DEARBORN - Some people need just one story to describe their life. Others need more than one life to recount all their thoughts and accomplishments. Michael Berry was not just a successful attorney, bright politician, or even public figure;...Local
When James Abourezk moved to Washington more than three decades ago — serving first as a congressman and then as the first Arab American to be elected to the United States Senate — his knowledge of what was going on in he Middle East was modest. "It wasn't an issue that anyone talked about very much back home in South Dakota," he...
Helen Thomas has been the epitome of journalistic integrity for over 57 years, serving as a correspondent and White House bureau chief for United Press International. She has covered every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy, and continues to be a dynamic leader in the Washington press. Her leadership among women in the press is...Local
DEARBORN — When Michael Husseini was one year old, his father wondered why he was rolling over rather than crawling like other children.
Michael was not a small child, his father Samy Husseini recalls, "but he was incapable even of riding a tricycle. I thought he was lazy, he needed someone to push him." At two, Michael was walking...
LANSING — In an effort to improve Michigan's foster care system, the Michigan House of Representatives this week passed reforms that bolster the rights of relatives who want to care for children entering foster care, give the state new tools to help locate relatives when children need to be placed in foster care, and help ensure that...Local
DEARBORN — Deputies of the Wayne County Sheriff's Internet Crimes Unit arrested a local schoolteacher who they say showed up for a meeting with whom he expected to be a 14-year-old boy for the purpose of having sex with him, Sheriff Warren C. Evans announced on Thursday, June 20.
Officers arrested the 37-year-old Dearborn resident,...
Radiologist Dr. Yahya Basha is a busy man. Visit his office and you'll find Hhim surrounded by assistants and swimming in phone calls, people constantly clamoring for his opinions on medicine and community affairs.
The founder and president of Basha Diagnostics, a multi-site diagnostic imaging company that competes with major...Local
Nancy Pelosi meeting with Syrian foriegn minister Walid Al Moualim Washington — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) this week welcomed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's efforts on her recent trip to the Middle East. Specifically, the nation's largest Arab-American grassroots organization said it viewed Speaker...
April 8th, 20070Offensive, inaccurate, demonizing depictions of Arabs in American media is one of the most frequently lamented, painful aspects of the Arab American experience. Most have only complained in helpless frustration.
But for the past 30 years, one green-eyed, soft-spoken, animated man from a polluted, working-class Pittsburgh-area steel...
Washington - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is currently accepting applications for the 2007 Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship. Dr. Shaheen is the world's foremost authority on media images of Arabs and the author of "Reel Bad Arabs," "Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture,"...
April 4th, 20070Professor Raji Rammuny has been teaching Arabic for nearly 50 years, and now, at 74, he is seeing what he calls the "Golden Age of Arabic and Islamic studies."
As coordinator of the Arabic program at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Michigan, Rammuny is watching his programs expand and his class rosters...
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Ed Deeb goes to where there's trouble, and fixes things. For decades Deeb has brought together groups in conflict, whether unions and businesses, businesses and government entities, business-owners and residents, or clashing ethnic communities.
"I'm a peacemaker. I make peace… The only way to make peace is to talk," said...
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The Syrian ambassador to the United States spoke in his usual candid style to attendees at a fundraising dinner for an active local student group in Dearborn on Friday, March 23. Ambassador Imad Moustapha was asked to keynote the second annual dinner of the Arab Student Union at University of Michigan-Dearborn because students...
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General shaking hands with Imad HamadDearborn — A senior U.S. military official reached out to the Arab American community on Monday, March 26, with a visit to Dearborn and a luncheon meeting with the editorial board of The Arab American News. Guests at the meeting from the community represented a variety of ethnic and religious...
