Police break up protest and encampment on Wayne State University campus
June 1st, 20240 Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University and arrested 12 people. Tents and fences were previously set up on the lawn outside the Wayne State undergraduate library. Police in riot gear removed the fences and broke down the tents constructed last week, following several warnings issued, according to...
Dr. Ghada Beydoun: a trailblazer in the field of dentistry
June 1st, 20240 DEARBORN — Dr. Ghada Beydoun has embodied the American Dream, which fills the hearts of immigrants all over the world looking to build better lives for themselves and their families. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, she is a first-generation American and the first in her family to attend college. She told The Arab American...
Progress Michigan opposes DTE Energy rate hike amid persistent power outages
May 31st, 20240 LANSING — On Wednesday, Progress Michigan voiced its firm opposition to the recent proposal by DTE Energy for its nearly half-billion dollar rate increase highlighted in Bridge Michigan. This comes at a time when Michigan already ranks among the top three states for both the frequency and duration of power outages, despite residents...
Hamtramck City Council passes boycott, divest and sanction resolution against Israel
May 31st, 20240 The Hamtramck City Council passed Resolution 2024-51 to boycott, divest and sanction Israel 4-0 at its meeting on Tuesday evening. The only entirely Arab American city council in the country became the first in Michigan and one of the first around the nation to join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. “The BDS...
Michigan Bureau of Elections declares nine Michigan Congressional candidates’ primary ballot petitions invalid
May 31st, 20240 LANSING – Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's Office declared that nine Congressional candidates failed to submit enough valid petition signatures to make the primary ballot in August, according to reports released Friday afternoon, May 24. The determinations, if confirmed by the Board of State Canvassers next week, could whittle...
Police raid and remove Wayne State University’s pro-Palestinian encampment, students vow to return
May 31st, 20240 Wayne State University police removed a pro-Palestine encampment and arrested 12 people on Thursday morning. During a press conference after the removal of the encampment, WSU’s Muslim Coalition President Ali Hassan said arrests included students, a medic and a third party observer. In a call Thursday afternoon, University...
University of Michigan graduates walk out during commencements protesting for Palestine
May 24th, 20240 ANN ARBOR — Graduates at the University of Michigan walked out during the commencement ceremony, displaying their support for Palestinians. Students at institutions across the nation have engaged in forms of protest on their c0llege campuses over the last several weeks. The protesting graduates wore kaffiyehs and mortarboards and...
ACRL’s “Fight for Justice” gala recognizes five awardees who have impacted their communities
May 24th, 20240 DEARBORN – The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) held its twelfth annual “Fight for Justice” Gala on Thursday, May 16 at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center. The organization recognized five awardees whose efforts have significantly impacted Arab and Muslim communities. “This is not your average...
Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi honored by International Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Cities Initiative
May 24th, 20240 MONTREAL – The international Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Cities Initiative recently honored Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi as its 2024 U.S. Member of the Year. The award comes in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the organization's mission of promoting access to clean, safe and affordable water for all residents of the...
FLIP awards 31 high school graduates-bound to college and five teachers from Dearborn and Dearborn Heights
May 24th, 20240 Huntington Bank and The Arab American News awarded 31 college-bound Dearborn and Dearborn Heights graduating seniors $115,000 in scholarships at the Future Leaders In Progress (FLIP) Scholarship Dinner on Wednesday, May 22. FLIP also recognized five outstanding educators from Dearborn Public Schools and Crestwood Public Schools in...
Dearborn to enforce property maintenance requirements during upcoming Spring Sweep Week
May 24th, 20240 The city of Dearborn will kick off a two-week Spring Sweep Week campaign to educate on, survey and enforce property maintenance requirements among residents and businesses beginning Monday, May 20. The enforcement campaign will run through May 31. Spring Sweep Week is an annual effort led by the city’s Economic Development...
Detroit man charged in fatal road rage attack that claimed the life of Reda Saleh
May 17th, 20240 DETROIT – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged Desmond Burks, 33, of Detroit, with second degree murder in connection with a road rage incident that killed Reda Saleh, 67, of Dearborn. On April 17, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Detroit police officers were dispatched to intersection of West Chicago Street and Greenfield Road...
Detroit will host People’s Conference for Palestine from May 24-26 at Huntington Place
May 17th, 20240 DETROIT – Organizations, collectives, movement leaders, trade unionists, community members, students and intellectuals, artists and cultural workers, and activists will convene in Detroit from May 24-26 for the People’s Conference for Palestine. The conference comes as Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza completes seven months, with...
