High School Football
Dearborn High: (3-1, 2-1 in Mega Red Division) Last week: Defeated Allen Park, 38-35. This week: at Taylor Truman, 7 p.m. Friday. Edsel Ford: (3-1, 2-1 Mega Blue)- Last week: Lost to Inkster, 41-7. This week: vs. Romulus, 7 p.m. Fordson High: (4-0, 2-0 Mega Red)- Last week: Defeated Redford...
Palestinian peace group holds major conference
September 26th, 20080 BIRMINGHAM — Friends of Sabeel International, a Christian grassroots organization that fights for peace and liberty in Palestine, is holding a major conference September 25-27 at First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. The first day featured Anna Baltzer, Jewish American author of "Witness in Palestine," who gave a slide...
Event raises money for orphans in Lebanon
September 26th, 20080 Dearborn — The Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization U.S.A. (AMCO USA) will be holding its fourteenth annual fundraising dinner this Saturday, September 27, at the Islamic Center of America, located at 19500 Ford Road. The program will begin at 6:30 and will run until the fast breaking meal is served. Since 1994, the...
Charter school offers Arabic classes, diverse atmosphere
September 26th, 20080 A charter school in east Dearborn that focuses on diversity and Arabic language instruction reached out to the community on Tuesday in an open house event aimed at bringing parents, teachers, students and friends closer together. The event wasn't a typical school open house, said Dearborn Academy principal Caterina Berry. In...
Voters’ forums to be held in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights
September 26th, 20080 The League of Women Voters of Dearborn-Dearborn Heights is sponsoring four forums on September 30 and October 1, to get voters familiar with various candidates running for office in November. The first is scheduled at 7 p.m. at Dearborn City Hall inside Council Chambers, featuring the two judicial candidates for 19th District...
Deadline to register to vote approaching
September 26th, 20080 Citizens who want to participate in one of the most historic US elections ever have to make sure they're registered soon, as the October 6 deadline to secure a ballot approaches. Registering to vote is easy, but remains one of the biggest obstacles to turning out big numbers on election day. Some basic questions about getting...
Students cap off Ramadan by gathering help for needy
September 26th, 20080 A group of ninth-graders at Al-Ihsan Academy, a private school housed inside the Islamic Center of Detroit, is gathering thousands of food items to donate the needy as Ramadan winds down. The school has a food drive every year, but this year a group of boys and girls wanted to take it to the next level. "We wanted to share it...
Meisner challenging Dohany for Oakland treasurer seat
September 26th, 20080 While people across Michigan view Oakland County as the most prosperous in the state, that doesn't mean it is immune to the financial trouble and problems other counties have faced. The foreclosure crisis in particular has hit Oakland County hard, with 14,071 filings in 2007 according to Andy Meisner. It is no surprise that the...
Two Board of Education seats up for grabs
September 26th, 20080 DEARBORN — When Dearborn voters make their final decisions on a presidential candidate and cast their ballots November 4, among the other choices they'll have to make at the polls will be picking two of five candidates for the local Board of Education. BlackburnCandidates include incumbents Aimee Blackburn and Sharon Dulmage,...
ACC’s 29th Annual Civic & Humanitarian Awards Gala
September 26th, 20080 ACC: 29th Annual Civic & Humanitarian Awards Gala The Art of Giving - The Seven Mile Development Initiative The Arab American and Chaldean Council's 29th Annual Civic & Humanitarian Awards Gala was held on September 13, 2008 at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit to celebrate the power of human creativity and...Religious Jewish opposition to Zionism
Jewish anti-Zionism is an ongoing movement. It used to be the predominant voice, while today it is very much in the minority, largely because of the Holocaust. The book's subtitle, "A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism," is, however, rather misleading. More descriptive is the original French title, which...Victim of U.S. torture freed
Javed Yazamy gives the lie to Condoleezza Rice's most famous pronouncement: "We don't do torture." He had broken ribs, acquired at Bagram. His crime was that he, a journalist, went into Taliban territory and interviewed Taliban. Much of his work was for the Canadian television station CTV, serving as a translator...
