U.S. Treasury Department holds roundtable with Arab Americans
August 22nd, 20080 On Friday, August 15, members of the Arab American and American Muslim communities gathered at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion entitled "Charitable Principals of Good Governance and Anti-Terrorist Financing Best Practices." The day-long event was co-organized by the...
Local café has college town feel
August 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — When Ahmad Hamdan opened up the Hot Spot Café on Michigan Avenue in West Dearborn in February, he brought with him a tremendous understanding of the sandwich business. Hamdan had owned a Subway franchise in Inkster and worked at a Tubby's, and he knew what his customers liked. But what he didn't know was how to cook...
Wygonick, community leaders meet
August 22nd, 20080 Judge WygonikDEARBORN — Five weeks after accusations arose that 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik made disparaging comments about Dearborn Arab Americans in a conversation with another elected official, community leaders met with the judge and said they’ve agreed to a potential resolution that would ease tensions and...
Presidential candidate pays visit to Dearborn
August 22nd, 20080 About a dozen Arab American community leaders and activists met with Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr on Aug. 8 at Ollie's restaurant in Dearborn. Barr visited the Islamic Center of America, spoke at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and held a fundraiser at the Ritz Carlton during his visit to Dearborn. Barr is on the...
Demonstrators protest apartheid at State fairgrounds
August 22nd, 20080 DETROIT — Dozens of pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation activists demonstrated outside the Michigan State fairgrounds on Thursday. They protested a celebration of the 60th year since the creation of the state of Israel, put on by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit (JFMD). Invitees of the JFMD had access to all the rides...
Back to school with new backpacks
August 22nd, 20080 Over the past five years, 5,000 young lives have been touched by Wayne County's hugely popular Back-to-School program started by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano. This year, 1,500 more children were presented with backpacks filled with school supplies to start the school year off right. On August 20, as part of the...
Tlaib credits pounding the pavement for her landslide win
August 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN — In today's political age, it seems as if the best way to win an important race is to spend more money on advertising than the next candidate. But after her win in the Democratic primary election (with 44% of the vote) for State Representative in Michigan's 12th House District, Rashida Tlaib is giving most of the credit...
5th annual NAAMA walk for women’s cancer
August 22nd, 20080 One out of every four deaths in the U.S. is from cancer, making it the second leading cause of death in the U.S. More than one-third of these victims are women. On October 18, 2008 at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, the National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) will hold its fifth annual walk aimed to raise awareness...U.S. deserter facing deportation
HinzmanJeremy Hinzman, who deserted the U.S. army in 2004 to avoid being sent to Iraq, has been ordered to leave Canada by Sept. 23. It is uncertain if he will try a further appeal in the courts. In July, Robin Long, another deserter, was sent back to the U.S. Currently there are nine other men seeking refugee status...
Arab American beaten to death outside Detroit gas station
August 22nd, 20080 DETROIT — A 21-year-old Yemeni American was beaten to death Thursday morning at a Sunoco gas station on Detroit's southwest side. Maher Almaweri's family told local television news stations a group of men beat him to death at the gas station located at McGraw and Tarnow Roads. EMS arrived at the scene around 1 a.m. and...
Presidential candidate to celebrate Labor Day in Detroit
August 22nd, 20080 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney plans to visit Michigan over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1. The Green Party of Michigan is set to host a press conference for the former Congresswoman from Georgia at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the International Institute, 111 East Kirby in Detroit. The...
Priest irks community with bizarre, offensive comments about Islam
August 15th, 20080 Local religious leaders believe they've successfully convinced a local AM radio station to force a regular guest on one of its programs to tone down his intense, often strange commentaries critical of the Islamic faith. Egyptian Coptic priest Zakaria Botros, known around the world for his controversial theological rants about...
Dearborn Recreation Department Summer Theatre Fest presents Disney’s High School Musical
August 15th, 20080 DEARBORN — The Dearborn Recreation Department's Summer Theatre Fest program will present Disney's "High School Musical" on stage in the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center's Michael A. Guido Theater on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23, at 8 p.m. Reserved seating tickets are $15 and $10 per person and are available by phone at...