Henry Ford College student Soliman Touelh awarded national Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
May 17th, 20240 DEARBORN — The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF) has announced that Henry Ford College (HFC) student Soliman Touelh (pronounced "Twee-la") has been awarded the Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. “I was between classes at the HFC Honors Hub when I found out I was selected,” Touelh, of Dearborn Heights, said in a press...
Dearborn man gets 10-30 years in fatal 2023 shooting of 28-year-old Dearborn Heights resident
May 17th, 20241 DEARBORN – A Dearborn resident has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years for the fatal shooting of Ahmed Nasserdine, 28, a resident of Dearborn Heights on July 6, 2023, court records said. Zayed Albodour, 53, received the sentence Friday in Detroit from Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Bridget Hathaway on a count of second-degree murder......
Resilient Neighborhoods: “Labor of love” revives historic Hamtramck Stadium, creates community park space
May 17th, 20241 Historic Hamtramck Stadium is one of five home ballparks for a major Negro League team between 1920 and 1948 still standing in the U.S. The park opened in May 1930 as the home stadium for the Detroit Stars Negro League baseball team, Gary Gillette, president and founder of Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium and baseball scholar,...
Tensions rise between University of Michigan officials and pro-Palestinian student activists
May 17th, 20240 Photos and story by Andrew Mullin ANN ARBOR – The student encampment at the University of Michigan entered its fourth week on May 13, continuing despite the end of the semester, rising concerns about police raids and university pushback. The Gaza solidarity camp at the University Diag currently stands with dozens of tents, with......
More than 100 faculty and staff at Wayne State University support student protesters
May 10th, 20240 A previous version of this article cited a version of the 2003 BOG bylaws and said the president, chair and vice chair of the Board sets the agenda 14 days before the meeting. The updated 2021 bylaws state in section 1.1.3 that the president, chair and vice chair of the Board set the agenda within five days of the meeting. More than...
Gov. Whitmer pushes free community college plan at Livonia Career Technical Center
May 10th, 20240 LIVONIA — Michigan could be the first state in the nation to make preschool through community college free if Gov. Whitmer can convince state lawmakers to approve her plan as part of the state budget this summer. But that proposal — a key provision of her $80.7 billion budget plan — appears in jeopardy after the Democratic-led...
FLIP to award $111,500 in scholarships for 29 college-bound graduates from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights high schools
May 10th, 20240 Huntington Bank in partnership with The Arab American News will hold the FLIP scholarships 2024 Award Dinner on May 22 DEARBORN – For the third year in a row The Arab American News in partnership with Huntington Bank will distribute $111,500 in FLIP scholarships to 29 high school college-bound graduates from Dearborn and Dearborn...
Michigan Fuels, in conjunction with ExxonMobil, donates $15,000 to Dearborn Public Schools
May 8th, 20240 DEARBORN – Continuing an annual tradition of more than 30 years, Michigan Fuels – in partnership with ExxonMobil – donated $15,000 to Dearborn Public Schools, on Friday, April 26, in a ceremony at Fordson High School. “We are incredibly pleased and grateful to continue supporting our area high school students throughout......
“Our anger is righteous”: Hear students at U of M’s Gaza solidarity encampment in their own words
May 8th, 20241 By Andrew Mullen For months, student activists at the University of Michigan have called for their school to cut financial ties to the state of Israel, only to be met with rejection from university officials. However, the students refuse to be ignored. Following the lead of activists at Columbia University and other schools across the...
Biden plans to visit Detroit on May 19 to address NAACP dinner
May 6th, 20240 President Biden will return to Michigan this month to speak at the NAACP Detroit Branch's 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, his campaign confirmed Wednesday. The announcement came ahead of a planned Wednesday night campaign rally in Freeland, about 14 miles northwest of Saginaw, by former President Trump, the presumptive......
Three Arab American candidates challenge pro-Israel Democrats in Michigan’s primary
May 4th, 20240 Three vocal Arab Americans against the Israeli genocide in Gaza who have been demanding a ceasefire in the war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have filed petitions to challenge two Democratic members of Congress and a pro-Israel Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan. The candidates cited frustration over their...
Former Dearborn Qahwah House employee opens new location in Ohio
April 26th, 20240 COLUMBUS — Abdelrahman Yasen, a former employee of Qahwah House in Dearborn, has opened his own franchise in Columbus, Ohio with his brother Abdalziz, expanding the franchise to a new state. Located at 189 E Main Street, Columbus, Ohio, the coffee shop will be open to the public in roughly four weeks. Yasen, a Palestinian who......