ACC gala honors charitable organizations
September 19th, 20080 DETROIT — A wide network of supporters of the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) gathered at the Renaissance Center on Sept. 13 to celebrate the power of human creativity and generosity. At the 29th annual ACC Civic and Humanitarian Awards Gala, the group recognized Detroit-area charitable organizations and featured...
Arab American PAC interviews candidates
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — With election season fast approaching, the Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) conducted personal interviews of five local candidates at The Arab American News office in Dearborn on Monday. The goal of the interviews was to get to know each candidate on a deeper level through 15-minute question-and-answer...
Local martial arts school produces champions
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — It's often said that the key to success in martial arts is to have a great teacher. In the case of Master Ali Koubeissi's tae kwon do students, that statement couldn't ring more true. Koubeissi, who teaches at Kouibessi Tae Kwon Do School on Michigan Avenue between Schaefer and Greenfield in Dearborn, has helped many......
Leaders reject Wygonik statement again
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — Local Arab American leaders rejected a second letter submitted to them by 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik on Thursday addressing alleged offensive remarks he made during a July conversation with Dearborn Heights Councilman Tom Berry. After meeting with a committee representing the Congress of Arab American...
Public Service Day parking enforcement starts Oct. 6
September 19th, 20080 Residents also advised about new rules for loose leaf collection DEARBORN — Enforcement begins in Dearborn the week of Oct. 6-10 of the rules that prohibit on-street parking during Public Service Days. Public Service Days mean cleaner neighborhoods. To allow work crews the chance to deliver the maximum level of services like......
Sheriff warns parents about posting videos of children on Internet sites
September 19th, 20080 To a proud parent it may seem innocent enough: Your child is doing something completely adorable while taking a bath or while in their "birthday suit," so you take some video and post it online to share it with the world. No big deal, right? Not so fast, according to Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, who says that there...
Dearborn High School Football
September 19th, 20080 Dearborn High: (2-1, 1-1 in Mega Red Division) Last week: Lost to Southgate Anderson, 25-22. This week: at home vs. Allen Park, Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Edsel Ford: (3-0, 2-0 Mega Blue) Last week: Defeated Melvindale, 28-12. This week: at Inkster, Saturday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. Fordson High:...
New police chief named for Detroit
September 19th, 20080 DETROIT — Incoming Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel announced James Barren, a psychologist and counter-terrorism expert who has spent time training Iraqi police, as the city's new chief of police. Barren, who spent 31 years on the force before his retirement four years ago, replaces former Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, who retired...To hell and back
It was one of the worst killing sprees of the twentieth century. The actual number is still in dispute, but as many as 3,000 unarmed men, women and children of the Sabra/Shatila refugee camps in west Beirut were systematically slaughtered by Lebanese Christian militiamen with Israeli help for the crime of being Palestinian. The......
Israeli, Canadian water experts collaborate
Last month Israeli Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon and Efi Stenzler, head of the Jewish National Fund, returned from a visit to Manitoba with an agreement to share expertise. Manitoba experts will teach Israel about water conservation and Israeli experts will instruct Manitobans about water purification. Water is a major...
Noted anti-Zionist to make appearance in Dearborn
September 19th, 20080 Dearborn — Norman Finklestein, the resilient former Depaul University professor who resigned after an all out attack from the right-wing propagandist attorney Alan Dershowitz, will address the Metro Detroit community in an event open to the public and the media on Friday, Sept. 26. The speaking engagement was scheduled by local......
Obama campaign meets with Arab Americans
September 12th, 20080 Arab Americans listen to a group of high-level Barack Obama presidential campaign figures in a meeting at a Southfield banquet hall Tuesday. SOUTHFIELD – High-level Barack Obama campaign figures met with a group of Arab Americans on Tuesday to discuss foreign and domestic policy issues in an effort to shore up support from a...
Flint police chief revokes gag rule in response to ACLU lawsuit
September 12th, 20080 DETROIT — Flint Police Chief David Dicks will rescind his controversial gag rule on police officer speech to the press in response to a free speech lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan on behalf of three police union leaders. "We hope that Chief Dicks' announcement signals a change of heart and......
