — Faced with the soaring cost of gasoline and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions a group of dedicated students at the Dearborn Center for Math, Science and Technology (DCMST), a high school magnet program in the Dearborn Public School District, have been exploring what it takes to build a car to address these...Scholarships available for Arab American women
Dearborn — The Arab American Women's Business Council (AAWBC) is looking to foster the growth and academic achievement of young Arab American women. Last month, the AAWBC established a scholarship fund to "be presented to younger, financially disadvantaged females of Arab descent. "As successful Arab American women, we feel an......
Muslim think tank to hold dinner
October 25th, 20080 Novi — The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) is scheduled to host its 7th annual dinner on Saturday, November 15 in Novi, Michigan. The event will begin at 7 pm at the Novi Sheraton. This year's dinner will feature keynote speaker Dr. Robert A. Pape who will present on the topic, "How the next president can make...
Muslim charities aid in hurricane relief efforts
October 25th, 20080 Southfield — As part of its ongoing efforts to alleviate human suffering, the American-based relief organization, Life for Relief and Development (LIFE) in partnership with the Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Charity (MBRMC), a prominent humanitarian relief organization in the United Arab Emirates, recently completed the...
Maestro’s adds flair to west Dearborn
October 25th, 20080 Before Le Cigar came along, the plaza where it sits between Military and Howard streets on Michigan Avenue was anything but a popular destination in west Dearborn. But now it’s a thriving area with upscale businesses and some of the most well-known places to hang out on in the area. Customers enjoying Maestro's drink...
Arab or Decent?
October 17th, 20080 Arab Americans criticize McCain remarks, disappointed with Obama DEARBORN — The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) released scathing criticisms of both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on Thursday in a statement that focused on comments made by McCain in response to a supporter who said she didn't trust......
Islamic Congress loses again
On October 10, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission handed down a decision dismissing charges brought by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) against Maclean's magazine. The Congress complained to the Commission that an article in the magazine by Mark Steyn entitled "The Future Belongs to Islam" was anti-Muslim hate propaganda,...Kurdish Jews recall a paradise lost
SAN FRANCISCO (IPS) — It's become popular, when talking about ongoing violence in U.S.-occupied Iraq, for officials in Washington and the media to paint the Iraqi people as savages who can't help but keep killing each other. In the vice presidential debate, Democrat Joe Biden said "the history of the last 700 years" showed the Iraqi......
19th District Court candidates
October 17th, 20080 The race for 19th District Court Judge in Dearborn will be decided at the polls on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Mark Somers will face off against challenger and local lawyer Candyce Abbatt for the seat. In an effort to get to know the candidates better, The Arab American News asked them to answer the following questions via e-mail...
Community challenges new FBI measures
October 17th, 20080 DEARBORN - Arab American community leaders voiced growing concerns with several issues involving law enforcement agencies Thursday at a Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity (BRIDGES) meeting. About 60 Arab American leaders and law enforcement officials discuss civil rights issues at the Lebanese American......
