DEARBORN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS Dearborn High School (7-4) Last week: Lost to Southfield, 20-17 in overtime Dearborn Fordson (11-0) Last week: Beat Detroit Cody, 16-6 This week: Third round of playoffs vs. Detroit Southeastern at home, 7 p.m. FridayHealth conference draws 700 attendees
DEARBORN — The 5th National Conference on Health Issues in the Arab American Community drew in over 700 people from 15 Arab nations, 20 U.S. states, and 50 cities around the world. The conference discussed many common health concerns in the Arab American community such as the impact of tobacco use and cancer on the health of Arab...
Record turnout among Arab Americans
November 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — Ibtisam Ahmed, 38, voted for the first time on Tuesday. She became a U.S. citizen two years ago. She's been in the country for 18 years. "I felt like I was going to cry. I felt that I could actually do something," she said after voting. Ibtisam Ahmed, 38, enters her ballot for the first time on Tuesday at Woodworth...
Entire AAPAC slate emerges victorious
November 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — It was an historic triumph for the Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) on Election Day as every one of their 19 endorsements emerged victorious. Husband and wife Khaled and Hana Odeh vote at McDonald Elementary School on Tuesday. PHOTOS:...Playgrounds for Palestine: One marathon at a time
My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and I have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet. This doesn't even begin to convey half of the story of the punishment that my body has been subjected to in recent months. Why, you ask? Because I will join Susan Abulhawa,...
The Obama revolution
November 8th, 20080 Abraham Lincoln, another president from Illinois, fought a civil war that divided a nation and succeeded in uniting it again. But when he tried to take on the bankers, he got assassinated. John F. Kennedy took on Russia in the Cuban missile crisis, but when he took on the Feds, he got assassinated. They both were trying to finish a...Reading the subtext: Muslims and American politics
…all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. — The Virginia Statute of Muqtedar Khan Religious Freedom (1786) In this presidential election cycle, American Muslims became a...Said, Halloween treat, not a trick
The late Edward Said said that the West has an imagined, false picture of the East, which he called Orientalism. Halloween weekend was the occasion for a conference held jointly at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, dedicated to the thought of Edward Said, the Palestinian-American thinker and vocal advocate for the...
Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post of chief of staff
November 8th, 20080 During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel. Democratic presidential nominee...
Shake-up in Dearborn School Board
November 8th, 20080 Lane unseats Dulmage, Blackburn comes back strong DEARBORN — The Board of Education will have a new look on January 1, 2009, after the Arab American community played a key role swaying a heated local election. Former board member Mary Lane unseated incumbent Sharon Dulmage, receiving 13,698 votes to Dulmage's...
Nader seeks change in two party system
November 8th, 20080 DEARBORN — Presidential candidate Ralph Nader visited the University of Michigan-Dearborn on Friday afternoon of last week in an attempt to connect with local voters before the presidential election. A photo of Ralph Nader in The Michigan Journal sits in an empty section of a room as University of Michigan-Dearborn students,...
Gas station fuels election hopes
November 1st, 20080 DETROIT — The presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain have bombarded the public with images, slogans and soundbites for months, but in one Detroit neighborhood, even the corner gas station is covered with Obama logos, since its owners decided to repaint and rename the business after their favorite candidate three...War, economic collapse, peak oil and climate change
Is it writers' block, or is it that the world is in such a mess that it has simply short-circuited my mind? So many bad news scenarios present themselves on several fronts that I am somewhat amazed and dumbfounded. Is there any order, any sense to be found in the current insanity of war, economic collapse, peak oil, and climate...Nam, nehnu nastatyeh! (Yes, we can!)
GAZA CITY — This morning I walked to the Indian Ocean and made salt in defiance of the British occupation of India. This morning I marched in Selma, I stood down tanks in Tiananmen Square, and I helped tear down the Berlin Wall. This morning I became a Freedom Rider. The Freedom Riders of the 21st Century are sailing small boats into...Gitmo prisoners demand information from Canada
Two Guantanamo prisoners, a Mauritanian and an Algerian, who once lived for a short time in Montreal, are taking the RCMP and Canadian Security and Intelligence Agency (CSIS) to court to force them to provide details of interrogations. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Ahcene Zemiri were interrogated at Guantanamo by agents of the RCMP and CSIS......
Haddad to lead Dearborn police
November 1st, 20080 DEARBORN — Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, Jr. on Tuesday announced the selection of a new police chief, Ronald Haddad, who is a retired deputy chief of the Detroit Police Department and a law enforcement professional of 34 years. Newly appointed Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad TAAN file photo O'Reilly cited Haddad's...U.S. cutoff threat unlikely to save Iraq troop pact
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The threat by the George W. Bush administration last week to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not accept the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement has raised the stakes in the political-diplomatic struggle over the issue. An Iraqi woman speaks with U.S soldiers......
Forgive us our debts
Federal Reserve headquarters Four cowboys wanted to play a game of poker, but they didn't have a deck of cards. A banker offered to lend them a deck of cards, on the condition that each bring back 14 cards, and they had to leave their horses as collateral. How many cowboys get their horses back? This oldest trick in the...
Republican ad raises eyebrows
November 1st, 20080 In the final days before the election, a TV ad being run by the Michigan Republican Party in support of Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford Taylor, makes use of a dark image of a Middle Eastern male, associating a Dearborn man with terrorism. Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Cliff Taylor, who is being challanged this...
Newly anointed US citizens gear up to vote
November 1st, 20080 Waad Nakad, 21, of Livonia, took her oath of citizenship in August, but she doesn't feel any more American because of it. She's been in the US since age one, when her family came from Syria in 1988. Shadi Hajal, 35, of Canton, shows off his newfound American spirit after taking the oath of citizenship and registering to vote on...
Community members weigh in on election
November 1st, 20080 Thirty-nine year old Daad Katato, a Palestinian American political activist associated with American Muslims for Palestine, is voting for Cynthia McKinney in the upcoming election. Daad Katato Katato, of Troy, says "I'm thinking of voting for Cynthia McKinney because I feel the other two candidates are not fair to Arabs......
Activists question surge in ICE raids
After a rash of immigration detainments on Sept. 23 and 24, a number of family members and community organizations have complained that the sudden surge of arrests has served to intimidate and preoccupy immigrant communities just before the election, making people less likely to vote. The arrests were made during scheduled appointments...
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......