La Hookah Lounge spreads family’s love of good food
August 15th, 20080 WESTLAND, Mich. — When La Hookah Lounge first opened two weeks ago on Ford Road in Westland between Wayne and Wildwood Roads, passers-by didn't know what to make of it. Most thought it was a hangout spot for smoking hookah only, which shied many possible customers away. But once people started coming in and seeing that...
ADC seeks donations to continue construction
August 15th, 20080 DEARBORN — With mostly clear weather, summer is the best time of year for construction workers to make progress on their building projects. But in the case of the new American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) building on Chase Road near Ford Road, construction has been halted while the organization attempts to gather more......
Book makes good start, doesn’t go far enough
Years from now, when historians look back on this decade and try to understand the first years of the so-called "war on terror," any progress made will be determined by whether the narrative of the Muslim experience is included in this historiography. If it is, then Moustafa Bayoumi's book, "How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?" will...Opposition critic talks of Palestine and Israel
Bob RaeBob Rae, the opposition Liberal Party's foreign policy critic, spoke to an audience on Parliament Hill on August 6, at the invitation of the National Council of Canada Arab Relations and the Middle East Discussion Group. He made an important observation: Israelis to whom he spoke when he visited there recently were......
Businesses collaborate on Kitty Klassic Kruise adoption event
August 15th, 20080 DEARBORN — The Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter, along with six local businesses, invite everyone to "cruise on in" to the first annual Kitty Klassic on Saturday, August 16. The Kitty Klassic Kruise is a unique attempt to solve a seasonal problem: the Dearborn Animal Shelter is bursting at the seams with over 240 cats and...Businesses collaborate on Kitty Klassic Kruise adoption event
DEARBORN — The Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter, along with six local businesses, invite everyone to "cruise on in" to the first annual Kitty Klassic on Saturday, August 16. The Kitty Klassic Kruise is a unique attempt to solve a seasonal problem: the Dearborn Animal Shelter is bursting at the seams with over 240 cats and...
Series of break-ins concerns community
August 9th, 20080 A series of break-ins in a mostly-Arab American neighborhood in Southwest Detroit has citizens on edge, with residents claiming that local police aren't doing enough to keep their families safe. More than 12 burglaries have occurred in the past two weeks near the intersection of Lonyo and Dayton streets, which is close to the...
The might of incumbency: Candidates advance to November ballot
August 8th, 20080 DEARBORN – Arab American state congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib triumphed over eight other Democrats in Tuesday's primary election, garnering about 44 percent of the vote in her bid to represent Southwest Detroit residents in the 12th District. Dozens of young Arab Americans also won seats as precinct delegates for the......
Best Home Furnishings – literally!
August 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — Plenty of furniture stores have come and gone in the East Dearborn part of Michigan Avenue, but most customers have never seen a store quite like Best Home Furnishings. While most furniture stores offer products made of pressed wood that's heavy and susceptible to breaking, Best Home Furnishings, the month-old store...
Dearborn Mayor O’Reilly yet to appoint new police chief
August 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — The Police Department will remain under its current, established chain of command until Mayor Jack O’Reilly appoints a new Chief, according to city officials. The department was left without an individual leader last week when longtime Chief of Police Michael Celeski died of a heart attack on July 28. "The Mayor will......
Leaders get “REV’d up”
August 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — Arab American leaders from human service agencies across the country gathered in Dearborn last week for a conference aimed at communicating methods of educating, registering and turning out communities to vote. The event was part of the REV Campaign: Register, Educate, Vote, recently launched by the National Network for...A path out of the wilderness
WASHINGTON (IPS) — Helena Cobban's new book, "Re-Engage! America and the World After Bush," is not aimed at a target audience of officials, policy wonks and Washington elite think-tank types. So much is clear from a tagline running across the bottom of the cover: "An informed citizen's guide." But that doesn't mean that all the......
